A New Era

Humans differentiate by their desire to win. If ancient people won by natural abundances and medieval people won by armies, modern day people win by technology. Today, faster adoption of new technology is key to staying ahead of the curve. But this has not been easy since new technology brings in new pain. Industrial age took a hundred years to mature, and internet/cloud computing took two decades to become mainstream. Will generative AI be different?

Rise of AI Machines

Both industrial age and cloud computing were built on the premise of doing more work, i.e., scaling the number of people or the number of compute servers. On the other hand, artificial intelligence (AI) is rooted in doing smart work, i.e., figure out what to do before doing it at scale. This is music for modern businesses that are far too complex and suffer from lack of decision making on a daily basis, leading to the existential question of how to win. AI can look into the past and learn patterns that could be used for future decisions. Generative AI can further generate new data points that never existed, opening up brand new possibilities for the business. No wonder the massive excitement in generative AI is filled with the belief that this new technology can help people win like never before.

Tursio Story

Every single company today wants to be an AI company. They want to win by working smarter, and leveraging generative AI is a no brainer. However, the question is how to adopt generative AI. While countless foundation models and related tooling are screaming off the shelves, enterprises are still figuring out where to start from. It turns out that AI is only as good as the data it is trained on, and for enterprises, the data lives in databases. The prevailing wisdom is to move data to a new generative AI stack for fine-tuning, retrieval augmentation, or prompting. Unfortunately, this introduces complexity, cost, and risk.

Turning databases into generative AI machines. We believe that instead of moving data out, AI should come to the data. And today, I am happy to announce Tursio, which is on a mission to turn enterprise databases into generative AI machines. This requires us to reimagine the existing database architectures and make them work for the new age generative AI workload. We started on this mission a year and a half ago, and having talked to hundreds of customers, we are convinced that databases are the right home for generative AI, bringing this new technology from lab to market and enabling enterprises to drive new efficiencies and experiences in their business. Our goal is to meet these customers where they are, right within their cloud, hybrid, or on-premise database environments.

The Tursions

A lot has gone into bringing Tursio to life and here are few snapshots behind the scenes.

Exciting times at Tursio, where the journey has just begun. Looking forward to helping people win!