Australia's Commonwealth Bank (CBA) is set to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) instance to create an "artificial intelligence (AI) factory."
CBA will use AWS' EC2 P5 instances within the Sydney region. EC2 P5 instances were launched in July 2023 and provide customers with access to Nvidia H100 GPUs.
In a statement, CBA said: “The AI factory will enable employees to conduct safe testing and development of AI solutions by providing the compute power required to fine-tune and train AI LLMs at increased speeds,” the bank said in a statement.
“This will allow CommBank to provide hyper-personalized and contextualized experiences for customers and communities, more quickly and at scale.”
Via the P5 instances, machine learning applications can use the Nvidia Collective Communications Library to access up to 20,000 H100 GPUs in a single EC2 UltraCluster.
The move is hoped to help the bank accelerate the operation of generative AI, and will also see CBA using Amazon SageMaker, a machine learning managed service.
In 2023, CBA set up an environment with H20.ai to experiment with large language models, dubbed CommBank Gen.ai Studio, and found more than 50 generative AI use cases.
In 2018, CBA was forced to apologize for failing to disclose the loss of 12 million user records in 2016, following an investigation that revealed the tapes on which the information was stored were mishandled by the subcontractor paid to destroy them.
CBA has previously announced plans for a bank-wide transition to the public cloud.
