Dell Technologies continues to set the bar for groundbreaking AI advancements in collaboration with industry leaders like NVIDIA and Mistral AI. As we laid out in our blog from Dell Technologies World a couple weeks ago, we are working closely with Mistral AI to develop solutions that bring the true power of AI to the enterprise. Following our shared success at the event, we are expanding our collaboration with cutting-edge agentic RAG solutions powered by The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA and the Dell AI Data Platform, featuring the new Dell PowerScale connector for RAG applications.
Optimizing AI Efficiency
As organizations explore agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications to extract insights from large data repositories, operational inefficiencies become roadblocks. AI developers and data scientists will need to heavily fine tune models to make their agents enterprise-ready using massive amounts of diverse proprietary data and IP. Agents will run multiple AI techniques simultaneously and inference requirements will grow rapidly. At the same time, repetitive data ingestion challenges can slow progress and strain compute resources.
When processing terabytes of data this can add up as developers repeatedly handle changes across potentially millions of files, resulting in excessive CPU and GPU resource utilization, excessive data movement, increased network demands and slower processing pipelines. Keeping up with large dynamic datasets is a persistent issue, often requiring developers to rebuild computationally intensive chunks and embeddings.
At NVIDIA GTC San Jose back in March, Dell introduced a Dell PowerScale-specific connector for RAG applications that will help customers free up CPU and GPU resources on their AI compute clusters. Key to RAG applications, this connector minimizes redundant data processing, optimizing operational costs, infrastructure performance and accelerating time to knowledge creation. Using the connector, the system tracks processed and unprocessed files using filesystem metadata synced with an Elasticsearch database, reducing computational strain by avoiding the reprocessing of unchanged files.
NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, central to the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA complements these capabilities by accelerating data transformation, embedding and retrieval processes. Developers can now harness NeMo microservices to extract insights quickly and intuitively.
Integration with Mistral AI
We are working with Mistral AI to tackle critical operational efficiency challenges. Together, we are developing solutions that take full advantage of Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA and the new Dell AI Data Platform. The result is a unified ecosystem that effectively scales RAG applications.
The guiding principles for these solutions are:
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- Mistral’s high performance and quality AI models and software infrastructure
- Unified access to multi-modal structured and unstructured data for GenAI workloads, integrated with Mistral AI for LLM-based reasoning
- Accelerated data transformation for RAG and knowledge retrieval using PowerScale RAG Connector and a vector database
- Accelerated document-to-answer pipeline using vector, metadata, and keyword search
- Extreme inference performance with Project Lightning, the Dell solution for key-value caching
- Enterprise-grade access control and storage integration with ObjectScale and PowerScale
Through this synergistic integration, developers achieve faster time to AI outcomes and better operational control, paving the way for agentic AI advancements.
Unlocking Business Potential at Scale
Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, NVIDIA NIM microservices and Mistral AI’s solutions, together offer tangible business benefits for organizations striving to integrate AI seamlessly:
- Optimized data retrieval: By intelligently processing only new or modified files, companies can optimize CPU/GPU cycles for critical tasks.
- Optimization of overall AI infrastructure: Streamlined workflows reduce operational hiccups, giving developers the scalability to meet changing demands confidently.
- Performance: Efficient data pipelines enable businesses to extract actionable insights faster, facilitating smarter decision-making and shorter innovation cycles.
Driving Innovation, Powering AI Solutions
The combined expertise of Dell, NVIDIA, and Mistral AI represents the next era of AI-powered transformation. By addressing the core challenges of data management with Dell AI Data Platform, computational inefficiencies, and scaling, these innovations empower businesses to act decisively in an AI-driven future.
Take the next step in simplifying and scaling your AI operations. Discover how Dell AI Factory solutions can help transform your organization at NVIDIA GTC Paris. Unable to make the show? Get in touch with us, and click here to learn more about Dell AI Solutions.
