IBM Db2 Genius Hub Gets Google Vertex AI And Intel Gaudi Support As Enterprise AI Moves Closer To Production
IBM on Monday announced that its Db2 Genius Hub adds support for Google Vertex AI and Intel Gaudi AI accelerators, opening up more options for customers to run database AI inference both on-premises and in the cloud. Inference refers to the phase when an AI model generates answers, recommendations, or other outputs from data. The shift comes as major firms keep working to move generative AI out of pilot territory and into actual production—where issues like latency, infrastructure spend, and data location can make or break scaling plans. IBM pitched this Db2 update as a flexibility play, aiming to give customers options around cloud, hardware, and data-sovereignty requirements.