VMWare Partners with Nvidia Corp to Develop AI For Businesses

On August 22, VMware announced a new set of software tools developed in collaboration with Nvidia Corp aimed at businesses that want to develop generative artificial intelligence in their own data centres rather than the cloud.

VMware, which is on the verge of being acquired by chipmaker Broadcom for $69 billion, creates software that corporations use to run their privately owned data centres. For more than two decades, businesses have used VMware's tools to divide computing power in central processor chips, which are the brains of traditional servers.

On Aug 22, the company released a new set of tools help designed to manage Nvidia chips, which dominate the market for AI systems that can read and write text in human-like ways. Companies like Microsoft Corp, for example, are offering cloud-based systems that can read through a business team's emails and chats and help generate a short update on a the team's progress.

VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram told Reuters that businesses are interested in the technology for everything from helping software developers write code faster to writing legal contracts faster. However, when the data is sensitive, some VMware customers prefer to do the work in their own data centres.

"Consider the following use case: I want it to read all of my legal contracts so that I can generate new contracts more quickly." "Obviously, that will be extremely secretive - you don't want that data leaking anywhere," Raghuram explained.

The new tools will be available next year, according to VMware. The company declined to say how much it will cost, other than to say that it will be based on how many Nvidia chips the customer uses.