Oracle's new offerings bring AI to your data, and manage it too

Database giant Oracle wants you to know you'll probably have a better experience with generative artificial intelligence if it doesn't involve moving your data from where it lives -- which could very likely be inside an existing Oracle database -- especially if you're an enterprise user. On Monday, at a partner event in Dubai, Oracle announced the general availability of OCI Generative AI Services, a managed service for AI first offered in beta back in September. The company also unveiled two new offerings, still in beta: OCI Gen AI Agents and OCI Data Science AI Quick Actions. The company makes the pitch that building an enterprise generative AI application on top of the existing data store is going to be both more effective in terms of using unique data, but also more economical compared with buying lots of additional infrastructure. The acronym "OCI" refers to Oracle's Oracle Cloud Infrastructure; that is, all the network and compute resources, and attendant software such as the Oracle Autonomous Database, that the company uses in data centers throughout the world to deliver cloud services.