Tech brothers open ‘Try before you buy’ AI lab for companies to test ‘bleeding edge’ Nvidia systems

AI technology is sweeping the world – and now two Stockport brothers who run a leading IT company have invested in a “try before you buy” lab for businesses to test the latest tech from global giant Nvidia.

Vesper Technologies, known as Vespertec, has opened the onsite AI lab environment at its Heaton Mersey base. The business was founded by Allan and Phil Kaye and today works closely with global tech giant Nvidia – and just this year won Nvidia’s Rising Star Northern Europe award for its work as a key partner of the business.

Nvidia has become a vital link in the growing AI industry worldwide. The company’s graphics processing units (GPUs) were created for the gaming market and are now used to train the technology behind AI models such as Open AI.

Vespertec says its lab is the first in Europe to offer the latest NVIDIA Grace Hopper superchips, as well as other new Nvidia tech. The Kaye brothers say they have already deployed some 100 Grace Hopper systems and say their new “bleeding edge” setup will allow other customers to test their applications on it and see if it works for them.

Allan said: “We've brought this environment into the business to support the adoption of AI essentially and to help customers in a number of ways.

“On the pre-sales side it's really a ‘try before you buy’ environment. AI is obviously a big topic at the minute. But what goes with that is that there's a lot of uncertainty around how to deliver it, and how to use it within enterprises. It's also fairly expensive, and so it's a little bit prohibitive to experiment with on your own.

“So one of the main reasons we put this facility together is so that people interested in using AI, either for the first time or perhaps to transition from some existing infrastructure, have the ability to come along and test their workload on this new iteration of infrastructure from Nvidia .

“It's an Nvidia based environment at its heart… and they tend to be first in everybody's mind when they