Enterprise software company SAP has partnered with Google Cloud, Meta Platforms, Microsoft and others to advance its AI products, putting UNESCO ethics at the heart of its work in the field.
The partnership, announced by the Germany-based software company at its annual SAP Sapphire conference, also includes Mistral AI, Nvidia and AWS and will take technology development and usage to a new level, the company said.
SAP CEO and board member Christian Klein said the AI innovations announced at the event will “redefine how companies operate” and advance the company's focus on releasing breakthrough technologies.
Before detailing its latest and expanded partnership, SAP highlighted its existing offerings, including AI-generated reporting and predictive capabilities.
Topping the list is the addition of AWS, Meta and Mistral AI large-scale language models to the SAP Business Technology Platform, a move the company says will simplify the creation of generative AI (genAI) use cases in existing applications.
SAP is also strengthening its Joule genAI offering through an integration with Microsoft's Copilot, a partnership the company said will provide a unified experience within workflows and “seamless access” to details about interactions between the two companies' business applications.
The expanded collaboration with Google Cloud aims to improve supply chain management, integrating Joule and related SAP planning products with the search giant's Gemini AI assistant and cloud data services.
The company said the partnership “pushes the boundaries of what genAI can do at an enterprise level,” but stressed that integrity remains a key concern, as it is committed to following the 10 principles of the UNESCO Recommendation on AI Ethics.
UNESCO says the program will give business, governments and academia access to information on the “most pressing challenges” posed by AI, as well as provide a lab to detail best practices on issues such as “ethics, governance and responsible innovation.”
