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TECHx
16-06-2025
- Business
- TECHx
VAST Data Unveils AI OS to Power Evolving AI Agents
Home » Tech Value Chain » Global Brands » VAST Data Unveils AI OS to Power Evolving AI Agents VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, has announced a complete data and compute platform that enables continuous AI intelligence evolution. The VAST AI OS, integrated with NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NeMo microservices, powers a self-optimizing AI flywheel. This creates a unified environment where AI pipelines can learn, adapt, and improve at scale. The platform delivers: A converged software solution for data management, database services, and AI compute orchestration. AgentEngine, a tool offering feedback by mapping complex agent-data interactions through production logs. This approach allows enterprises to identify and adjust key performance elements, boosting model accuracy and learning speed. Jeff Denworth, Co-Founder of VAST Data, said the solution supports businesses building 'thinking machines' that fine-tune in real time and collaborate to generate new outcomes. By integrating NVIDIA's software and hardware within the VAST AI OS, the company enables customers to manage AI agents and data with security, governance, and service tools. As AI moves into real-time, always-on infrastructure, enterprises require systems that evolve with each data point while addressing security and governance for decentralized pipelines and agent interactions. This collaboration enables automated AI workflows from ingestion to inference and retraining within the VAST AI Operating System. CACEIS, one of Europe's largest asset servicing firms, is among the first adopters. In partnership with VAST and NVIDIA, it is exploring a real-time AI platform that: Captures and analyzes 100% of client meetings. Instantly generates meeting minutes and insights. Integrates anonymized data into a secure CRM. The platform features an end-to-end security model to protect privacy and ensure data integrity. CACEIS is also using VAST's AgentEngine with NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint to develop AI agents that support relationship managers and reveal business opportunities. These agents will use NeMo microservices to refine models through continuous feedback and shared intelligence. Kari Briski, Vice President of Generative AI Software at NVIDIA, showcased this capability at GTC Europe in Paris. The demo highlighted the role of data flywheels in enhancing system intelligence. Briski stated that CACEIS is a pioneer in building agentic AI systems with NVIDIA and VAST to boost productivity in financial services. VAST Data's solution represents a shift from static models to dynamic AI ecosystems. These systems require scalable infrastructure and strict governance to support evolving intelligent agents across enterprise environments.


Mint
11-06-2025
- Business
- Mint
Nvidia teams up with Perplexity and Mistral AI: How will it impact Europe's AI infrastructure push?
Nvidia has announced new collaborations with AI firms Perplexity and Mistral AI as part of a broad initiative to strengthen artificial intelligence infrastructure and language model development across Europe. The announcement was made during an AI conference in Paris, where the US-based chipmaker outlined its strategy to support regional AI growth with both hardware and software solutions. In partnership with search firm Perplexity, Nvidia will work with over a dozen AI companies in Europe and the Middle East to refine their technologies and help distribute them to local businesses. This effort will involve the development of reasoning models—AI systems capable of handling more complex tasks—in various European languages, where training data is often limited. Mistral AI, a French startup, is joining forces with Nvidia to launch a new service called Mistral Compute, which will run on 18,000 of Nvidia's Grace Blackwell chips. The service will be based in the company's data centre in Essonne, France, with plans to expand across the continent. The aim is to facilitate domestic AI computing capabilities and reduce dependence on overseas infrastructure. Jensen Huang, Nvidia's chief executive, said that Europe urgently needs to scale up its AI infrastructure if it wants to stay competitive globally. The firm is supporting this push by partnering with cloud and telecom providers and enabling small-scale access to its AI accelerators—specialised chips used to train and deploy AI models. Kari Briski, Nvidia's vice president for generative AI software, said the company is producing synthetic data in low-resource European languages to help train more robust local models. "We're doing a lot of synthetic data generation and translating our reasoning datasets so they can be used in training," she said. Nvidia's collaboration includes firms in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and Sweden. Perplexity will support the deployment and accessibility of these models, ensuring they can be used by local enterprises for tasks such as content research and data analysis. The company's CEO, Aravind Srinivas, noted that Germany is already its second-largest market by revenue, underscoring the growing demand for regionally tailored AI services. As part of the broader rollout, Nvidia also confirmed that its AI Lepton service, which connects developers to essential compute infrastructure, will now include participation from AWS and Mistral. The company added that 'AI factories'—large-scale data centres for training and operating AI models—are being developed in over 20 European locations, several of which will be 'gigafactories' housing more than 100,000 chips. In the UK, companies such as Nebius Group and Nscale Global Holdings are also set to deploy thousands of Nvidia's AI semiconductors, while other countries, including Italy and Armenia, are preparing to upgrade their hardware systems. Despite Europe having over 1.5 million AI developers and nearly 10,000 businesses involved in Nvidia's Inception startup programme, the continent still lags behind the US in terms of infrastructure investment. Nvidia said it plans to triple the region's AI hardware capacity next year and increase total computing power tenfold. (With inputs from Bloomberg and Reuters)


