Artificial intelligence (AI) dominated discussions at Oracle CloudWorld Tour Sydney last week, with executives showcasing the company’s AI strategy and its impact on Australian businesses. Oracle is embedding AI across all levels of its technology stack, from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to industry- and domain-specific applications and the Oracle database. This allows customers to leverage their own data with Oracle’s AI, rather than having to export it to external platforms. Mike Sicilia, Oracle’s executive vice-president for global industries, noted that AI is becoming integral to business operations: “We’re getting to the point where AI just becomes the way we conduct ourselves, the way we do business. You don’t need to think about it as something separate.” “[But] AI requires massive infrastructure,” he said, adding that the four main AI infrastructure suppliers run their training and inferencing workloads on OCI because of the economies that the platform offers. “I think the next wave of AI agents will be all the way to the edge,” he added, pointing out that applying AI at the point where a doctor talks to a patient or a salesperson interacts with a customer has immediate value because both parties benefit at the same time. Stephen […]
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