Flexible natural-language computing
interface built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
and NVIDIA technology enables people and computers to work together
creatively
OCI's high performance and
consumption-based pricing helps Adept scale
AUSTIN,
Texas, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Adept, a
machine learning research and product lab, is using Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure (OCI) and NVIDIA technology to develop a
universal AI teammate capable of performing a range of tasks people
execute on their computer or on the internet. Running thousands of
NVIDIA GPUs on clusters of OCI bare metal compute instances and
taking advantage of OCI's network bandwidth, Adept can train
large-scale AI and ML models faster and more economically than
before. As a result, Adept has been able to rapidly advance its
general intelligence roadmap and develop its first product – a rich
language interface for the tools knowledge workers use every day to
be productive and creative.
A Highly Scalable, Performant, and
Cost-Effective Platform for AI Innovation
With OCI as its preferred cloud platform, Adept obtains the
scale and high performance necessary to run massive AI models
without excessive compute costs. This has enabled Adept to develop
a highly flexible and dynamic natural-language interface for all
software that significantly streamlines the tasks knowledge workers
execute daily. As a result, users can ask their computer to perform
tedious, difficult, or abstract functions, as well as use the
interface to test creative ideas.
To fully support Adept with the compute capacity it required,
Oracle and NVIDIA customized their offerings to ensure Adept had
access to thousands of NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs needed to train
its complex models. Adept, which recently closed a $65 million funding round, is training a giant AI
model on OCI using NVIDIA's most powerful A100 GPUs connected with
best-of-breed RoCE network powered by NVIDIA (NICs).
"AI continues to rapidly grow in scope but until now, AI models
could only read and write text and images; they couldn't actually
execute actions such as designing 3D parts or fetching and
analyzing data," said David Luan,
chief executive officer, Adept. "With the scalability and computing
power of OCI and NVIDIA technology, we are training a neural
network to use every software application, website, and API in
existence – building on the capabilities that software makers have
already created. The universal AI teammate gives employees an
'extra set of hands' to create as fast as they think and reduce
time spent on manual tasks. This in turn will help their
organizations become more productive, and nimble in their decision
making."
"Adept has exciting, bold ambitions for the future of AI, and
we're honored that the company's team of AI and ML trailblazers
recognized OCI's ability to support highly innovative and
compute-heavy projects like Adept's universal AI assistant," said
Karan Batta, vice president, product
management, OCI. "With the combined computing power of OCI and
NVIDIA, innovators like Adept are poised to unleash the full
potential of AI as a technology that can transform how work is done
and make every knowledge worker in the world much more
productive."
"With brilliant minds from DeepMind, OpenAI, and other AI and ML
pioneers, Adept is building the next generation of user interfaces
for software applications," said Kari
Briski, vice president, AI and high-performance computing
(HPC) software development kits, NVIDIA. "By working with
Oracle to provide Adept with an industry-leading GPU engine and a
wide range of AI and ML software tools, we're making innovative AI
systems possible."
OCI Powers Next-Generation AI
Models
OCI's bare metal NVIDIA GPU instances offer startups like Adept
an HPC platform for applications that rely on machine learning,
image processing, and massively parallel HPC jobs. In addition, HPC
on OCI provides the elasticity and consumption-based costs of the
cloud, offering on-demand potential to scale tens of thousands of
cores simultaneously. As a result, with HPC on OCI, customers like
Adept gain access to powerful processors, fast and dense local
storage, high-throughput ultra-low-latency RDMA cluster networks,
and the tools to automate and run jobs seamlessly.
Additional Resources
- Learn more about OCI's NVIDIA GPU-powered offerings for AI
innovators
- Learn more about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Get started with the OCI Cloud Adoption Framework
About Oracle
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