At IBM, we’ve always believed that your data shouldn’t just sit in a silo; it should be the engine that powers your enterprise intelligence. That’s why we launched IBM Db2 Genius Hub: a unified, agentic AI-driven operating layer designed to transform how you manage and optimize your Db2 environments, delivering the autonomous database experience.

Since day one, Genius Hub was built to handle the most demanding AI workloads, offering native support for Amazon Bedrock, AMD Instinct™ accelerators and NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs to power the agentic AI experience.

Today, we are excited to take the next step in our mission to provide unparalleled flexibility and performance by officially introducing support for Google Vertex AI and Intel® Gaudi® AI accelerators.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of generative AI, “one size fits all” is a myth. Enterprises need the ability to choose the hardware and cloud ecosystems that best align with their specific latency requirements, cost structures and data sovereignty needs.

By expanding our support to Google Vertex AI and Intel Gaudi, we are giving Db2 customers the freedom to build and scale AI inferencing exactly how they want: