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BUD, DELL AI FOUNDRY

Bud and Dell AI Foundry delivers an end-to-end GenAI stack that unifies infrastructure, models, tooling, and governance. Eliminating complexity and enabling scalable, secure AI success.

INFRASTRUCTURE BY DELL

Dell Precision workstations and PowerEdge servers deliver the power to deploy and manage AI platforms — from machine learning and deep learning to generative AI and computer vision.

Simplified

Powerful systems that simplify deployment and development of a variety of AI applications - including generative AI.

Tailored

Workstations configured to meet your cognitive framework. Effective & flexible for enterprise AI.

Trusted

Work with hardware and software defenses built for today's data-driven world with Dell Trusted Workspace.

INTELLIGENCE BY BUD

Bud AI Foundry is the operating layer for enterprise GenAI. A unified platform to experiment, build, scale, and consume private and cloud AI models and agents. Dell's AI-optimized infrastructure, combined with Bud AI Foundry, delivers a unified, silicon-agnostic AI Foundry stack for private and hybrid AI. A single platform that provides everything from training and GPU virtualization to multimodal scalable inference, guardrails, agents, and observability — all in one place, with state-of-the-art performance.

6.4X faster GTM

Accelerate go-to-market with a fully integrated stack that eliminates custom engineering and integration delays.

Up to 6X Lower TCO

Reduce total cost of ownership by 2.4X to 6X with optimized infrastructure and over 4X token efficiency.

Up to 8X Higher Performance

Unlock 1.6X to 8X performance gains through deep stack optimization from hardware to inference.

END TO END FOUNDATIONAL AI LAYER

Application Layer

Orchestrator Layer

Agent Layer

Context Layer

tokens

Neural Network (NN) Layer

Link Layer

Physical Layer

Bud Studio, Terminal, VScode plugin, Clawd bot for enterprises, AI PaaS, GPUaaS, TaaS

AI Gateways, Routing, Tool discovery/scheduling, Middlewares, endpoints, Scaler & Schedulers.

Agent Runtime, Agent Builder, Universal Agent, Tools, Observability & Guardrails.

Data connectors, caching, compression, Memory, prompt enhancements.

Hybrid AI, Resource planning, Automated parallelism & Optimization, Multi-Modality, Multi-task

GPU virtualisation (FCSP), Bud Pod, Layer Zero (HW/Kernel Abstraction, Custom kernels)

CPU, GPU, HPU, TPU, NPU

UNIFIED PLATFORM FOR EVERYTHING GENAI

Prebuilt Agents & Models

Compliant & Secure

Guardrails Management

Observability

Model Management

Model Playgrounds

Cluster Management

Agent Playground

RBAC, IAM Management

MCP Tools, A2A Tools

FinOps, Analytics & Reports

Workflows & Pipelines

SDKs, Terminal and User tools

H/W Virtualization

Auto, SLO-aware Scaling

Agent Builder

Agent for GenAI Management

Evals & Experiments

READY TO DEPLOY ACROSS DELL ECOSYSTEM

Dell Automation Platform

Bud as a Dell-Validated Blueprint enables secure, one-click POC-to-production deployment.

OpenManage Enterprise

Infra-aware AI with OpenManage Enterprise, mapping models to PowerEdge.

Dell AI Factory

Bud on Dell AI Factory ensures Dell handles infrastructure, while Bud manages agents and AI governance.

NativeEdge

Deploy agentic AI to thousands of sites with centralized control, local execution, and zero-trust security.

TRAIN. DEPLOY. EVALUATE. BUILD. CONSUME.

Agent

A Personal Assistant & Intern that continuously learns and augments your employees. Bud Universal Agent can create new personal agents, agentic workflows, and customized augmentation plans for every employee — it's like Clawd bot for enterprises. Built with multi-level guardrails, full observability, audit trails, and rate limits to ensure secure and scalable enterprise usage.

AI Foundry

One unified stack for multimodal inferencing, scaling, middleware, observability, evaluations, guardrails, governance, tools, and data across both open and closed-source models. It enables Private AI PaaS, Inference-as-a-Service, Model-as-a-Service, and Agent-as-a-Service in any environment.

Model Foundry

Model training platform for private enterprise AI. Supports training with low compute, memory, network, and bandwidth requirements without compromising accuracy. Supports over 120 model architectures and multiple training methodologies, post-training, agentic training, along with integrated data and observability pipelines.

FCSP

A high-performance GPU virtualization system with NVIDIA MIG-level isolation and performance. FCSP enables 2X higher tenant density while maintaining less than 5% performance degradation targets, translating to potential infrastructure cost savings of $14M annually for a 1000-GPU deployment.

Pod

RunPod-like private GPUaaS, AIPaaS, AI Use Case as a Service, and GPU serverless platform for researchers and developers within the organization to research, develop, and pilot any GenAI use cases without requiring deep infrastructure expertise. It offers one-click use case deployment, job scheduling, pipelining, and serverless execution.

