SUSE AI: Realizing the Promise of Private GenAI through Open Source

Blog by Pilar Santa Maria, VP AI at SUSE

In February, 2024, Frank Feldmann, SUSE’s Chief Strategy Officer, published a blog entitled, Our Open Approach to Tracing AI, in which he discussed the role of open source in AI and a vision for not only a secure AI solution but also a human-first approach to AI, giving enterprises a way to balance automation capabilities with the huge continuing value in human capital. 

Today, SUSE is turning this vision into reality by announcing SUSE AI, a strategy for open, secure, and enterprise-grade generative AI.  SUSE AI is a turn-key solution that provides enterprises the freedom to run private GenAI solutions with the LLM of their choice on-premises or in the cloud.

In addition, we are inviting you to join us in shaping the future of AI by participating in the SUSE AI Early Access Program (EAP) – a collaborative initiative providing a basis for secure open source AI for enterprises.  

Democratizing AI through Open Source

The SUSE AI vision is one that democratizes AI – providing choice, security, and control.  With the SUSE AI enterprise-ready solution, you’ll get:

• Security to ensure that your data remains private.  SUSE AI is secure by design. It reduces risks, is easily implemented and can be air-gapped.
• Freedom to choose the right LLM, embeddings, vector databases, and more. Bring your own model and use your own data or use one of our tested and trusted models. 
• Control to run your GenAI on your servers without any cloud dependency, bringing full control over AI workloads and data. The solution also de-risks “shadow AI” tools that could compromise your business.  In short, you get a GenAI solution that will ensure trust and compliance. 
• A “Human First” approach to AI that empowers humans to do what we do best. This approach maximizes the capabilities of AI alongside human talent, in a complementary way. It is a responsible approach to AI that will augment how work gets done, removing repetitive barriers and helping you scale and innovate.

SUSE AI is based on SUSE’s industry-leading open-source, cloud-native Linux and Kubernetes offerings.  Enabling enterprises to control data flows in a secure and private environment, the SUSE AI solution provides greater control over mission-critical data – ensuring that private data stays private.  

Shaping the Future of AI

The SUSE AI Early Access Program (EAP) is a collaborative program that showcases our commitment to customers and partners. Joining the program will not only give you early access to the SUSE AI solution components, but you’ll also work hand in glove with our SUSE AI consulting experts to build out your own private GenAI unique to your business.

As part of the EAP, you’ll play a role in the future direction of SUSE AI solutions.  You’ll collaborate with our technical and consulting experts on how to best leverage SUSE AI so you can realize the promise of Private AI.

What Now?

The promise of AI is real – from increased innovation and improved customer service to augmenting how work gets done, removing repetitive barriers and helping organizations innovate at the pace of business.  But traditional AI is rife with risks – including securing and protecting proprietary company and user data.  

SUSE AI provides a turn-key, “human first” approach to private generative AI.  GenAI is a technology multiplier; SUSE AI makes that multiplier secure through open source. The SUSE AI Early Access Program unlocks access to realizing the promise of true Private AI.  

Learn more at https://www.suse.com/solutions/ai.