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SOC 2 Type II attestation for the Bud Enterprise AI Platform
Certification & Membership 31 Jul 2026

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 strategic partnership
Partnership 28 Jul 2026

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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EFY R&D Award for CPU-native AI
Award & Recognition 18 Jun 2026

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
Award & Recognition 11 Jun 2026

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
Certification & Membership 26 May 2026

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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Bud Sentinel — Resource Aware Attention
Product 25 Mar 2026

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 partnership
Partnership 09 Oct 2025

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 Ecosystem and DataLabs partnership
Partnership 26 Sep 2025

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
Partnership 14 Aug 2025

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
Certification & Membership 12 Jun 2025

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 Azure
Partnership 14 Feb 2025

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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Bud Latent inference engine for embeddings
Product 12 Feb 2025

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
Certification & Membership 30 Jan 2025

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 receiving the Intel Partner Award for Breakthrough Innovation
Award & Recognition 30 Nov 2024

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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Bud Ecosystem and Intel Corporation announce a strategic partnership
Partnership 29 Nov 2024

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 Ecosystem and Infosys strategic partnership
Partnership 28 Nov 2024

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 benchmark Project Indus
Partnership 27 Nov 2024

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 Runtime, a universal generative AI inference engine
Product 27 Nov 2024

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 hybrid LLM technology, Intel Accelerated
Product 26 Nov 2024

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 Code Millennials, five open-source code models
Product 25 Nov 2024

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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GenZ 70B, an open-source large language model with a commercial licence
Product 22 Nov 2024

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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SQL Millennials, an open-source text-to-SQL translation model
Product 20 Nov 2024

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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