VMware and Nvidia say AI is maturing

VMware and Nvidia have announced a pact at VMworld to make artificial intelligence (AI) a mass market. AI is entering a phase of maturity where its early adopters have discovered most of the glitches and devised a way to work around them. So virtual pioneer VMware has collaborated with graphics processing giant Nvidia (now part of Mellanox) to create a standard baseline platform on which all AI projects can be launched. Until now, the installation of AI has been far too complicated to attempt for any company that doesn't have global reach and the IT budgets to match. Companies need huge amounts of time and money to create the computing and network infrastructure on which to run all the software, host the data and process all the information, said Krish Prasad, VMware's cloud business SVP and general manager.