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Bud Ecosystem Achieves SOC 2 Type II Attestation for Its Enterprise AI Platform
A Type I report is a snapshot; a Type II is a film. Independent testing that the controls actually operated, across four Trust Services Criteria.
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Bud Ecosystem and ViresTech Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Enterprise AI
A certified systems integrator for regulated markets. “Regulated enterprises are not anti-AI — they are pro-accountability.”
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Bud Ecosystem Wins EFY R&D Award for Breakthrough CPU-Native AI Architecture
Honored with the EFY Research & Development Award for AI by Electronics For You, recognizing Bud's ground-up development of Resource Aware Attention — a novel architecture delivering high-performance AI on standard CPU hardware, and the foundation of Bud Sentinel.
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Bud Ecosystem Named a Microsoft AI First Mover for FY26
Selected by Microsoft as one of its AI First Movers for FY26 — a curated cohort shaping the AI frontier across India and South Asia, alongside Infosys, HCLTech, LTIMindtree, and Tata Capital.
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Bud Ecosystem Joins the AMD Instinct™ AI & HPC Software Ecosystem
Now an official member of the AMD Instinct AI & HPC Software Ecosystem, formalizing Bud's longstanding AMD collaboration alongside the world's leading AI infrastructure software providers.
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Resource Aware Attention — GPU-Class AI Performance on Commodity CPUs
A new model architecture. First product Bud Sentinel ships 23 guardrail models running 2.3× faster on a laptop CPU than competitors on a $15,000 NVIDIA A100 GPU — 8.39 ms classification, 0.70 ms p50 latency.
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Netweb Technologies and Bud Ecosystem Partner to Democratize AI
Partnership with two-decade "Make-in-India" HPC manufacturer Netweb to tackle cost, connectivity, and talent barriers with hardware-agnostic GenAI and optimized SLMs.
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Bud and DataLabs Forge Strategic Partnership for Multi-Vertical GenAI Agents
Combines Bud's AI Foundry infrastructure and runtime with DataLabs' domain-specific agent portfolio to deliver multi-vertical GenAI agents to enterprises worldwide.
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NxtGen Partners with Bud Ecosystem to Lower the Cost of GenAI Adoption
NxtGen, India's sovereign cloud leader and a qualified provider for the India AI mission, partners with Bud to bring affordable, turnkey GenAI to enterprises nationwide.
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Bud Ecosystem Joins OPEA to Accelerate Open, Scalable GenAI
Joins the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA) — the Intel-founded initiative contributed to the Linux Foundation's LF AI & Data — to advance open, enterprise-ready GenAI.
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Bud Ecosystem, Intel, and Microsoft Collaborate on Cost-Effective GenAI on Azure
An MoU pairing Intel's 5th Gen Xeon processors with Bud Runtime to lower GenAI total cost of ownership for deployments on the Azure cloud.
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Introducing Bud Latent: High-Performance Inference Engine for Embeddings
A purpose-built embeddings inference engine designed to eliminate the high error rates competing engines hit at long context lengths.
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Bud Ecosystem Achieves Red Hat OpenShift Certification
Bud Runtime earns Red Hat OpenShift certification, validating compatibility and performance for enterprise AI serving and inference across OpenShift environments.
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Bud Ecosystem Wins Breakthrough Innovation ISV Award from Intel
Recognised for CPU inference on Xeon, a 1.4B SLM pre-trained on Gaudi, and eight foundational models running at once on Intel Core Ultra.
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Intel and Bud Ecosystem Forge Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Enterprise GenAI
GPU-class performance on CPU architecture. A joint benchmarking and optimisation effort across Xeon, MTL and Gaudi.
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Bud and Infosys Forge Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Enterprise GenAI Adoption
A hardware-agnostic runtime, taken to market through Infosys’ consulting and delivery practice.
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Intel, Tech Mahindra and Bud Ecosystem Collaborate on Benchmarking Project Indus
Tech Mahindra’s Indic language model, measured on Intel AI hardware, served by Bud Runtime.
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Bud Ecosystem Launches Bud Runtime: A Universal GenAI Inference Engine
One stack across CPUs, GPUs and accelerators — up to 130% better cloud inference performance, and 60–200% more throughput on CPUs.
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Bud’s Hybrid LLM Technology Is Now Intel Accelerated
Domain-specific SLMs on Intel CPUs take the routine traffic; the cloud LLM is called only when it is needed.
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Bud Ecosystem Introduces Bud Code Millennials: Open-Source SOTA Code Models
80.48% pass@1 on HumanEval for the 34B model, ahead of Gemini Ultra, Claude and GPT-3.5.
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Bud Ecosystem Open Sourced GenZ: A 70B LLM With Commercial License
An instruction-fine-tuned 70B model under a commercial licence, tuned for reasoning, role-play and writing.
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Bud Unveils SQL Millennials: Open Source Text-to-SQL Translation Model
Ask a database a question in plain language — an open-source text-to-SQL model for teams without a SQL specialist.
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