In a recent development, o9 has expanded its collaboration with Microsoft to enhance the capabilities of its GenAI technology within the o9 digital brain planning platform. This collaboration involves integrating Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service applications with the o9 Digital Brain to boost its AI-powered planning features.
The Azure OpenAI Service offers REST API access to OpenAI’s advanced large language models, including GPT-4, GPT-3.5-Turbo, and the Embeddings model series. These models can be utilized for content generation, summarization, image understanding, semantic search, and natural language-to-code translation.
o9’s Digital Brain is known for its ability to convert both structured and unstructured data into knowledge using its proprietary Enterprise Knowledge Graph (EKG) technology. By incorporating LLMs from Azure OpenAI Service, the o9 Digital Brain can now digitize and link the organizational ‘tribal knowledge’ stored in various platforms like Microsoft Outlook email, Word documents, PowerPoint slides, and Teams chat systems. This enables planners to access expert insights derived from this wealth of information.
Moreover, o9’s AI service leverages Azure OpenAI Service to convert users’ natural language queries into its integrated business planning language (IBPL) using the platform’s domain-specific knowledge models. The use of Azure OpenAI Service’s embeddings enhances semantic searches across the Enterprise Knowledge Graph, leading to more precise and relevant results.
Furthermore, the integration of digital assistant workflows using Azure OpenAI Service’s chat-completion features enables efficient and intelligent automation within enterprise planning operations. This empowers supply chain planners to utilize the o9 Digital Brain’s domain expertise to make informed decisions in real-time, enhancing the overall efficiency of planning processes.
Chakri Gottemukkala, Co-founder, and CEO of o9, expressed excitement about the collaboration, stating that generative AI technologies and APIs will help planning teams leverage domain knowledge for real-time decision-making, thereby streamlining supply chain processes. Dominik Wee, Corporate Vice President of Manufacturing & Mobility at Microsoft, highlighted the partnership’s goal of enabling manufacturers to transform data into actionable insights, facilitating quicker decision-making and optimized planning processes.
This collaboration between o9 and Microsoft signifies a step towards making generative AI capabilities more accessible to companies, promoting enhanced efficiency and decision-making within supply chain operations.
