Oracle and Nvidia expand AI partnership

Oracle and Nvidia have extended their partnership to help speed customer adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) services. As part of the deal, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), which is Oracle's cloud service, will beef up the infrastructure with tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs, both the Ampere A100 currently on the market and the upcoming Hopper H100. Oracle will also add Nvidia's AI software stack that supports AI training and deep learning. This includes an upcoming release of Nvidia AI Enterprise software with access to Nvidia's AI development and deployment platform that provides processing engines for each step of the AI workflow, from data processing and AI model training to simulation and large-scale deployment. "Our expanded alliance will deliver the best of both companies' expertise to help customers across industries--from healthcare and manufacturing to telecommunications and financial services--overcome the multitude of challenges they face," said Safra Catz, CEO of Oracle, in a statement.