Oracle partners with Cohere to launch secure and powerful generative AI services for businesses

Oracle has unveiled its plans to develop robust generative artificial intelligence (AI) services designed to assist organizations worldwide. This initiative aims to enable businesses to automate end-to-end processes, enhance decision-making capabilities, and elevate customer experiences. Oracle will collaborate with Cohere, an enterprise AI platform, to deliver native generative AI services that prioritize security, performance, and value, leveraging the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and its Supercluster capabilities.

Clay Magouyrk, Executive Vice President of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, emphasized the company’s unique position to offer a comprehensive, end-to-end generative AI platform, incorporating advanced security measures, top-notch data management solutions, and an extensive portfolio of cloud applications to address diverse business challenges. Magouyrk expressed confidence in the partnership with Cohere, enabling customers to seamlessly integrate generative AI into their operations. By utilizing Cohere’s foundational models, businesses can securely train their specific models with proprietary data, deploy them using OCI’s AI infrastructure, and swiftly witness the resulting benefits within their applications.

Under the collaboration, Cohere will train, construct, and deploy its generative AI models on OCI. Oracle’s OCI is well-equipped for AI workloads, boasting unparalleled performance and cost-effectiveness in GPU cluster technology, with an impressive capacity of over 16K H100 GPUs per cluster. This infrastructure also offers low latency and high bandwidth RDMA network capabilities, facilitating accelerated training of large language models (LLMs) while simultaneously reducing costs.

Martin Kon, President, and COO of Cohere, emphasized the shared focus on data security, customizable models, and enabling enterprises to derive business value. Kon highlighted the collaborative efforts of Oracle and Cohere in accelerating global AI initiatives, driving increased value, and ushering in automation that maximizes business success while ensuring data security and privacy.

Moreover, Cohere’s models will be seamlessly integrated into Oracle’s comprehensive portfolio of cloud applications, including Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, Oracle NetSuite, and industry-specific applications. By embedding Cohere’s language models into these business applications, Oracle enables customers to rapidly and securely deploy generative AI to tackle their most pressing challenges.

The amalgamation of Oracle’s extensive cloud application portfolio, unparalleled data management expertise, best-in-class AI infrastructure, and Cohere’s advanced large language models offers several key benefits:

1. Unparalleled data security, privacy, and governance: OCI’s generative AI service empowers customers with complete control and ownership of their data. Unlike other offerings, Oracle’s generative AI services maintain strict segregation of customer data, preserving each business’s competitive advantage. Tools for accessing data provenance and lineage will also be provided.

2. Powerful and high-performing models: Oracle’s generative AI services leverage Cohere’s state-of-the-art foundational LLMs, customizable and further enhanced using Oracle’s industry knowledge and data insights. Customers can refine these models using their proprietary data to achieve higher accuracy in specific business use cases.

3. Embedded generative AI services: By integrating generative AI capabilities across its cloud application portfolio, including ERP, HCM, SCM, and CX, Oracle empowers customers to leverage the latest innovations within their existing business processes. Oracle will introduce new models for healthcare and public safety and embed generative AI throughout its industry-specific applications. These AI services will enhance knowledge workers’ productivity and efficiency, freeing up time for creativity and value-added tasks while improving the overall employee experience. Additionally, Oracle will incorporate generative AI capabilities into its database portfolio, similar to its successful integration of machine learning features in Oracle Database and MySQL HeatWave.

4. Availability of generative AI wherever needed: Customers can utilize the generative AI service in OCI, taking advantage of the scalability and customization options of public cloud solutions. They can create private model endpoints and combine generative capabilities with on-premises data and applications by leveraging generative AI services in their own data centers.

Oracle’s partnership with Cohere marks a significant step toward delivering secure, high-performance generative AI services to businesses worldwide. This collaboration aims to empower organizations to optimize their operations, achieve business value, and unlock new levels of automation, all while prioritizing data security and privacy.