Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerators Witness First Major Adoption By IBM, Expected To Be Available By Early 2025

Intel has announced a major partnership with IBM on the Gaudi 3 AI accelerators, marking the first "formal" adoption of the AI accelerator by a mainstream cloud service provider.

Intel To Collaborate With IBM On Enterprise AI As The Firm Orders Gaudi 3 AI Accelerators & 5th Gen Xeon CPUs

[Press Release]: IBM and Intel have announced a collaboration to deploy IntelGaudi 3 AI accelerators as a service on IBM Cloud. This offering, which is expected to be available in early 2025, aims to help more cost-effectively scale enterprise AI and drive innovation underpinned with security and resiliency. This collaboration will also enable support for Gaudi 3 within IBM's watsonx AI and data platform. IBM Cloud is the first cloud service provider (CSP) to adopt Gaudi 3, and the offering will be available for both hybrid and on-premise environments.

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Why It Matters: ​While generative AI has the potential to accelerate transformation, the required compute power needed emphasizes the importance of availability, performance, cost, energy efficiency, and security as top priorities for enterprises. Through this collaboration, Intel and IBM aim to lower the total cost of ownership to leverage and scale AI, while enhancing performance.

Gaudi 3, integrated with 5th Gen Xeon, supports enterprise AI workloads in the cloud and data centers, providing customers with visibility and control over their software stack, simplifying workload and application management. IBM Cloud and Gaudi 3 aim to help customers more cost-effectively scale enterprise AI workloads, while prioritizing performance, security, and resiliency.

For generative AI inferencing workloads, IBM plans to enable support for Gaudi 3 within IBM's watsonx AI and data platform, providing watsonx clients with additional AI infrastructure resources for scaling their AI workloads across hybrid cloud environments, helping to