Oracle Announces Uptick in Adoption for AI Training and Inferencing

Oracle announced that AI innovators across the world are using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI infrastructure and OCI Supercluster to train AI models and deploy AI inference and applications.

Companies such as Fireworks AI, Hedra, Numenta, Soniox, and hundreds of other leading AI innovators have selected OCI for its scalability, performance, cost efficiency, choice of compute instances, and control over where to run their AI workloads, according to Oracle.

With OCI AI infrastructure, AI companies gain access to high-performance GPU clusters and the scalable computing power needed for AI training, AI inference, digital twins, and massively parallel HPC applications.

“Among AI innovators, OCI has rapidly become the destination of choice for training and inferencing needs of all sizes,” said Chris Gandolfo, executive vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and AI. “OCI AI infrastructure delivers ultra high-speed networking, optimized storage, and cutting-edge GPUs that AI companies rely on to power the next wave of innovation.”

Fireworks AI is an inference platform that empowers developers and businesses to build highly optimized and production-ready generative AI applications, serving over 100 state-of-the-art open models in text, image, audio, embedding, and multi-modal formats.

Fireworks AI uses OCI Compute bare metal instances accelerated by NVIDIA Hopper GPUs and OCI Compute with AMD MI300X GPUs to help it serve over two trillion inference tokens daily on its platform and scale its services globally.

Hedra, an AI-driven video creation company, enables users to create videos with life-like characters. By deploying its multimodal foundation models for generative image, video, and audio on OCI Compute bare metal instances accelerated by NVIDIA Hopper GPUs, Hedra reduced its GPU costs, experienced faster training speeds, and reduced its model iteration time.

Numenta is an AI technology company focused on maximizing the performance and efficiency of deep learning systems. By using OCI Compute bare metal instances accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs, Numenta gained access to a range of reliable and high-performance training instances, achieving faster training speeds and increased cycles of learning.

“OCI provides the high-performance infrastructure and strong operational support we need to push the boundaries of AI without compromising speed or accuracy,” said Dan Steere, CEO, Numenta. “With OCI, we’ve been able to confidently accelerate the development of our next-generation technology, taking significant steps forward in Efficient Intelligence.”

Soniox, an AI company at the forefront of audio and speech AI, pioneers foundational AI models for audio, speech, and language comprehension. With its new universal multilingual speech AI model hosted on OCI, Soniox uses OCI Compute bare metal instances accelerated by NVIDIA Hopper GPUs to train its model to seamlessly recognize and understand speech across 60 languages in real-time with low latency and higher accuracy.

“A high-performance infrastructure that provides improved accuracy, speed, and cost efficiency was top-of-mind when selecting a cloud provider to support our growth,” said Klemen Simonic, founder and CEO, Soniox. “OCI gives us access to the latest AI innovations that allow us to push the boundaries of speech recognition and audio understanding while significantly reducing deployment time and operational costs.”