In episode 113 of the AI/Hyperautomation Minute, Toni Witt evaluates Oracle in terms of artificial intelligence (AI), as the company has directly embedded AI into its Fusion apps but has yet to make any announcements on generative AI developments.
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Highlights
00:33 — Although Oracle has been building and deploying AI for several years, there hasn’t been much news from the company in terms of its generative AI strategy.
00:51 — There are debates around data quality, bias, and challenges of integrating AI into product stacks — none of which are new debates for Oracle. For instance, the company uses autonomous databases, which are databases fully managed by an AI system.
01:27 — Additionally, Oracle embeds AI directly into its Fusion apps, which are enterprise-focused management applications.
01:49 — Toni perceives that the company doesn’t seem to be rushing into generative AI like many other companies. “They’re not rushing to push out a generative AI product or some sort of announcement before it’s ready just to join the hype train,” Toni says.
02:09 — Oracle’s VP of Technology, Richard Smith, reported that the company is more of an infrastructure provider for generative AI. It can provide enterprise-level flexibility, and security reliability that many other companies can’t.
02:26 — Oracle also has a partnership with NVIDIA, which recently hit a $1 trillion market cap. Toni notes that they are well positioned in terms of the AI stack by providing hardware that’s optimized for the vector operations needed in training AI models.
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