Tech Mahindra Ltd. a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering services and solutions, today announced the launch of GAiA – the first enterprise edition of open source Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform Acumos. GAiA will enable enterprises across industry verticals to build, share and rapidly deploy AI-driven services and applications to solve business critical problems.
GAiA will also provide support to enterprises in adopting open source AI platform offerings to implement custom use cases, models and integration services. It will be available for commercial purpose and will support open source distribution as well. The various industry solutions and the existing marketplace in GAiA will further be enriched through collaboration with academia, third-party Machine Learning developers and companies.
Manish Vyas, President, Communications, Media & Entertainment Business, and the CEO, Network Services, said, “As part of our TechMNxt charter, Tech Mahindra is committed to leveraging next generation technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) to solve real business problems of our customers. The need of the hour is to democratize our knowledge and expertise in AI and make it universally accessible. GAiA is a step in that direction and we believe that it will be the change agent to drive digital transformation journey of our customers.”
The platform is available in Beta and hosts a marketplace of Machine Learning (ML) models that can be applied to popular use cases in many industry verticals.
Andre Fuetsch, president, AT&T Labs, and chief technology officer at AT&T, said, “Our goal in launching the Acumos AI project was always to see it become an open platform to accelerate innovation in the AI ecosystem, and we are pleased to see that vision taking shape. GAiA, powered by Acumos, looks set to help broaden AI’s reach even further and make it accessible to everyone.”
Ibrahim Haddad, Director of Research at The Linux Foundation, said, “Tech Mahindra has been a leader in the development of the Acumos AI platform, as well as the LF Deep Learning Foundation and open source generally. We are excited to see Tech Mahindra use Acumos in a real world solution, and look forward to seeing adoption of Acumos continue to grow.”
The launch of the GAiA platform is in line with Tech Mahindra’s TechMNxt charter which focuses on leveraging next generation technologies like Artificial Intelligence to address real world problems and meet the customer’s evolving and dynamic needs.