Studio

A fully integrated AI Studio for every enterprise user to consume models and agents, build their own agents, and share them with others. It includes a universal personal agent (Like ClawdBot for enterprise users) and is fully integrated as private desktop applications, Terminal, VS Code, and Web UI.

MCP Foundry

To unlock the full potential of Agentic AI, enterprises need seamless access to their tools, workflows, and data, which are often siloed. Bud MCP Foundry lets you convert existing software, APIs, and workflows into MCPs without coding or custom integration, providing a secure, federated solution that makes any enterprise GenAI-ready immediately.

SENTRY

A zero-trust security, governance, and compliance framework for fully secure GenAI and Agentic infrastructure. Provides custom guardrails for agents and models, model weight and infrastructure protection, active and passive monitoring, enterprise-grade RBAC, user management, observability, compliance tracking, and robust FinOps controls, rate limiting and usage management.

WHY BUD AI FOUNDRY

AI Success Without Scarce AI Talent

Bud AI Foundry abstract technical complexity, enabling teams to deliver AI outcomes without relying on scarce, expensive specialists.

Low Barrier to Entry

Start GenAI on existing CPU infrastructure to validate use cases quickly, then scale seamlessly to GPUs only when needed.

No more GenAI Fragmentation

Replace fragmented AI stacks that drive compliance risk, governance gaps, and cost leakage with a single, unified AI Foundry.

The Cost Advantage

Bud is engineered for efficiency. Automated optimization, caching, and compression maximize every dollar spent.

Faster Go-to-Market

Build and deploy GenAI faster using one platform that supports both private and cloud models through a unified interface.

Continuously Learning AI

Bud's proprietary inference-time learning enables continuous model adaptation without costly retraining.

Enterprise-grade Security & Compliance

Bud SENTRY delivers zero-trust AI security with built-in compliance, auditability, and governance for regulated environments.

Not just for AI Builders, but also for AI Consumers

An end-to-end platform designed not only for building AI, but also for securely consuming and operationalizing AI across the enterprise.

BUILT DIFFERENT. OUR TECHNOLOGY USPS

Performance Advantage

Bud delivers ~3X better performance on NVIDIA GPUs & ~1.5X perf on other hardware

Inference Stability

Up to 43% lower error rates versus vLLM, TEI, and Infinity in production workloads.

Cold Start

12X faster cold starts for on-demand scaling and serverless AI deployments.

Fastest AI Gateway

Sub-1ms latency makes Bud the fastest AI gateway for enterprise-grade inference.

Continuous Learning

Agents learn by doing, improving automatically without manual retraining cycles.

Model Customization

Continuously personalize models on CPUs without fine-tuning, enabling adaptive intelligence.

Bud SENTRY

Bud SENTRY ensures full zero-trust security from model onboarding to inference.

Prompt & Token Optim

Save up to 56% tokens with intelligent prompt and runtime optimization.

Guardrails

Run guardrails on commodity CPUs at 100X better perf (vs A100 GPUs) with the same accuracy.

Scalability

GPU-optimized heterogeneous scaling with request-aware bin packing for efficient operations.

Max Infra Utilization

Multi-tiered heterogenous virtualisation technology with bin packing.

NL to Agent

Create production-ready agents directly using natural language prompts without orchestration.

IMPACT CASE STUDIES

Hex1 - India's First Commercially Usable Open-Source Indic LLM

Bud Ecosystem pioneers innovative new Indic LLM with AMD. The team achieves faster training for India's first commercially usable open-source Indic LLM using 40% fewer GPUs on Azure with instances powered by AMD GPUs. Hex1 is a 4-billion parameter language model specifically optimized for Indian languages including Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, and Malayalam.

"AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs provide us a sweet spot where we save cost, train much faster, and have the right platform to meet our requirements." — Linson Joseph, CSO, Bud Ecosystem

Ralph Lauren - Personalized Stylist Agent

The case study evaluates the performance of a personalized Stylist agent developed for Ralph Lauren, comparing an OpenAI-based implementation with one built using the Bud stack.

	TCO	Performance	Accuracy
OpenAI	$220K per month	20 Sec	85.46%
With Bud	$40K per month	6 Sec	85.44%

Impact: Same Accuracy, Better Performance, Better TCO & 6.5X faster GTM

Infosys - Information Retrieval Agent

The case study evaluates the performance of an information retrieval agent of Infosys, comparing an OpenAI GPT-4o-based implementation with one deployed using the Bud stack.

