The UKA Group specialises in renewable energy and has access to a secure, regulation-compliant, cloud-based tool for Generative AI
Deutsche Telekom (DT) has signed up its first Business GPT customer, the UKA Group. The company specialises in renewal energy projects and now has access to generative AI-enabled (GenAI) tool.
Details of how UKA plans to use the tool are not specific: “With this solution, UKA offers its employees an application for everyday use and can also test innovative use cases within its specialist departments. In future, it will be possible to connect company applications directly via programming interfaces.”
Secure cloud
DT says the application is tested for IT security and data protection and hosted on Telekom’s cloud environments. This means UKA retains control of its data in accordance with the GDPR and German data protection law. Telekom MMS ensures that UKA employees can enter company data securely and use it on all end devices.
Business GPT is browser based and UKA’s employees can access it via their own intranet. According to DT, “This greatly shortens the path from business case to productive usage”.
The tool is multilingual and so useful for international organisations like UKA.
DT runs the tool on secure cloud environments in Europe, so companies can use the GPT 3.5 and GPT 4.0 models from Microsoft Azure OpenAI Services in a shielded area.
The product was originally developed for use by DT’s employees, with security, data protection and employee representation built in. After successful internal implementation, Telekom MMS added Business GPT to its portfolio.
Real innovation through AI
Christian Schmidt, Head of IT and Digital at UKA, commented, “Business GPT makes us absolute pioneers. With this tool, we enable our employees worldwide to test use cases for AI language models in a secure environment and use them profitably. That’s what I call real innovation.”
“Compliance and security – that’s what our customers expect from us. It’s in our DNA,” says Klaus Werner, Managing Director for Business Customers at Telekom Deutschland GmbH. “Business GPT combines Telekom’s reliability with the latest in natural language processing and all the innovation that comes with it.”