Applies to SUSE AI Factory

1 How is SUSE AI Factory different from SUSE AI? #

SUSE AI is the complete, sovereign AI solution, while SUSE AI Factory is the component that builds and manages AI applications and blueprints on the platform. The relationship can be summarized as: Infrastructure Platform (like SUSE Rancher Prime) + Application Platform (SUSE AI Factory) = SUSE AI.

While they are part of the same ecosystem, they serve different functions:

Table 1.1: SUSE AI vs. SUSE AI Factory #

	SUSE AI	SUSE AI Factory
Core Focus	Infrastructure and security	AI application deployment and lifecycle management
Primary Goal	Provides a secure, vendor-agnostic foundation to run and govern AI workloads.	Standardizes and automates the deployment of AI applications using preconfigured templates.
Operational Role	Acts as the stable and manageable environment (the "factory floor").	Provides the tools to build, deploy, and manage AI workloads (the "assembly line").
NVIDIA Support	Does not directly enable or manage NVIDIA applications.