Enhancement helps users create more relevant and impactful models
April 24, 2025 – Weights & Biases (W&B) is excited to announce our strategic business collaboration with NTT DATA to enhance the capabilities of generative AI development. Through this collaboration, W&B’s advanced GenAIOps platform consisting of W&B Models and W&B Weave, will be hosted at NTT DATA’s Generative AI Technology Hub (NTT DATA GenAI Tech Hub). The W&B platform is now instantly accessible to NTT DATA’s engineers and researchers who are fine-tuning large language models and building LLM applications. In this highly changeable market environment, we are committed to continue building best-in-class tools to accelerate NTT DATA’s AI innovation.
NTT DATA GenAI Tech Hub is a global repository of reusable GenAI building blocks, designed to accelerate development tasks and deployment of GenAI applications at scale. NTT DATA GenAI Tech Hub delivers higher efficiency with ready-to-use assets and modular components, empowering enterprises with AI-driven solutions faster and more cost-effectively. With centralized access to tools and accelerators, NTT DATA GenAI Tech Hub allows teams to focus on value creation, reducing time-to-market and development costs while ensuring streamlined governance and compliance. By collaborating with Weights & Biases, NTT DATA has enhanced capabilities even further, allowing more domain-specific data models.
NTT DATA has placed GenAI at the core of its innovation strategy, focusing on fine-tuning LLMs and Small Language Models (SLMs) to meet specific business requirements. By customizing pre-trained AI models, NTT DATA delivers tailored solutions that effectively address real-world client challenges with efficiency and precision. Furthermore, with this new capacity for creating highly focused LLMs and SLMs, NTT DATA will enhance Smart AI Agents Platform/Agentic AI solution, achieving high performance, accuracy, and quality at a lower cost.
NTT DATA conducted a comprehensive Proof of Value assessment to evaluate the effectiveness of Weights & Biases’ tools in improving training traceability and results analysis. The assessment utilized W&B Models and W&B Weave, demonstrating optimized development workflows and insights. Key findings highlighted seamless integration with third-party libraries and ease of tool incorporation into existing components for LLM evaluation, streamlining workflows and boosting efficiency.
The Weights & Biases tool integration into NTT DATA GenAI Tech Hub will help heighten synergistic effects and enterprise innovation. AI teams are empowered to overcome complex development challenges while delivering transformative, high-impact solutions. Combining NTT DATA’s AI expertise and GenAI Tech Hub platform with the robust tools and infrastructure of Weights & Biases represents a game-changing approach to scaling AI advancement and to addressing evolving client needs.
Lukas Biewald, CEO, Weights & Biases – “Adoption of W&B at NTT DATA marks an exciting milestone in our mission to empower AI engineers creating the next generation of AI applications. This collaboration will allow NTT DATA’s global teams to focus on solving their customers’ problems, fine-tuning models faster into their domains with greater precision, and building AI applications with observability.”
“The enhanced NTT DATA GenAI Tech Hub, powered by our collaboration with Weights & Biases, enables advanced fine-tuning of LLMs and SLMs to meet specific business needs. This will significantly boost our Agentic AI solution, delivering higher performance and accuracy, and accelerate our customers’ transformation to AI-driven business models,” said Kenji Motohashi and Carlos Galve Pellicero, Co-Heads of the Global Generative AI Office, NTT DATA.
About Weight & Biases
Weights & Biases is the AI developer platform powering the generative AI industry. Over 1,300 organizations worldwide — including AstraZeneca, Canva, NVIDIA, Snowflake, Square, Toyota, and Wayve — and more than 30 foundation model builders, such as OpenAI, Meta, and Cohere, rely on Weights & Biases as their system of record for training and fine-tuning AI models and developing AI applications with confidence. Headquartered in San Francisco with a global presence, Weights & Biases is backed by leading investors, including Coatue, Felicis Ventures, BOND, Insight Partners, Bloomberg Beta, and NVIDIA.
About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. Visit us at nttdata.com