Oracle Cloud and AMD have fostered a long-standing collaboration in the realm of cloud computing, a partnership that Karan Batta, Senior Vice President at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, shed light on at AMD’s Advancing AI event when speaking with Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD. 

“We’re also excited to actually support MI300X as part of our generative AI service that’s going to be coming up live very soon as well,” said Batta. Oracle has announced that it would be hosting AMD’s MI300X GPUs for its cloud infrastructure, which were released at the event by Su and would be available starting next year. 

AMD loves Oracle

Batta expressed his excitement about the partnership between Oracle and AMD, emphasising their journey since the inception of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in 2017. The partnership has seen the integration of every generation of AMD’s EPYC into OCI’s bare metal compute platform, garnering success with notable customers like Red Bull. 

Read: AMD Eyes Big Wins with MI300X for AI Workloads 

This success prompted an expansion across the entire portfolio of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings, including Kubernetes and VMware. Additionally, this extends to Pensando oDPUs, where offloading logic enhances performance and flexibility for customers.

Batta highlighted Oracle’s support for the MI300X in the bare-metal compute stack, underlining the company’s commitment to integrating the latest technologies into its offerings. Customer feedback on AMD’s MI300X has been positive, with early adopters like Databricks expressing enthusiasm about the upcoming generative AI service.

Databricks, along with Lamini and Essential AI have also been a long running customer of AMD. All three of these companies have been using AMD’s earlier GPUs for working on AI workloads. Highlighting another significant milestone, Karan mentioned their partnership on Exadata earlier in the year, signalling a promising trajectory for their future. 

On the other hand, AMD has also partnered with Microsoft and Meta for offering MI300X on their platforms. AMD believes that AI is a collaborative frontier, and not just a competition. 

Meta AI senior director engineering Ajit Matthews announced that Meta is going to use MI300X for building its data centres. Microsoft’s CTO Kevin Scott also said that Azure OpenAI Service will now also run on MI300X. This is similar to what Oracle has been doing with its multi-cloud approach.

Oracle loves NVIDIA, and everyone

When it comes to cloud, Oracle has played a multi-cloud gamble and is partnering with Microsoft to integrate it within its services. Moreover, the company has also announced that it is hoping to partner with Google and AWS soon. This clearly showcases Oracle’s commitment to staying on top of the game via collaboration. Same goes for hardware providers.

Batta further highlighted that AMD’s MI300X are also going to be part of Oracle’s generative AI service that is going to go live very soon. It is clear that just like AMD is all about partnership, Oracle is also committed to building an ecosystem for generative AI, instead of competing with others.

Interestingly, Oracle had announced a multi-year partnership with NVIDIA to accelerate AI adoption for enterprises. Chris Chelliah, Oracle’s spokesperson, highlighted that NVIDIA selected OCI as the first hyper-scale cloud provider to offer NVIDIA DGX Cloud, emphasising the strength of Oracle’s infrastructure.

The partnership leverages MySQL HeatWave data for real-time anomaly detection on NVIDIA clusters, showcasing the synergy between the two entities. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customers now have simplified access to high-performance accelerated computing and software for production AI projects.

The best of both worlds

The inclusion of NVIDIA’s DGX Cloud AI supercomputing platform and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, along with the announcement of AMD’s MI300X, and support for ROCm, provides a streamlined path for end-to-end AI development and deployment.

Oracle’s intricate dance between AMD and NVIDIA reflects a nuanced strategy in the rapidly evolving landscape of generative AI and cloud computing. Oracle wants everything to be about collaboration, and to give its customers the best of both, NVIDIA and AMD’s world.