Intel Forms Generative AI Company With Investment Firm

<p><strong>SANTA CLARA &amp&semi; BOCA RATON&comma; FL<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; Intel Corp&period; is partnering with investment firm DigitalBridge Group to form Articul8 AI&comma; an independent company offering enterprise customers a full-stack&comma; vertically-optimized and secure generative artificial intelligence &lpar;GenAI&rpar; software platform&period; The platform delivers AI capabilities that keep customer data&comma; training and inference within the enterprise security perimeter&period; The platform also provides customers the choice of cloud&comma; on-prem or hybrid deployment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Based in Palo Alto&comma; Articul8 was created with intellectual property &lpar;IP&rpar; and technology developed at Intel&comma; and the two companies will remain strategically aligned on go-to-market opportunities and collaborate on driving GenAI adoption in the enterprise&period; Arun Subramaniyan&comma; formerly vice president and general manager in Intel’s Data Center and AI Group&comma; has assumed leadership of Articul8 as its CEO&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;With its deep AI and HPC domain knowledge and enterprise-grade GenAI deployments&comma; Articul8 is well positioned to deliver tangible business outcomes for Intel and our broader ecosystem of customers and partners&period; As Intel accelerates AI everywhere&comma; we look forward to our continued collaboration with Articul8&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Pat Gelsinger&comma; Intel CEO&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>DigitalBridge Ventures&comma; the venture initiative of DigitalBridge&comma; served as lead investor of Articul8&period; In addition&comma; Intel&comma; along with a syndicate of established venture investors&comma; including Fin Capital&comma; Mindset Ventures&comma; Communitas Capital&comma; GiantLeap Capital&comma; GS Futures and Zain Group&comma; has taken an equity stake in the company&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Every global enterprise today is challenged to integrate GenAI capabilities into their workflows&period; Articul8 has built a scalable and easy-to-deploy GenAI software platform that is already enabling enterprises to unlock value from their proprietary data&period; We see GenAI as a pivotal force driving digital infrastructure&comma; and we are pleased to collaborate with Intel to support Articul8’s growth&comma;” said Marc Ganzi&comma; DigitalBridge CEO&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Articul8 offers a turnkey GenAI software platform that delivers speed&comma; security and cost-efficiency to help large enterprise customers operationalize and scale AI&period; The platform was launched and optimized on Intel hardware architectures&comma; including Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Intel® Gaudi® accelerators&comma; but will support a range of hybrid infrastructure alternatives&period; Following the technology’s early <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;intel&period;com&sol;content&sol;www&sol;us&sol;en&sol;newsroom&sol;news&sol;intel-bcg-collaborate-enterprise-generative-ai&period;html" rel&equals;"nofollow" shape&equals;"rect">deployment at Boston Consulting Group<&sol;a> &lpar;BCG&rpar;&comma; the team has scaled the platform to enterprise customers in industry segments requiring high levels of security and specialized domain knowledge&comma; including financial services&comma; aerospace&comma; semiconductors and telecommunications&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;GenAI is at the forefront of our clients’ business strategy and needs&period; Our collaboration began nearly two years ago while the venture was still in the incubation stage at Intel&period; Since then&comma; we have deployed Articul8 products for multiple clients seeking production-ready platforms with rapid time to market&comma;” said Rich Lesser&comma; global chair of BCG&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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