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At Oracle AI World 2025, Larry Ellison said AI will augment people, reshape industries, and help solve complex problems in science, healthcare, and the environment.
What happens in Vegas does not always stay in Vegas. At Oracle AI World 2025, Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison outlined how the company is reshaping its cloud and enterprise software strategy to meet the demands of the artificial intelligence era. The keynote combined two themes—the buildout of massive AI infrastructure on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and the deployment of AI across complex sectors such as healthcare—to show how Oracle plans to move from model-building to real-world problem-solving.
Ellison described AI as a network of “electronic brains” designed to augment human capability rather than replace it. He said the company’s focus has shifted from helping others train large models to enabling them to apply those models securely to their own data and operations. “The real opportunity is not just building these extraordinary electronic brains, but using them to solve humanity’s most difficult problems,” he said.
At the centre of Oracle’s offering is a privacy-preserving framework that lets enterprises use AI models on their most valuable data without compromising control or security. The Oracle AI Database and AI Data Platform can “vectorise” data from Oracle and third-party cloud stores, making it usable for AI models via retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). OCI will host a range of foundation models—including Grok,...