• Amazon Web Services has announced an expansion of its collaborative efforts with SAP focusing on generative AI.
• The SAP AI Core will provide customers with access to a broad set of large language models (LLMs) that can be integrated into SAP business applications.
• Foundation models from AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and AWS will be made available via Amazon Bedrock.

This week SAP kicks off its Sapphire conference where the focus will be on one thing – generative AI.

To assist in that regard, prior to the conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced an expansion of its collaborative efforts with SAP on the SAP AI Core.

“AWS was the first cloud provider certified to support the SAP portfolio and today, thousands of enterprise companies run SAP solutions on AWS to get the most out of their mission-critical applications. Now, AWS and SAP are making it faster and easier for companies to apply generative AI to their core business data to become more efficient, responsive, and sustainable,” noted Matt Garman, incoming AWS CEO, in a blog post.

Moving forward, the generative AI hub in SAP AI Core will provide customers with secure access to a broad range of large language models (LLMs), the pair confirmed. This will make it easier to integrated genAI into SAP business applications.

AWS explains that with the integration of generative AI models from Amazon Bedrock such as the Anthropic Claude 3 model family and Amazon Titan, SAP customers will be able to access LLMs and other foundation models (FMs) to build applications customised with their own data.

Added to this, Amazon Bedrock already makes available the tools to build and scale generative AI applications using FMs from notable AI companies including AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon itself.

“With this integration, SAP customers may accelerate the adoption of generative AI and modernize key business processes built on SAP solutions. These innovations can be used in embedded use cases within RISE with SAP and the intelligent scenario lifecycle management functionality as an integration component or side-by-side directly on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). SAP and AWS plan to expand the use of Bedrock capabilities in the generative AI hub to further enable embedded AI functionality within SAP’s portfolio of cloud solutions and applications,” added the pair in a release sent to Hypertext.

Along with the work around the SAP AI Core, both companies will be collaborating on the use of AWS chips to support SAP HANA Cloud.

“Now SAP and AWS are collaborating on the next generation of Graviton4 for SAP HANA Cloud and additional SAP applications to continue to improve performance and efficiency. Based on the success of running SAP HANA Cloud on AWS Graviton, SAP plans to use AWS Graviton to support SAP solutions and applications such as SAP BTP, SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, and the SAP Cloud ALM solution,” they added.

“SAP plans to use AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia chips, purpose built for AI and machine learning (ML) workloads, for training and deploying future SAP Business AI offerings,” they concluded.

With SAP Sapphire on the go in Orlando, Florida, there will likely be more announcements involving both companies over the coming days.