Contextual AI And Google Cloud Partner To Bring Generative AI To The Enterprise
Google News, Monday, August 21,2023
Contextual AI, the company building AI that works for work, today announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud as its preferred cloud provider to build, run, and scale its growing business and to train its large language models (LLMs) for the enterprise.
Contextual AI came out of stealth mode in June 2023 to build the next generation of foundation models that provide fully customizable, trustworthy, privacy-aware AI that lets companies focus on the work that matters. The company selected Google Cloud for its leadership and open approach to generative AI, as well as the comprehensiveness of its compute infrastructure, purpose-built for AI/ML.
AI workloads require large amounts of time-consuming computation, both to train the underlying machine learning models and to serve those models once they are trained. As part of the partnership, Contextual AI will build and train its LLMs with the choice and flexibility offered through Google Cloud's extensive portfolio of GPU VMs, specifically A3 VMs and A2 VMs, which are based on the NVIDIA H100 and A100 Tensor Core GPUs, respectively. Contextual AI will also leverage Google Cloud's custom AI accelerators, Tensor Processor Units (TPUs), to build its next generation of LLMs.