https://budecosystem.com/news Announcements, milestones and press releases from Bud Ecosystem, maker of the Bud Novaria AI OS. en https://budecosystem.com/assets/logo/Bud_RGB_icon_color.png https://budecosystem.com/news https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-launches-bud-novaria-ai-operating-system https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-launches-bud-novaria-ai-operating-system Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 Product launch Press release One native stack from silicon to agents, across GPUs, CPUs, HPUs, NPUs and TPUs. In production, a global fashion brand's AI bill fell from $220K to $40K a month at the same accuracy. https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-launches-bud-agent-to-bring-recursive-intelligence-to-enterprise-ai https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-launches-bud-agent-to-bring-recursive-intelligence-to-enterprise-ai Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Product An agent that builds agents. Bud Agent translates intent into deployed systems, then keeps watching them — using what it learns from one lifecycle to improve the next. https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-achieves-soc-2-type-ii-attestation-for-its-enterprise-ai-platform https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-achieves-soc-2-type-ii-attestation-for-its-enterprise-ai-platform Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Certification & Membership 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. https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-and-virestech-announce-strategic-partnership-to-accelerate-enterprise-ai https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-and-virestech-announce-strategic-partnership-to-accelerate-enterprise-ai Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Partnership A certified systems integrator for regulated markets. “Regulated enterprises are not anti-AI — they are pro-accountability.” https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-wins-efy-rd-award-for-breakthrough-cpu-native-ai-architecture https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-wins-efy-rd-award-for-breakthrough-cpu-native-ai-architecture Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Award & Recognition 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. https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-named-a-microsoft-ai-first-mover-for-fy26 https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-named-a-microsoft-ai-first-mover-for-fy26 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Award & Recognition 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. https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-joins-the-amd-instinct-ai-hpc-software-ecosystem https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-joins-the-amd-instinct-ai-hpc-software-ecosystem Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Certification & Membership 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. https://budecosystem.com/news/introducing-bud-sentinel-guardrail-system-built-on-resource-aware-attention https://budecosystem.com/news/introducing-bud-sentinel-guardrail-system-built-on-resource-aware-attention Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Product 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. https://budecosystem.com/news/netweb-technologies-and-bud-ecosystem-partner-to-democratize-ai-for-every-indian-organization https://budecosystem.com/news/netweb-technologies-and-bud-ecosystem-partner-to-democratize-ai-for-every-indian-organization Thu, 09 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Partnership Partnership with two-decade "Make-in-India" HPC manufacturer Netweb to tackle cost, connectivity, and talent barriers with hardware-agnostic GenAI and optimized SLMs. https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-and-datalabs-forge-strategic-partnership-to-accelerate-enterprise-adoption-of-multi-vertical-genai-agents https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-and-datalabs-forge-strategic-partnership-to-accelerate-enterprise-adoption-of-multi-vertical-genai-agents Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Partnership Combines Bud's AI Foundry infrastructure and runtime with DataLabs' domain-specific agent portfolio to deliver multi-vertical GenAI agents to enterprises worldwide. https://budecosystem.com/news/nxtgen-partners-with-bud-ecosystem-to-drive-genai-adoption-for-enterprises https://budecosystem.com/news/nxtgen-partners-with-bud-ecosystem-to-drive-genai-adoption-for-enterprises Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Partnership 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. https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-joins-opea-to-accelerate-open-scalable-genai-for-enterprises https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-joins-opea-to-accelerate-open-scalable-genai-for-enterprises Thu, 12 Jun 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Certification & Membership 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. https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-intel-and-microsoft-to-collaborate-on-enabling-cost-effective-genai-deployment-on-azure https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-intel-and-microsoft-to-collaborate-on-enabling-cost-effective-genai-deployment-on-azure Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Partnership 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. https://budecosystem.com/news/introducing-bud-latent-high-performance-inference-engine-for-embeddings-models https://budecosystem.com/news/introducing-bud-latent-high-performance-inference-engine-for-embeddings-models Wed, 12 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Product A purpose-built embeddings inference engine designed to eliminate the high error rates competing engines hit at long context lengths. https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-achieves-red-hat-openshift-certification-advancing-enterprise-genai-adoption https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-achieves-red-hat-openshift-certification-advancing-enterprise-genai-adoption Thu, 30 Jan 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Certification & Membership Bud Runtime earns Red Hat OpenShift certification, validating compatibility and performance for enterprise AI serving and inference across OpenShift environments. https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-wins-breakthrough-innovation-award-from-intel https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-wins-breakthrough-innovation-award-from-intel Sat, 30 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Award & Recognition 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. https://budecosystem.com/news/intel-and-bud-forge-partnership-to-accelerate-enterprise-gen-ai https://budecosystem.com/news/intel-and-bud-forge-partnership-to-accelerate-enterprise-gen-ai Fri, 29 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Partnership GPU-class performance on CPU architecture. A joint benchmarking and optimisation effort across Xeon, MTL and Gaudi. https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-and-infosys-forge-strategic-partnership-to-accelerate-enterprise-genai-adoption https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-and-infosys-forge-strategic-partnership-to-accelerate-enterprise-genai-adoption Thu, 28 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Partnership A hardware-agnostic runtime, taken to market through Infosys’ consulting and delivery practice. https://budecosystem.com/news/intel-tech-mahindra-and-bud-ecosystem-collaborate-on-benchmarking-project-indus https://budecosystem.com/news/intel-tech-mahindra-and-bud-ecosystem-collaborate-on-benchmarking-project-indus Wed, 27 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Partnership Tech Mahindra’s Indic language model, measured on Intel AI hardware, served by Bud Runtime. https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-launches-bud-runtime-universal-genai-inference-engine https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-launches-bud-runtime-universal-genai-inference-engine Wed, 27 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Product One stack across CPUs, GPUs and accelerators — up to 130% better cloud inference performance, and 60–200% more throughput on CPUs. https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystems-hybrid-llm-technology-is-currently-intel-accelerated https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystems-hybrid-llm-technology-is-currently-intel-accelerated Tue, 26 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Product Domain-specific SLMs on Intel CPUs take the routine traffic; the cloud LLM is called only when it is needed. https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-introduces-bud-code-millennials-open-source-sota-code-models https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-introduces-bud-code-millennials-open-source-sota-code-models Mon, 25 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Product 80.48% pass@1 on HumanEval for the 34B model, ahead of Gemini Ultra, Claude and GPT-3.5. https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-open-sourced-genz-a-70b-llm-with-commercial-license https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-ecosystem-open-sourced-genz-a-70b-llm-with-commercial-license Fri, 22 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Product An instruction-fine-tuned 70B model under a commercial licence, tuned for reasoning, role-play and writing. https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-unveils-sql-millennials-open-source-text-to-sql-translation-model https://budecosystem.com/news/bud-unveils-sql-millennials-open-source-text-to-sql-translation-model Wed, 20 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Product Ask a database a question in plain language — an open-source text-to-SQL model for teams without a SQL specialist.