Use Case	SLO	Cost Savings	Accuracy
RAG	Met	87.6% cheaper	Factual 0.91
NL-to-SQL	Met	76% cheaper	95%
NL-to-Insights	Met	85% cheaper	Factual 0.95
Translation	Met	90.7% cheaper	Very high fidelity

AZURE FOUNDRY VS BUD + DELL AI FOUNDRY

A Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis comparing Azure AI Foundry with Bud + Dell AI Foundry for deploying enterprise AI applications. The results compare Azure AI Foundry (using GPT-4o API, Azure Speech Services, and Azure Neural TTS with experiments running on 3× L4 + 1× A10 PAYG) against a self-hosted GPT-OSS 20B deployment using Bud + Dell AI Foundry with self-hosted Whisper and XTTS (FCSP), running on 3× A100 + 2× A10 (3-year RI).

Results

Bud + Dell AI Foundry delivers 51% lower total cost of ownership compared to Azure Foundry offerings. Its multi-cloud, multi-hardware, and multi-deployment architecture ensures seamless scaling without risks of hardware or model unavailability.

BUILT FOR SOVEREIGN/PRIVATE AI

As enterprises and governments move from AI experimentation to production, the limitations of public and shared AI platforms are becoming clear. AI Foundry, powered by Dell and Bud, addresses these challenges by enabling organizations to build and operate GenAI systems within their own controlled environments, on infrastructure they own and govern. Together, Dell and Bud enable organizations to design, deploy, and operate sovereign GenAI systems with end-to-end control over: Data, Models, Infrastructure, Cost & Governance

Data Sovereignty and Security by Design

Bud, Dell AI foundry keeps sensitive data on-prem or private, meeting strict residency, compliance, and governance needs for highly regulated industries.

Full Control Across the AI Lifecycle

With Dell infrastructure and Bud AI Foundry, enterprises govern models, training, deployment, scaling, access, and auditability to align AI with enterprise risk and operations.

Predictable Cost and Performance

Private AI delivers predictable costs at scale. Dell AI infrastructure and Bud AI Foundry ensure efficient training, inference, and orchestration without token-based billing surprises.

Enable GenAI Across Your Enterprise SECURELY, ECONOMICALLY, AT SCALE

Bud for Enterprises is a unified AI Foundry that lets organizations deploy, govern, and scale GenAI across teams using their existing infrastructure, without sacrificing performance, security, or cost control.

Enterprise-Grade Governance

Deploy GenAI across teams with centralized access control, usage tracking, rate limits, and policy-driven governance.

Less TCO, Proven Performance

Achieve industry-leading cost efficiency through CPU-first and heterogeneous optimization.

Built-In Tools, Agents & MCPs

Make your organization AI-ready instantly with pre-integrated agents, tools, and 1000+ MCPs.

Deploy Now. Scale Later.

Start with existing CPU infrastructure, deploy on-prem or cloud, and scale to GPUs or hybrid environments as value grows.

Enabling CSPs to be AI NATIVE NEO-CLOUD

Bud for Cloud Service Providers is an end-to-end AI Foundry that allows CSPs to transform raw infrastructure into revenue-generating GenAI services—maximizing hardware utilization while delivering secure, scalable AI to customers.

Beyond Bare Metal

An end-to-end AI foundry for the CSP and their customers with deployment, scaling, compliance, evaluations, management, agents and more.

Maximize H/W Utilization

Increase tokens per dollar by running GenAI efficiently across CPUs and GPUs, eliminating idle capacity and hardware lock-in.

Pre-built Agents

Access to 1.9K BUD prebuilt agents and usecases that can easily be ported to work with SLMs or LLMs.

White Glove Services

Model training & Inference at scale, Guaranteed SLOs, Agent development & Management, Hardware sizing help, L2/L3 Technology support.

Enabling Truly Sovereign GenAI FOR GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC SECTOR

Bud's secure, end-to-end AI Foundry that enables governments to deploy, govern, and scale GenAI within national boundaries, ensuring data sovereignty, compliance, and cost efficiency at scale.

Truly Sovereign GenAI

Deploy GenAI fully within national infrastructure, ensuring complete control over data, models, and AI operations with no external dependencies.

Indic Language-Ready Models

Support Indian languages and regional use cases with Indic-optimized models, enabling inclusive, citizen-facing AI across departments.

On-Prem & Air-Gapped

Run GenAI in on-prem or fully air-gapped environments, meeting the strictest security, defense, and regulatory requirements.

Built-In Tools & MCPs

Enable rapid adoption with pre-integrated agents, tools, and MCPs—allowing departments to build, govern, and deploy AI safely and quickly.

Sovereign AIDelivered

BUD AI FOUNDRY IS THE OPERATING LAYER FOR ENTERPRISE GENAI. A UNIFIED PLATFORM TO EXPERIMENT, BUILD, SCALE, AND CONSUME PRIVATE AND CLOUD AI MODELS AND AGENTS.

WHY ENTERPRISE AIADOPTION FAILS

FRAGMENTED. FRAGILE.FAILING.