Welcome to What’s New in OCI! On June 13th we announced our plans
to provide native generative AI services to help organizations automate end-to-end business
processes, improve decision-making, and enhance customer experiences in collaboration with Cohere,
a leading AI platform for enterprises. Built on OCI and leveraging our unique Supercluster
capabilities, Oracle generative AI services will span applications to infrastructure and
aim to provide the highest levels of security, performance, and value in the industry. Cohere
will train, build, and deploy its generative AI models on OCI, and their language models will be
embedded into our Cloud Applications portfolio to enable customers to leverage generative AI in
their existing business processes. OCI Generative AI, an upcoming AI service, will enable OCI
customers to add generative AI capabilities to their own applications and we will also embed
generative AI capabilities into our database offerings in the same way we introduced Machine
Learning features in Oracle Database and MySQL HeatWave. Check out the press release for more
details regarding this exciting announcement. And speaking of AI did you know that in order
to build and train AI models efficiently with the best price-performance you need
more than just a lot of GPUs? Working with AI means processing large volumes
of data in clustered compute environments that requires high performance, ultra-low latency
and extreme bandwidth across the stack. All hyperscale cloud providers have GPU offerings,
but Oracle has the only AI infrastructure with bare metal instances with GPUs, which offer more
isolation and no overhead from virtualization. OCI also offers more local storage, CPU cores,
and CPU memory. While OCI costs as much as 22% less for individual instances, the
differences between cloud providers are even more significant when it comes to clustered workloads.
For more details on the comparison, check out the blog in the links below.
And that’s all from me. Hey Mark, what else is new in OCI?
Thank you, Shig. I've got 2 updates for you today
First up, I’m pleased to announce the launch into Limited Availability of our brand new
E5 Compute shapes powered by the 4th generation AMD EPYC CPUs. E5 instances offer more CPU cores,
greater performance per core, greater memory bandwidth and increased storage capacity. We
have customizable shapes including Standard, HPC and Dense IO. Instances with AMD processors are
already collectively saving our customers over $40M a year because you can match and flex them
to the demands of your workload rather than being stuck into rigid, preconfigured options. If you’re
interested in that Limited Availability launch you can check out the link in the show notes below.
Next up, I’m please to announce the launch of our GraalVM free license. Yes, you head that right,
GraalVM for JDK 17 and JDK 20 which was previously GraalVM Enterprise is now free,
so developers can now download and use Graal VM without needing a license agreement. If you
dont know GraalVM, it is is a high performance JDK that speeds up Java and JVM based applications. It
generates faster code and uses fewer resources. Again, you can check out the links for that
in the notes below. Now over to Kenna!
Thanks Mark! I have three pieces of news today. First up, the launch of the OCI Toolkit for Visual
Studio Code (or VS Code), which is a rich collection of OCI extensions that make it
easier for you to develop, test, and deploy applications on OCI straight from VS Code.
This OCI Toolkit offers Quick Start templates and other tools, supports end-to-end coding
workflows for OCI services, including Functions, Resource Manager, and Data Science, and seamlessly
integrates with those services. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting with OCI
development, the OCI Toolkit is designed to help you rapidly prototype cloud solutions,
explore new services, and accomplish quick coding tasks, right from VS code.
Next up, OCI has announced a new certification: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Digital Assistant
Professional for 2023. For Digital Assistant Developers, Data Science or Machine Learning
Engineers, or Conversation Designers, this learning path will teach you to:
Build Skills and Digital Assistants, employ Conversational AI best practices,
create robust training models and conversation flows, and much more! This certification is also
included in our current Race to Certification, going on through August 31st, which gives you free
access to learning paths and exam attempts. Check out the links below to join in!
And to close, let's look at the launch of Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud, a hyperscale
cloud that addresses data residency and sovereignty requirements in the European Union.
Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud offers over 100 of the same cloud services that are available
in all our cloud regions at the same simple, consistent rates. This independently managed
cloud enables customers to build resilient applications that keep data within EU borders,
and can help digital transformation efforts across critical regulated industries,
such as healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, and government.
For more details, check out the blog post in the description below.
That's all for this month! Be sure to like this video and subscribe if you haven't already,
and we'll be back next month with a roundup of new news from OCI!