NVIDIA's speedy AI applications top Oracle Cloud updates

Oracle's CloudWorld conference, held last week, featured a few new announcements in regards to leading large artificial intelligence and edge services, and a high-profile partnership between Oracle and NVIDIA continues the quest to make AI adoption easier as a service. Oracle Cloud also has some new applications in manufacturing and healthcare, and B2B commerce gets its own custom product. See our takes on the news from the conference below. AI from NVIDIA's accelerated computing stack is coming to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as an expansion to the two organizations' existing partnership. Specifically, OCI users will now have the opportunity to access thousands of NVIDIA GPUs, including the A100 Tensor Core GPU. Advertised as the world's fastest memory bandwidth, the A100 can run at over 2 terabytes per second and is suitable for the largest models and datasets.