Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Introduces Comprehensive AI-Native Portfolio for Generative AI

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has unveiled updates to its extensive AI-native portfolio, aimed at advancing the operationalization of generative AI (GenAI), deep learning, and machine learning (ML) applications. These updates include:

• Launching two fully integrated GenAI solutions co-engineered by HPE and NVIDIA.
• Providing a sneak peek of the HPE Machine Learning Inference Software.
• Introducing an enterprise retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) reference architecture.
• Offering support for the development of future products based on the new NVIDIA Blackwell platform.

Antonio Neri, president and CEO at HPE, emphasized the need for hybrid solutions to realize the potential of GenAI effectively, citing the collaborative innovation history between HPE and NVIDIA. He stressed the importance of delivering co-designed AI software and hardware solutions to accelerate the development and deployment of GenAI applications.

Jensen Huang, founder and CEO at NVIDIA, highlighted the transformative capabilities of generative AI in deriving insights from data across various sectors. He underscored the growing collaboration with HPE to enable enterprises to leverage their data for developing and deploying new AI applications, driving unprecedented productivity.

Key highlights of the updates include:

• Availability of HPE’s supercomputing solution for generative AI, powered by NVIDIA, to aid organizations in developing and training large AI models.
• Introduction of HPE’s enterprise computing solution for generative AI, co-engineered with NVIDIA, to streamline model fine-tuning and inference, offering scalability and flexibility.
• Preview of HPE Machine Learning Inference Software to enable rapid and secure deployment of ML models at scale.
• Deployment of a reference architecture for enterprise RAG, based on NVIDIA NeMo Retriever microservice architecture, to assist enterprises in building customized GenAI applications featuring private data.

HPE also announced plans to develop future products based on the NVIDIA Blackwell platform, incorporating a second-generation Transformer Engine to accelerate GenAI workloads. Further details about forthcoming HPE products featuring the NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip, the HGX B200, and the HGXB100 will be disclosed in the future.