The Linux Foundation has announced the establishment of the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA) group, aiming to set a standard for Generative AI processing in the corporate market.
OPEA aligns with Intel’s recent announcement, focusing on creating open-source applications utilizing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), a technique that leverages pre-trained language models to access external data sources. This platform operates on any processing unit, not limited to NVIDIA GPUs, which currently dominate the market.
With Intel at the forefront, OPEA emphasizes Intel Xeon CPUs and the Gaudi accelerator units as primary hardware choices, despite the absence of other hardware manufacturers joining the initiative. However, OPEA partners include renowned software developers such as Cloudera, Datastax, Hugging Face, MariaDB Foundation, MinIO, SAS, Red Hat, and VMware, ensuring software compatibility with the OPEA platform.
In the long run, the success of OPEA and Intel’s ability to drive its advancement remain to be seen.
TLDR: The Linux Foundation establishes OPEA to standardize Generative AI processing in the corporate market, aligning with Intel’s initiatives and garnering support from various software developers for software compatibility.
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