New Delhi: Indian IT services company Infosys and chip giant Intel on Wednesday announced the expansion of their strategic collaboration to help global enterprises accelerate their AI journey.

According to a joint release, the advanced artificial intelligence (AI) solutions introduced as a part of this partnership will aim to help businesses become cost-effective and performance-driven while being responsible by design.

Announcing Infosys Topaz and Intel's collaboration to accelerate enterprise growth and efficiency with Generative AI, the release said the expanded partnership will advance AI by bringing open standards across the software stack across AI hardware, edge, core, and cloud computing. Will help in making it “democratic”.

Infosys Topaz – an AI-first set of services, solutions and platforms that helps enterprises accelerate business value using generative AI technologies – will adopt Intel-based solutions, including Intel Xeon processors, Intel Gaud Accelerator, Intel Includes Core Ultra processor, software and more. The products enable customers to integrate General AI into their businesses and follow the emerging guardrails of AI.Infosys will also leverage Intel AI training assets to skill its employees across the Intel product portfolio, providing generic AI expertise to its vast network of global customers across industries.

Balakrishna DR, Global Services Head, AI and Executive Vice President, Industry Vertical, at Infosys, said the Bengaluru-headquartered IT company has adopted an AI-first strategy to deliver advanced AI services to customers looking to drive significant business value in their operations.

“Infosys Topaz offerings and solutions seamlessly complement Intel's core stack and its 'AI Everywhere' strategy. By combining our strengths, we are helping enterprises in their journey to become AI-first and leaders in our industry “Accelerating business value with AI solutions,” Balakrishna said.

Christoph Schell, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, Inte Corporation, said customers and developers are looking for competitive total cost of ownership and time-to-value AI solutions to scale and win.“Our vision in bringing AI everywhere is to support an open AI software ecosystem and accelerate the adoption of Intel Xeon and Goudy Accelerator for general AI use cases. We believe that Infosys and local ISVs “Our collaboration with is a huge opportunity for us to develop software and tools that can help drive the adoption of Intel-based technology and reduce overall TCO for our customers,” Scales said.