Macnica begins handling Weights & Biases, which provides a platform for AI developers - End-to-end support for enterprise AI development in the generative AI era, from experiment management to verification and operation -

Macnica (headquarters: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture; President: Kazumasa Hara; hereinafter Macnica"), CLAVIS Company, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a sales partnership agreement with Weights & Biases, Inc. (headquarters: San Francisco, California, USA; CEO: Lukas Biewald; hereinafter "W&B"), a company that provides a platform for everything from experiment management to verification and operation in enterprise AI development.

■A platform that realizes MLOps ^*1 and LLMOps ^*2 in the era of generative AI
The Weights & Biases platform (WandB) boasts an overwhelming market share with the world's leading generative AI/LLM development companies, including OpenAI and Stability AI. In the growing world of AI development, enterprise-grade ML experiment management and an information management platform to realize end-to-end LLMOps are becoming essential in order to lead the experimental research and development process to success. WandB supports a wide range of deep learning use cases such as LLM development, image modeling, and drug discovery, and is trusted by more than 800,000 machine learning practitioners in Japan and overseas.

■Value that Macnica can provide
As an authorized distributor of NVIDIA, Macnica provides sales support for hardware and software for AI development, as well as software for GPU resource management (Run:ai). ^*3) and industry leading partners to provide solutions to customer issues. By strengthening our partnership with W&B, we will implement enterprise-grade MLOps and LLMOps platforms into existing solutions and provide end-to-end support for AI development and operation.

■ Macnica starts providing WandB verification service with “AI TRY NOW PROGRAM ^{* 4}”
We have added the WandB platform to the support program "AI TRY NOW PROGRAM", which allows you to test the latest AI solutions on the NVIDIA development environment before introducing them into your company. This makes it possible to test the operation of WandB on the latest AI development environment, and to try it out in conditions close to the production environment by combining it with various ecosystems.

*1: MLOps (a word coined by combining Machine Learning and Operations)
An efficient way to manage machine learning projects that fosters advanced team collaboration and provides a means to quickly deliver business value through training, testing, deployment, and operational automation.

*2: LLMOps (Large Language Model Operations)
We provide a development management method for MLOps that specializes in large-scale language models (LLM).

*3: About Run:ai
A platform that realizes dynamic and automatic sharing of GPU resources between teams, and is provided as a Kubernetes plugin (software). Features such as a scheduler and a centralized user interface can be added, allowing users to focus on their own AI development.
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https://www.macnica.co.jp/business/semiconductor/manufacturers/nvidia/products/143446/

*4: About “AI TRY NOW PROGRAM”
As an authorized NVIDIA distributor, Macnica not only provides hardware and support, but also offers the support program "AI TRY NOW PROGRAM" that can be used when considering the introduction of the latest AI solutions on the NVIDIA development environment. the Company engineers have carefully selected the best AI technology to solve problems and built the environment, so there is no need for customers to prepare the environment themselves. By combining it with a synergistic ecosystem centered around NVIDIA products, you can measure KPIs of performance and functionality close to those in a production environment, which can be expected to accelerate implementation decisions.

[Click here for details on this program]
https://www.macnica.co.jp/business/semiconductor/manufacturers/nvidia/products/143484/

[For inquiries regarding this matter, please contact:]
Macnica CLAVIS Company Company WandB Product Manager
Tel: 045-470-9821

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