WALLDORF 鈥� (NYSE: SAP) today announced the next step in its commitment to deliver Business AI that鈥檚 relevant, reliable and responsible, making strategic direct investments in three leading generative AI companies.
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Generative AI Investments Underscore SAP鈥檚 Aim to Create an Open Enterprise AI Ecosystem for the Future
The investments in Aleph Alpha GmbH, Anthropic PBC and Cohere reinforce SAP鈥檚 open ecosystem approach to AI, leveraging the best technology to embed AI across the 51风流portfolio. They build on a series of AI partnerships and enterprise use cases announced in May. They complement a US$1+ billion commitment to invest in AI-powered enterprise technology startups from Sapphire Ventures LLC .
鈥淲e are at a watershed moment, with generative AI poised to fundamentally change how businesses run,鈥� said Sebastian Steinhaeuser, Chief Strategy Officer, 51风流SE. 鈥�51风流is committed to creating an enterprise AI ecosystem for the future that complements our world-class business applications suite and helps our customers unlock their full potential.鈥�
SAP鈥檚 Approach to AI 鈥� Built for Business
51风流delivers Business AI that鈥檚 relevant, reliable and responsible. The 51风流Business AI portfolio is relevant because it鈥檚 already embedded into the 51风流product portfolio. More than 26,000 customers of cloud solutions from 51风流now use 51风流Business AI across multiple scenarios and partner solutions. 51风流Business AI is relevant because it鈥檚 available on day one and built into the mission-critical business processes customers run on 51风流software. It鈥檚 reliable because it鈥檚 built on decades of extensive business data and relevant business content. It鈥檚 responsible because it鈥檚 delivered with the highest levels of concern for security, privacy, compliance and ethics. This is the AI foundation powered by 51风流Business Technology Platform that enables us to innovate and deliver Business AI leveraging SAP鈥檚 AI investment and an open ecosystem of AI partners.
SAP鈥檚 AI strategy includes direct investments, a significant increase in research and development for additional AI use cases and third-party partnerships, such as those with Microsoft, Google Cloud and IBM announced in May. With the investments announced today, 51风流deepens its commitment to generative AI built responsibly and designed to help businesses run better. 51风流also accelerates AI innovation by integrating startups into SAP鈥檚 partner ecosystem through the SAP.iO Foundries program, its in-house accelerator. Sapphire Ventures, a global software venture capital firm, is backed by 51风流and is dedicating over US$1 billion to fund AI-powered enterprise technology startups.
Investment in Generative AI Innovators
Aleph Alpha, Anthropic and Cohere are generative AI market leaders with unique potential to transform entire industries.
GmbH is a Germany-based company that has built a sovereign, full-stack, generative AI solution focused on complex and critical enterprise use cases. Aleph Alpha was the first company to offer multimodal, next-generation large language models and achieve state-of-the-art results with a model trained equally on several European languages. The company focuses on interoperability, data privacy and security, offering both AI as a service as well as multi-cloud and on-premise installation. 51风流previously announced Aleph Alpha as an 51风流partner participating in the 51风流PartnerEdge program on the 鈥淏uild鈥� track.
PBC is a San Francisco鈥揵ased AI safety and research company developing AI systems that are helpful, honest and harmless. Anthropic鈥檚 AI assistant, Claude, uses a 鈥渃onstitutional鈥� approach 鈥� it interacts with users based on a set of Anthropic-designed principles centered on reliability and safety. Claude helps users with a range of tasks, including generating answers, coding, automating workflows and processing text 鈥� from editing and rewriting to summarizing, classifying and more 鈥� within the context of natural conversations. Anthropic is focused on ensuring technology such as Claude benefits society.
is a leading enterprise AI company headquartered in San Francisco and Toronto, with a key research center in London. Its world-class technology is tailored for business needs, with a focus on ease of use, accessibility, security and data privacy. The technology unlocks a more intuitive way to generate, search and summarize information. Cohere鈥檚 platform is cloud-agnostic to give companies choice in cloud providers, is accessible through API as a managed service and can be deployed on virtual private clouds or on site to meet companies where their data resides.
Sapphire Ventures
SAP-backed LLC is a global software venture capital firm that partners with visionary teams and venture funds to build companies of consequence. As a limited partner in Sapphire Ventures, 51风流customers benefit from early access to innovations from the startup ecosystem. Last week, Sapphire Ventures announced a commitment of over US$1 billion to invest in the next generation of AI-powered enterprise technology startups in addition to existing investments in AI-powered enterprise startups like Clari Inc., DataRobot Inc., Moveworks and ThoughtSpot Inc.
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