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Somerset-headquartered SHI International announced Oct. 9 a multimillion-dollar investment in the state-of-the-art AI & Cyber Labs here in the Garden State.

The new facility is co-located in SHI’s Ridge Data Center Factory in Piscataway. The site houses the leading technology solutions provider’s flagship among a global network of four Data Center Factories.

Key features of the new AI & Cyber Labs facility include:

• Offers comprehensive, next-generation generative AI capabilities, supporting customers from ideation and prototyping services to full datacenter-scale infrastructure delivery; also offers access to AI experts
• In collaboration with leading AI technology partners, will enable customers to experiment with diverse AI and cyber use cases, virtually any large language model (LLM) and various infrastructure configurations in a secure, controlled environment
• Equipped with NVIDIA accelerated computing and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform
• At launch, offers:
  • • AI readiness and program consulting
    • Data assessment workshops
    • Advanced generative AI services covering LLM fine-tuning, customer RAG integration, distributed machine learning implementation and end-user adoption training

Currently, AI & Cyber Labs offers services across every major public cloud provider. The new physical facility expects to officially open in the first quarter of 2025.

Turnkey tools

“The SHI AI & Cyber Labs facility, equipped with NVIDIA accelerated computing and the full NVIDIA AI stack, provides organizations with the technologies and expertise needed to harness the transformative power of generative AI and drive innovation across industries,” said Craig Weinstein, vice president of the Americas partner organization at NVIDIA.

SHI says the design of the new labs aims to meet customers at any stage of their AI journey. Additionally, the company can now deliver a fully integrated turnkey AI solution.

“The introduction of SHI’s AI & Cyber Labs will empower many organizations to bring both clarity and speed to their AI efforts, helping them identify use cases with strong ROI and the best way to achieve the shortest time to value,” said SHI President and CEO Thai Lee. “With the new AI and Cyber Labs, we are fulfilling our ongoing promise to help our customers solve what’s next.”

“Every organization is on a unique AI journey,” said Jack Hogan, vice president of advanced growth technologies at SHI. “SHI’s next-generation generative AI lab allows SHI to meet customers where they are on that journey – at any stage or onramp, through a consultative, collaborative, experimentation-as-a-service approach, guiding them toward their desired business outcome while achieving their ROI goals.”

More information is available here.

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