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Data platform company VAST Data has introduced a data computing platform designed to be the foundation of AI-assisted discovery. VAST sees the data platform as the next big step towards harnessing the true potential of AI.
“The VAST Data Platform was built with the entire data spectrum of natural data in mind – unstructured and structured data types in the form of video, imagery, free text, data streams and instrument data – generated from all over the world and processed against an entire global data corpus in real-time,” the company said in a statement.
Graduating Beyond Large Language Models
While generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) have introduced the world to the early capabilities of artificial intelligence, LLMs are limited to performing routine tasks like business reporting or reciting information that is already known.
“The true promise of AI will be realised when machines can recreate the process of discovery by capturing, synthesising and learning from data – achieving a level of specialisation that used to take decades in a matter of days,” they said.
Vast says the technology will accelerate humanity’s quest to solve its biggest challenges. AI can help industries find treatments for disease and cancers, forge new paths to tackle climate change, pioneer revolutionary approaches to agriculture, and uncover new fields of science and mathematics that the world has not yet even considered.
How it works
To capture and serve data from the natural world, VAST first engineered the foundation of its platform, the VAST DataStore, a scalable storage architecture for unstructured data that eliminates storage tiering.
Exposing enterprise file storage and object storage interfaces, the VAST DataStore is an enterprise network attached storage platform built to meet the needs of today’s powerful AI computing architectures, such as NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD AI supercomputers, as well as big-data and HPC platforms.
The exabyte-scale DataStore is built with best-in-class system efficiency to bring archive economics to flash infrastructure – making it also suitable for archive applications. Resolving the cost of flash storage has been critical to laying the foundation for deep learning for enterprise customers as they look to train models on their proprietary data assets.
To date, VAST has managed more than ten exabytes of data globally with leading customers including Booking.com, NASA, Pixar Animation Studios, Zoom Video Communications, Inc., and many others.
“We’ve been working toward this moment since our first days, and we’re incredibly excited to unveil the world’s first data platform built from the ground up for the next generation of AI-driven discovery,” said Renen Hallak, CEO and Co-Founder at VAST Data.
“Encapsulating the ability to create and catalogue understanding from natural data on a global scale, we’re consolidating entire IT infrastructure categories to enable the next era of large-scale data computation. With the VAST Data Platform, we are democratising AI abilities and enabling organisations to unlock the true value of their data.”
The VAST DataStore, DataBase and DataSpace are generally available within the VAST Data Platform today, and the VAST DataEngine will be made available in 2024.
