View Systems Inc. today announced the general availability of its flagship offering, a data management platform called View AI that is optimized to power artificial intelligence workloads.

The venture-backed startup also disclosed that it has joined the AI Platform Alliance. This is an industry group that was formed last year by Ampere Computing Inc., a server processor supplier, and about a half-dozen other chipmakers. The consortium focuses on making AI hardware more efficient and sustainable.

Pine, Colorado-based View is led by Chief Executive Joel Christner. He was previously a distinguished engineer at Dell Technologies Inc., where he led several research programs focused on data management software and AI. View’s other co-founders have held executives roles at enterprise tech companies and law firms.

View AI, the product that the company launched into general availability today, is a data management platform geared toward AI use cases. It can ingest files from a company’s internal systems, harmonize them into a single format and make them available to machine learning models for processing. There’s also a built-in chatbot that enables users to query the data with natural language prompts.

It’s built on a technology that the company calls Universal Data Representation, or UDI. The technology analyzes each business document uploaded by the user and extracts key elements as paragraphs. UDI then performs chunking, which is the process of splitting data into smaller pieces to make it easier for language models to understand.

View AI promises to simplify AI processing in other ways as well. The platform can turn customers’ files into embeddings, the mathematical structures that neural networks use to store and analyze information. It also highlights relationships between documents, such as whether they were originally stored in the same repository, to give AI applications a more complete picture of the data.

The software can optionally create an inverted index for the files it processes. This is a kind of spreadsheet that enables applications to specify a word, phrase or number and find all the business documents that contain it. An inverted index is one of the building blocks necessary to equip an AI service with natural language search features. 

According to View, its platform is capable of running both in the cloud and on-premises. The software makes the data it ingests available through an application programming interface that companies can integrate into their AI software with relative ease.

“Users can connect, process, search and chat with data assets within an hour, all without giving up control of their data or sending it outside of their organization,” Christner said.

View previously disclosed that it plans to offer its platform under two sales models. The software maker will provide pay-as-you-go pricing tied to the amount of information that a customer processes. Additionally, View intends to promote its platform through go-to-market partnerships with data center infrastructure suppliers. 

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