Linux Foundation launches new industry push to develop better generative AI for enterprises
The Linux Foundation has unveiled a new initiative designed to improve the state of generative AI for enterprises.
The LF AI & Data Foundation’s latest venture is the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA). It is positioned as a Sandbox project and serves as a testing ground for the Foundation’s latest ideas and technologies.
More specifically, it has the support of leading companies involved in the development and implementation of AI, including Anyscale, Cloudera, DataStax, Domino Data Lab, Hugging Face, Intel, KX, MariaDB Foundation, Minio, Qdrant, Red Hat, SAS, VMware, Yellowbrick Data, Zilliz and more.
Industry leaders are committed to better GenAI
In a press releaseAccording to the organization, the primary goal of the LF AI & Data Foundation is to foster an open AI and data community, which it says will help “drive open source innovation in the AI and data domains” through better collaboration capabilities.
Ibrahim Haddad, Executive Director of LF AI & Data, expressed his excitement about the project’s potential to accelerate AI integration across enterprises: “We are pleased to welcome OPEA to LF AI & Data with the commitment to open source, standardized , to offer modular and heterogeneous solutions. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines for enterprises with a focus on open model development, hardened and optimized support of various compilers and toolchains.”
Haddad added: “OPEA will unlock new possibilities in AI by creating a granular, composable framework that is at the forefront of the technology stacks.”
The Linux Foundation said the launch of the new initiative is very timely, adding that recent rapid developments in GenAI technology have led to a fragmentation of tools, techniques and solutions that need to be addressed.
By standardizing components such as frameworks, architecture blueprints, and reference solutions, the Foundation remains optimistic that it can level the playing field as it and the rest of the world push for more democratized AI.