Bud Ecosystem is a pioneering AI research and product company dedicated to democratizing Generative AI by making it accessible, affordable, and scalable for enterprises, developers, and researchers worldwide. Founded in 2023, with operations in both the United States and India, Bud Ecosystem focuses on developing multi-modal, multi-task foundational models and inference technologies that run efficiently across diverse hardware environments, including CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, and edge devices. Bud’s products and offerings are:
- Bud Runtime: A universal GenAI inference engine that enables high-performance AI applications on standard CPU systems, significantly reducing costs and making AI more accessible.
- Open-Source Models: Bud Ecosystem has released over 20 open-source models, including large language models (LLMs), diffusion models, and code generation models like the Bud Code Millennials series, which have set new benchmarks in code generation tasks.
Bud Ecosystem has collaborated with industry leaders such as Intel, Microsoft, Infosys, and LTIMindtree to advance GenAI adoption. Notably, the company received the Intel Partner Award for Breakthrough Innovation in the ISV category, recognizing its contributions to AI model serving stacks and CPU inference acceleration.
Key Features and Benefits
- Hardware Agnostic Performance: Bud Runtime delivers state-of-the-art inference performance across various hardware configurations, such as CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, TPUs, and HPUs, ensuring flexibility and scalability in deployment
- Cost Efficiency: Organizations can implement GenAI solutions for as low as $200, reducing both capital and operational expenditures without compromising on performance.
- Heterogeneous Cluster Parallelism: The engine supports mixed hardware environments, splitting AI workloads across different hardware available to you—be that GPU, CPU, TPU, HPU—and executes them in parallel to make the most of all available hardware.
- Enterprise-Ready Features: Bud Runtime includes built-in LLM guardrails, model monitoring, advanced observability, and compliance with regulatory frameworks such as the White House and EU AI guidelines.
- Enhanced Inference Performance: The platform offers up to 130% better embedding model inference performance in the cloud and up to 12 times better performance on client devices, contributing to significant improvements in AI application responsiveness.
- Deployment Flexibility: Bud Runtime supports on-premises, cloud, and edge deployments, providing organizations with the versatility to choose the most suitable environment for their AI applications.
By addressing the challenges of high GPU costs and infrastructure scarcity, Bud Runtime empowers startups, developers, enterprises, and research institutions to harness the power of generative AI effectively and efficiently.
