Nutanix Launches AI Partner Program to Accelerate Delivery of Complete AI Solutions

Nutanix has unveiled its new AI Partner Program, designed to streamline AI implementation and accelerate customer outcomes. By collaborating with AI leaders such as DataRobot, Codeium, Pryon, and others, Nutanix aims to assist customers with key enterprise use cases including chatbots, document/content search, code generation, model hallucination detection, and MLOps. This strategic initiative is expected to help businesses quickly derive value from AI investments, boost productivity, reduce waste, and enhance the end-user experience.

Investing in the Future of AI

The enterprise applications landscape for generative AI is projected to reach a $1.3 trillion market size by 2032, indicating significant growth potential. Despite this, many organizations are in the early stages of exploring these opportunities and require guidance on how to maximize the benefits presented by AI. While there are numerous options for both generative and predictive AI using public cloud services, fewer alternatives exist for on-premises inference solutions, especially for sectors with stringent regulations such as government and financial services.

In response to this need, Nutanix introduced its GPT-in-a-Box™ solution in August 2023. This breakthrough development was designed to offer customer choice and simplify AI deployment and management. GPT-in-a-Box extends Nutanix’s streamlined operations, control, and security to core and edge AI use cases, featuring an optimal infrastructure and software services for building and deploying AI applications. The latest version, GPT-in-a-Box 2.0, further simplifies the operationalization of AI by integrating an inference endpoint with a comprehensive set of capabilities needed for enterprise-scale AI applications, including hardware lifecycle management, GPU and CPU certification, high-performance storage, a Kubernetes engine, telemetry, and troubleshooting insights.

Developing a Diverse AI Ecosystem with Industry-Leading Partners

As the AI/ML industry landscape continues to evolve, enterprises require confidence not only in AI solutions but also in the underlying infrastructure. Faced with a sprawling marketplace for AI solutions, Nutanix customers can now eliminate the guesswork from AI implementation thanks to a set of validated full-stack solutions built in collaboration with best-of-breed AI companies across the globe.

The Nutanix AI Partner Program includes companies specializing in all foundational elements necessary for effective AI solutions at an enterprise scale:

1. Generative AI Industry Applications Companies leveraging AI technology, including Large Language Models (LLMs) and other AI models, to develop business applications for use cases like enterprise search, code generation, image recognition, and more.
2. Model Operations (LLM and ML Ops) Companies focusing on the operationalization and management of AI models throughout their lifecycle. From development and training to deployment and monitoring, these companies provide tools and platforms to streamline the process of building and maintaining AI models at scale.
3. Compute Infrastructure Companies specializing in providing the necessary hardware and software infrastructure to support AI and ML workloads. This includes high-performance computing clusters, GPU servers, compute optimization solutions, and cloud-based AI services.
4. AI Consulting and Data Services Partners Companies working with Nutanix customers to deliver AI advisory services, data preparation and transformation, model customization and optimization, and AI application development.

Industry Insights

Debanjan Saha, CEO of DataRobot, expressed enthusiasm about the partnership: “We’re committed to helping our customers confidently build, operate, and govern AI. Partnering with Nutanix to deliver the GPT-in-a-Box solution empowers organizations to accelerate their path to AI value with enterprise-grade security, performance, and oversight.”

Rahul Jadhav, Co-founder and CTO of Accuknox, highlighted the security aspect: “AccuKnox Zero Trust CNAPP is a Gen-AI-powered Cloud Security Software Platform that helps secure GenAI workloads running on Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box. We’re excited to help Nutanix customers solve for the end-to-end ‘Build to Runtime’ security of their Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for all their GenAI applications.”

Yaron Singer, CEO of Robust Intelligence, remarked on the evolving AI landscape: “Nutanix’s recent launch of GPT-in-a-Box marks an evolution in the delivery of secure AI to enterprise customers. Nutanix’s focus on delivering a complete Fortune 100 solution aligns with the strategic discussions we’re having with these large enterprises surrounding our ability to accelerate their respective GenAI strategies.”

The Nutanix AI Partner Program is set to revolutionize the AI implementation process, providing businesses with the tools and partnerships necessary to thrive in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.