Democratizing Generative AI for a More Accessible and Innovative Future

Bud Ecosystem is shifting the landscape of generative AI, driven by a simple yet powerful goal: to democratize advanced AI for enterprises of every size. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in New York, with research and development in Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram, Bud is making waves across the technology sector by breaking down barriers of cost and accessibility. The company’s vision is to make generative AI affordable, scalable, and sustainable, empowering businesses and researchers to innovate without limits.

Bud’s radical approach to AI is distinct from traditional models that rely on expensive, scarce Graphics Processing Units. Bud has developed the Bud Runtime, a platform that enables generative AI deployment on Central Processing Units and heterogeneous hardware clusters, including CPUs, GPUs, Tensor Processing Units, and Neural Processing Units. This agentic, forward-thinking strategy addresses the global GPU shortage and significantly reduces deployment costs to as low as $200 per month. Bud’s AI Foundry also elevates the enterprise experience by integrating model deployment, inference optimization, guardrails, analytics, and governance into a single, enterprise-grade platform. The result is a total cost of ownership that is six to eight times lower than traditional cloud solutions, making AI adoption feasible for startups, enterprises, and researchers alike. 

Bud Ecosystem’s AI is applied across all areas of product development, operations, sales, marketing, and workforce enablement, with teams leveraging a blend of assistant-led, agent-augmented, and agent-operated AI. This means AI agents work alongside teams, helping individuals accelerate tasks and manage workflows with human oversight. Governance is managed with precision under the leadership of the Chief Technology Officer, ensuring that AI deployments are secure, ethical, and aligned with Bud’s vision. Strategic partnerships with Intel, Microsoft, Infosys, and LTIMindtree have amplified Bud’s reach, enabling the company to commoditize generative AI on a global scale.

Bud’s innovations have reduced capital and operational expenses for AI adoption, enabling organizations to run advanced workloads without the need for costly GPUs. The company has contributed over 20 open-source models, including large language and diffusion models, and has topped the Hugging Face leaderboard with a model comparable to GPT-3.5. These achievements are not just quantitative; they represent a fundamental shift in how businesses access, deploy, and benefit from AI. Bud Ecosystem’s leadership in AI is defined by its relentless pursuit of accessibility, affordability, and impact. Taken together, Bud Ecosystem’s investments represent a new chapter in intelligent computing, where AI and human creativity combine to help businesses, researchers, and creators reach new horizons.

“At Bud, our mission is simple — to democratize GenAI by commoditizing it. We believe that access to this transformative technology should be as universal as access to electricity or the internet. By breaking down the barriers of cost, infrastructure, and technical complexity, we’re enabling every organization to innovate, create, and compete on a truly level playing field.”

Jithin VG
Founder & Chief Executive Officer