Cisco To Acquire AI Startup NeuralFabric For GenAI Push

Cisco To Acquire AI Startup NeuralFabric For GenAI Push

By Gina Narcisi
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The tech giant says that NeuralFabric’s technology will work within Cisco’s AI Canvas, a generative AI user interface introduced earlier this year.


Cisco Systems intends to buy enterprise AI platform company NeuralFabric Corp. as the tech giant grows its generative AI prowess, the companies revealed Thursday.

Seattle-based NeuralFabric was founded in 2023 by former Microsoft engineers. The startup has “cracked” the code on data sovereignty as a challenge to AI adoption, said DJ Sampath, vice president of product, AI software and platform for Cisco, in a blog post about the acquisition.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

NeuralFabric’s generative AI platform lets organizations develop domain-specific small language models (SLMs) using their own proprietary data that’s deployable across SaaS and on-premise environments,…