Today, the Linux Foundation AI & Data announced the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA) as its latest Sandbox Project.
OPEA aims to accelerate secure, cost-effective generative AI (GenAI) deployments for businesses by driving interoperability across a diverse and heterogeneous ecosystem, starting with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
At Intel Vision 2024, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger outlined the industry challenges and declared the intention to create an industrywide open platform for enterprise AI. Today is the next step in that journey and Intel is in on the ground floor.
Initially in this effort, Intel plans to:
- Publish a technical conceptual framework.
- Release reference implementations for GenAI pipelines on secure solutions based on Intel® Xeon® processors and Intel® Gaudi® AI accelerators.
- Continue to add infrastructure capacity in the Intel® Tiber™ Developer Cloud for ecosystem development, AI acceleration, and validation of RAG and future pipelines.
The RAG ecosystem continues to progress through the creation of new projects and innovation. Despite this, enterprises are challenged with a do-it-yourself approach because there are no de facto standards across components that allow enterprises to choose and deploy RAG solutions that are open and interoperable and that help them quickly get to market.
OPEA intends to address these issues by collaborating with the industry to standardize components, including frameworks, architecture blueprints and reference solutions that showcase performance, interoperability, trustworthiness and enterprise-grade readiness. This will help drive adoption of RAG solutions in the enterprise and harness innovation across an open ecosystem.
Open source projects have pushed AI innovation further, faster. One result of this evolution is the advent of generative AI (GenAI), which is currently in a state of kinetic innovation, a byproduct of which is fragmentation of techniques and tools. This fragmentation is a barrier to enterprise adoption of GenAI and the immense value it brings to a business.
Developers tasked with realizing this value are faced with a dizzying number of choices when it comes to incorporating GenAI.
At this early stage, open source collaboration can establish a robust and concrete framework from which to construct and evaluate composable GenAI solutions. With this in mind, Intel, working with several other industry partners, is proud to bring forth the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA).
OPEA is a new sandbox-level project within the LF AI & Data Foundation. OPEA’s mission is to create an open platform project that enables the creation of open, multi-provider, robust, and composable GenAI solutions that harness the best innovation across the ecosystem.
“OPEA, with the support of the broader community, will address critical pain points of RAG adoption and scale today. It will also define a platform for the next phases of developer innovation that harnesses the potential value generative AI can bring to enterprises and all our lives,” said Melissa Evers, vice president of the Software and Advanced Technology Group and general manager of Strategy to Execution at Intel Corporation.
