Teradata Makes Real-World GenAI Easier, Speeds Business Value
TERADATA POSSIBLE – Teradata (NYSE: TDC) today announced new capabilities for VantageCloud Lake and ClearScape Analytics that make it possible for enterprises to easily implement and see immediate ROI from generative AI (GenAI) use cases.
As GenAI moves from idea to reality, enterprises are increasingly interested in a more comprehensive AI strategy that prioritizes practical use cases known for delivering more immediate business value – a critical benefit when 84 percent of executives expect ROI from AI initiatives within a year. With the advances in the innovation of large language models (LLMs), and the emergence of small and medium models, AI providers can offer fit-for-purpose open-source models to provide significant versatility across a broad spectrum of use cases, but without the high cost and complexity of large models.
By adding bring-your-own LLM (BYO-LLM), Teradata customers can take advantage of small or mid-sized open LLMs, including domain-specific models. In addition to these models being easier to deploy and more cost-effective overall, Teradata’s new features bring the LLMs to the data (versus the other way around) so that organizations can also minimize expensive data movement and maximize security, privacy and trust.
Teradata also now provides customers with the flexibility to strategically leverage either GPUs or CPUs, depending on the complexity and size of the LLM. If required, GPUs can be used to offer speed and performance at scale for tasks like inferencing and model fine-tuning, both of which will be available on VantageCloud Lake. Teradata’s collaboration with NVIDIA, also announced today, includes the integration of the NVIDIA AI full-stack accelerated computing platform, which includes NVIDIA NIM, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise for the development and deployment of GenAI applications, into the Vantage platform to accelerate trusted AI workloads large and small.
“Teradata customers want to swiftly move from exploration to meaningful application of generative AI,” said Hillary Ashton, Chief Product Officer at Teradata. “ClearScape Analytics’ new BYO-LLM capability, combined with VantageCloud Lake’s integration with the full-stack NVIDIA AI accelerated computing platform, means enterprises can harness the full potential of GenAI more effectively, affordably and in a trusted way. With Teradata, organizations can make the most of their AI investments and drive real, immediate business value.”