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newsroom.intel.com, May. 01, 2025 –
IBM is the first cloud service provider to make Intel® Gaudi® 3 AI accelerators available to customers, a move designed to make powerful artificial intelligence capabilities more accessible and to directly address the high cost of specialized AI hardware.
For Intel, the rollout on IBM Cloud marks the first major commercial deployment of Gaudi 3, bringing choice to the market. By leveraging Intel Gaudi 3 on IBM Cloud, the two companies aim to help clients cost-effectively test, innovate and deploy GenAI solutions.
According to a recent forecast by research firm Gartner, worldwide generative AI (GenAI) spending is expected to total $644 billion in 2025, an increase of 76.4% from 2024. The research found “GenAI will have a transformative impact across all aspects of IT spending markets, suggesting a future where AI technologies become increasingly integral to business operations and consumer products.”
For many enterprise customers, the benefits are clear when tools like GenAI automate tasks, improve workflows and drive innovation. But deploying AI applications demands significant computing power, often requiring expensive specialized processors that can keep many businesses from benefiting from AI.
Gaudi 3 AI accelerators are specifically designed to help meet the exploding demands for GenAI, large model inferencing and model fine-tuning while supporting an open development framework. Gaudi 3 is also ideal for multimodal large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
“By bringing Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerators to IBM Cloud, we're enabling businesses to help scale generative AI workloads with optimized performance for inferencing and fine-tuning,” said Saurabh Kulkarni, vice president of Data Center AI Strategy at Intel. “This collaboration underscores our shared commitment to making AI more accessible and cost-effective for enterprises worldwide.”