At Broadcom’s Tanzu Division, we’re committed to empowering your AI-native transformation. Our strategy leverages the robust and scalable foundation of VMware Tanzu Platform, our Cloud Foundry-based application platform, enabling you to quickly adopt cutting-edge technologies and stay ahead of evolving AI trends. We provide developers with access to all the innovation they need to deliver AI applications more safely and securely, preparing you to adapt to market changes.
At VMware Explore 2025, the Tanzu team is unveiling a fast and easy way to try the features in Tanzu Platform designed for building and deploying AI applications. The AI Starter Kit for Tanzu Platform is an adoption path, including auto-installation and reference architectures, specifically designed to accelerate development of production-ready AI applications. It’s a carefully developed combination of software and expert guidance that goes beyond basic capabilities, offering valuable resources to simplify your AI journey.
The complimentary kit includes custom code for fast, efficient, and automated installation of Tanzu Platform for small-foundation deployments as well as detailed reference architecture and sample applications to guide you through every stage of architecting your AI applications. We built this adoption path based on our experience guiding thousands of teams through complex digital transformation initiatives. Our comprehensive approach based on people, processes, and technology transformation can reduce complexity for AI initiatives so that organizations can more confidently and efficiently move toward AI native.
Who can benefit from the AI Starter Kit for Tanzu Platform?
The AI Starter Kit is designed for multiple roles and functions, from practitioners to managers. Accelerating AI application delivery relies on the collaborative efforts of several key stakeholders:
- AI subject matter experts (SMEs) – These experts bring deep domain knowledge to certify AI models, validate data, and ensure that AI solutions effectively address business challenges. The AI Starter Kit can help AI SMEs and data teams test models and establish patterns for continuous improvement. This can allow AI SMEs to show early impact, confirm production readiness, and optimize performance.
- Developers – As the primary builders of AI applications, developers will find the AI Starter Kit and its guidelines incredibly useful for rapid prototyping, development, and deployment of AI-powered features and applications. Developers can quickly access new AI models without needing to become experts or facing deployment delays due to support tickets. They can have approved models readily available in a library curated by AI SMEs.
- Platform engineering teams – Responsible for infrastructure and operational stability, these teams can benefit from the AI Starter Kit’s automated small-foundation installation and reference architecture. This can allows them to quickly provision and manage environments for AI applications. Platform engineers gain a more consistent, secure deployment process, enabling better governance, data protection, and efficient resource management and enabling them to build scalable AI patterns for production. Benefits include smooth AI prototyping and improved feedback loops for faster iteration.
- C-level executives – Senior executives recognize AI’s potential for revenue growth through innovative customer experiences. However, they also need to optimize AI model and hardware flexibility while controlling costs. The AI Starter Kit enables IT leaders to justify AI investments by supporting small-scale deployments before wider rollout. This helps identify optimal strategies for AI at scale, proactively manage exploration costs, and reduce reliance on specific GPUs.
Accelerate your AI-native transformation and facilitate more seamless cross-team collaboration through the AI Starter Kit for Tanzu Platform. By minimizing bottlenecks, optimizing resources, and enabling the entire AI development and deployment lifecycle to be more efficient with a proven Cloud Foundry-based platform, organizations can achieve business objectives faster, leading to quicker innovation and a competitive edge.
Cloud Foundry: Built for today’s AI needs
Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is currently experiencing a resurgence among organizations seeking predictable, stable, and cost-effective AI exploration tools. According to our recent independent survey of 255 CIOs, 58 percent stated they are “adopting a PaaS strategy to streamline development.” Tanzu Platform is a PaaS with inherent consistency, streamlined operations, and simplified deployment mechanisms, which is perfectly suited for the demands of modern AI app development.
Tanzu Platform is built on Cloud Foundry, which is known for its developer-friendly experience. With Tanzu Platform, you don’t need Docker files, mountains of YAML, or complex infrastructure setups for AI apps. Tanzu Platform can provide the consistency needed to iterate, refine, and optimize AI applications through more frequent deployments than traditional applications. Tanzu Platform enables preconfigured environments to significantly speed up this iteration process, allowing organizations to focus on innovation at the application layer rather than infrastructure administration.
For organizations that are already grappling with “shadow AI,” speed and simplicity of AI adoption can provide a significant mitigation strategy. By simply enabling the GenAI services tile in your existing instance of Tanzu Platform, you can offer a faster and easier way to officially begin using AI—app developers don’t need to learn new tools, build new deployment paths, or use unsecured AI services. Since it’s easy to adopt, development teams are more likely to actually use the platform instead of relying on their own makeshift solutions.
Make AI adoption easy and compliant
The AI Starter Kit for Tanzu Platform is now available for current Tanzu Platform customers who want to get started building AI applications. The kit includes automated scripts, reference architecture, and expert guidance to help you start building AI applications quickly and safely.
If you are not currently a Tanzu customer, download the 90-day trial of Tanzu Platform to try out the capabilities. Contact the Tanzu team for more information.