Time of India
11-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Nvidia, Perplexity partner with European firms to boost local AI models
Nvidia and artificial intelligence search firm Perplexity on Wednesday said they are partnering with more than a dozen AI firms in Europe and the Middle East to refine those firms' AI technologies and distribute them to local businesses. Nvidia said it will work with model makers in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and Sweden to help make AI models in local languages become what are called reasoning models , which are capable of carrying out more complicated tasks. AI technologies built in English and Chinese have started to shift to that technology, but that transition is more difficult in languages where less training data is available. Kari Briski, vice president of generative AI software for enterprise at Nvidia, said the company will help model makers generate new data - known as synthetic data - in local languages to help improve them. "We're doing a lot of synthetic data generation to bring to these low-resource languages and translating our reasoning data so that they can train on it," Briski said in an interview Tuesday. "Europe needs strong models that reflect each nation's unique language and culture." Live Events Once those local models are trained, Perplexity will help distribute them in Europe, where businesses can run them in local data centers and use them to carry out business tasks such as researching a new topic. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said Germany is already Perplexity's second largest market by revenue. Discover the stories of your interest Blockchain 5 Stories Cyber-safety 7 Stories Fintech 9 Stories E-comm 9 Stories ML 8 Stories Edtech 6 Stories "That's the kind of system we are heading to in the future, where models are basically doing a few hours' worth of work in one single prompt," Srinivas said. The deal was part of a number of announcements Nvidia made at an AI conference in Paris on Wednesday. Nvidia and Perplexity did not disclose any financial terms of the deal.


The Star
11-06-2025
- Business
- The Star
Nvidia, Perplexity partner with European firms to boost local AI models
A NVIDIA logo is shown at SIGGRAPH 2017 in Los Angeles, California, U.S. July 31, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Nvidia and artificial intelligence search firm Perplexity on Wednesday said they are partnering with more than a dozen AI firms in Europe and the Middle East to refine those firms' AI technologies and distribute them to local businesses. Nvidia said it will work with model makers in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and Sweden to help make AI models in local languages become what are called reasoning models, which are capable of carrying out more complicated tasks. AI technologies built in English and Chinese have started to shift to that technology, but that transition is more difficult in languages where less training data is available. Kari Briski, vice president of generative AI software for enterprise at Nvidia, said the company will help model makers generate new data - known as synthetic data - in local languages to help improve them. "We're doing a lot of synthetic data generation to bring to these low-resource languages and translating our reasoning data so that they can train on it," Briski said in an interview Tuesday. "Europe needs strong models that reflect each nation's unique language and culture." Once those local models are trained, Perplexity will help distribute them in Europe, where businesses can run them in local data centers and use them to carry out business tasks such as researching a new topic. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said Germany is already Perplexity's second largest market by revenue. "That's the kind of system we are heading to in the future, where models are basically doing a few hours' worth of work in one single prompt," Srinivas said. The deal was part of a number of announcements Nvidia made at an AI conference in Paris on Wednesday. Nvidia and Perplexity did not disclose any financial terms of the deal. (Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; Editing by Sam Holmes)


Reuters
11-06-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Nvidia, Perplexity partner with European firms to boost local AI models
SAN FRANCISCO, June 11 (Reuters) - Nvidia and artificial intelligence search firm Perplexity on Wednesday said they are partnering with more than a dozen AI firms in Europe and the Middle East to refine those firms' AI technologies and distribute them to local businesses. Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab said it will work with model makers in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and Sweden to help make AI models in local languages become what are called reasoning models, which are capable of carrying out more complicated tasks. AI technologies built in English and Chinese have started to shift to that technology, but that transition is more difficult in languages where less training data is available. Kari Briski, vice president of generative AI software for enterprise at Nvidia, said the company will help model makers generate new data - known as synthetic data - in local languages to help improve them. "We're doing a lot of synthetic data generation to bring to these low-resource languages and translating our reasoning data so that they can train on it," Briski said in an interview Tuesday. "Europe needs strong models that reflect each nation's unique language and culture." Once those local models are trained, Perplexity will help distribute them in Europe, where businesses can run them in local data centers and use them to carry out business tasks such as researching a new topic. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said Germany is already Perplexity's second largest market by revenue. "That's the kind of system we are heading to in the future, where models are basically doing a few hours' worth of work in one single prompt," Srinivas said. The deal was part of a number of announcements Nvidia made at an AI conference in Paris on Wednesday. Nvidia and Perplexity did not disclose any financial terms of the deal.