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DATABRICKS STRENGTHENS PARTNERSHIP WITH AWS TO DELIVER ADVANCED GENAI CAPABILITIES
Databricks , the Data and AI company , announced a strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to accelerate the development of custom models built with Databricks Mosaic AI on AWS . Databricks will leverage AWS Trainium chips as the preferred AI chip to power Mosaic AI model training and serving capabilities on AWS .
Joint customers can leverage Mosaic AI to pretrain , fine-tune , augment and serve large language models , LLMs on their private data , backed by the scale , performance and security of AWS . The expanded partnership will also include new integrations for Databricks on AWS Marketplace .
The collaboration builds on Databricks ’ newly expanded Mosaic AI capabilities , which includes Mosaic AI Model Serving . Mosaic AI Model Serving is designed to support a variety of model providers , including the broad selection of models available via Amazon Bedrock . Customers can also scale model training on Mosaic AI at a low cost using high-performing , costeffective AWS Trainium chips .
Together , Databricks and AWS will make it possible for thousands of joint customers to build , deploy and monitor high-quality , customised AI applications without sacrificing control over their data or intellectual property .
The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform is available on AWS and has achieved FedRAMP High Agency Authority to Operate for its cloud services on AWS GovCloud . “ Generative AI is disrupting every industry and a company ’ s data will be its
Matt Garman , CEO AWS
competitive advantage . Strengthening our collaboration with AWS allows us to provide customers with unmatched scale and priceperformance so they can bring their own generative AI applications to market more rapidly ,” said Ali Ghodsi , Co-founder and CEO at Databricks .
“ Our collaboration with Databricks unlocks the potential for customers to drive real value from their data using generative AI ,” said Matt Garman , CEO of AWS .
“ By using AWS Trainium to power Mosaic AI , Databricks will make it cost-effective for customers to build and deploy generative AI applications on top of their analytics workflows , regardless of their industry or use case . This powerful combination will allow businesses of all sizes to gain valuable insights from their data , helping customers innovate faster by focusing on what truly matters most for their business .”
Ali Ghodsi , Co-founder and CEO , Databricks
This agreement builds on the longstanding relationship between Databricks and AWS , its first cloud partner . Databricks ’ AWS business has already surpassed a $ 1 billion run rate , fuelled in part by AWS Marketplace , where total contract value has doubled on an annualised basis over the past two years .
As part of this relationship , Databricks and AWS will continue to invest in product capabilities and programme to support customers .
Databricks and AWS will collaborate on the development of custom models built with Mosaic AI using AWS Trainium chips to improve cost and performance for training and running LLMs . AWS Trainium benefits from the AWS Nitro System , a collection of hardware and software components designed to provide high performance , availability , privacy and security for cloudbased workloads . •
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