Tik Tok and OpenAI confident of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure capabilities

TikTok and OpenAI are among the OCI customers that have experienced continued growth and success in their journey with Oracle.

Oracle is expected to increase its expected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) revenues going into the 2030 fiscal year. The vendor remains focused on hardware flexibility as it looks to support its growing OCI customers.

In his keynote address at Oracle AI World, Clay Magouyrk, CEO of Oracle highlighted how the cloud infrastructure is constructed of many layers, requiring a lot of skill to build an architecture that's resilient to the constant change required.

Over the years, the cloud infrastructure has evolved, making way for more innovation to cater to the growing needs of customers. Two of Oracle’s biggest customers that have leveraged OCI to support their growth and operations are TikTok and OpenAI.

For Magouyrk, OCI’s capability of providing an architecture that sees into the future and anticipates unknown improvements, both across both hardware and software, is what customers like TikTok and OpenAI need.

“We built OCI as an extensible platform, making it easy to extend with new services. By doing that, we enable ourselves to create Oracle Alloy which combines OCI Fusion Applications and other custom IP and the combination of that enables others to become cloud providers themselves. Now it's kind of a whirlwind tour of some of the key choices we made along the way, but it's just a subset of many of the important decisions that we've made,” said Magouryk in his keynote.

He added that Oracle remains constantly focused on living up to its commitment to be the highest performance, lowest cost and most secure infrastructure possible, and they are getting closer to that ideal every single day.

TikTok and OpenAI

Testament to this is the success both TikTok and OpenAI have experienced in their journey with Oracle.

According to Fangfei Chen, Head of Infrastructure Engineering at ByteDance (TikTok), who was a surprise guest at Oracle AI World, the way TikTok integrates with OCI is deeply at the network layer as the social media app needs hundreds of targets per second of interconnection traffic. The TikTok platform has over 1 billion users globally and within the US alone, there is over 170 million users who generate approximately 20 million videos every day.

“Since 2021 when we first deployed, we really have seen a 60% increase in our monthly active users. And if you add the complexity of new features to the platform, our infrastructure needs to scale even beyond that. So that's really at the core of the problem we need to solve,” said Chen.

Chen pointed out that TikTok is also supporting 7.5 million small businesses on the platform. This is where he highlighted how TikTok Shop relies on OCI, especially when it comes to live streams and shopping events on the app.

“The way we work with Oracle here is we plan in terms of demand and supply, just like how you would plan for your supply chain, and we do that in lockstep. The challenges comes in when a plan sometimes has to change, and very often at short notice. And thanks for the flexibility the OCI team has provided to us so we can accommodate those changes, and at the end of the day, we're making sure we have enough capacity at exactly the time we need it,” added Chen.

For Peter Hoeschele, OpenAI VP for Strategy & Infrastructure, Oracle has kind of become OpenAI’s one stop shop for any country that’s going in with Project Stargate.

“There is always a question of, can we go surf here? Can we run capacity here? What are the requirements that both the government and our own security teams are going to have? And it's been really interesting working with Oracle because you understand our internal security standards and policy requirements. Just please go make this work, and we've seen this now across many different countries, in a very rapidly evolving environment. It's a huge win for me that I don't have to think about that and I can rely on you (Oracle) as we can expand 10x year over year,” said Hoeschele.

OCI Dedicated Region25

Oracle also unveiled the availability of OCI Dedicated Region²⁵ , which enables organizations to rapidly deploy full-stack OCI in a Dedicated Region within weeks, starting as small as three racks in a space-constrained environment.

part of Oracle’s distributed cloud portfolio, the new dedicated region enables public and private organizations to increase agility and accelerate time-to-market by leveraging a sovereign, enterprise-grade cloud with modular infrastructure and streamlined service design.