VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) have expanded their strategic partnership to prepare enterprises using VMware's cloud infrastructure for the era of generative AI. The collaboration will introduce VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA, a fully integrated solution that allows enterprises to customize models and run generative AI applications such as intelligent chatbots, assistants, search, and summarization. The platform, built on VMware Cloud Foundation and optimized for AI, combines generative AI software and accelerated computing from NVIDIA. This partnership aims to enable enterprises to confidently run generative AI workloads adjacent to their data, addressing data privacy, security, and control concerns.

The collaboration will offer full-stack computing capabilities to streamline the development, testing, and deployment of generative AI applications, with the potential to add up to $4. 4 trillion annually to the global economy. Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Lenovo will support VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA, offering systems that enhance enterprise generative AI customization and inference workloads. The platform is expected to be released in early 2024. NVIDIA, a pioneer in accelerated computing, revolutionized the PC gaming market and is now reshaping various industries through its data-center-scale offerings. VMware, on the other hand, provides multi-cloud services that empower businesses to innovate with enterprise control.