- Expanded collaboration to provide expertise and technology
needed to drive productivity gains with generative AI applications
and solutions across industries
- New Centre of Excellence will train 50,000 Infosys employees
on NVIDIA AI technology
BENGALURU, India and SANTA CLARA, Calif. ,
Sept. 20,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Infosys (NSE: INFY),
(BSE: INFY), (NYSE: INFY), a global leader in next-generation
digital services and consulting, and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA)
today announced that they have expanded their strategic
collaboration with the aim to help enterprises worldwide, drive
productivity gains with generative AI applications and
solutions.
The broadened alliance will bring the NVIDIA AI Enterprise
ecosystem of models, tools, runtimes and GPU systems to Infosys
Topaz – an AI-first set of services, solutions and platforms
that accelerate business value using generative AI technologies.
Through the integration, Infosys will create offerings customers
can adopt, to easily integrate generative AI into their
businesses.
Additionally, Infosys plans to set up an NVIDIA Centre of
Excellence, where it will train and certify 50,000 of its employees
on NVIDIA AI technology to provide generative AI expertise to its
vast network of customers across industries.
"Infosys is transforming into an AI-first company to better
provide AI-based services to our clients worldwide. Our clients are
also looking at complex AI use cases that can drive significant
business value across their entire value chain," said
Nandan Nilekani, Co-founder and
Chairman, Infosys. "Infosys Topaz offerings and solutions are
complementary to NVIDIA's core stack. By combining our strengths
and training 50,000 of our workforce on NVIDIA AI technology, we
are creating end-to-end industry leading AI solutions that will
help enterprises on their journey to become AI-first."
"Generative AI will drive the next wave of enterprise
productivity gains," said Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO,
NVIDIA. "The NVIDIA AI Enterprise ecosystem is ramping quickly
to provide the platform for generative AI. Together, NVIDIA and
Infosys will create an expert workforce to help businesses use this
platform to build custom applications and solutions."
Full-Stack NVIDIA Integration Powers Advanced Infosys
Solutions
Infosys uses the full-stack NVIDIA generative AI platform,
including hardware and enterprise-grade software to innovate across
its business operations, and it is helping customers create
generative AI applications for business operations, sales and
marketing.
With NVIDIA AI Enterprise frameworks, pretrained models and
toolkits — including the NVIDIA NeMo™ LLM framework, NVIDIA
Metropolis for computer vision and NVIDIA Riva for speech AI —
Infosys has already developed multiple AI-first enterprise
offerings across industries. These include:
- Integrating the Infosys Video Analytics platform with NVIDIA
Metropolis, which brings the power of computer vision to address
retail industry challenges, including creating frictionless
shopping experiences, improving merchandising and planogram
compliance, reducing shrinkage, monitoring inventory, extracting
real-time intelligence, checking compliances for health, safety and
more, as well as for logistics, manufacturing and utilities.
- Pairing Infosys Generative AI Labs with the NVIDIA NeMo
framework, which enables organizations to fine-tune and fast-track
deployments of large language models tailored for a wide range of
enterprise use cases, providing a cost-effective and easily
scalable platform. Using NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails, Infosys is
augmenting its Responsible AI Toolkit to build powerful intelligent
practices to safeguard against the potential risks of generative
AI, such as IP infringement, bias and toxicity, hallucinations and
security threats.
- Using Infosys Cortex with NVIDIA Riva speech and translation
AI, Infosys is developing AI-driven next-generation contact center
solutions. These include language neutralization features for
seamless multilingual support as well as equipping contact center
representatives with real-time customer intent and sentiment
analysis tools to enhance customer satisfaction and foster brand
loyalty.
The collaboration extends to digitalization applications,
with a focus on developing solutions for enterprise use cases
across 3D workflows, design collaboration, digital twin, world
simulation and others.
Infosys and NVIDIA are also co-developing AI-powered
solutions in areas like 5G, cybersecurity and energy
transition.
About NVIDIA
Since its founding in 1993, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a
pioneer in accelerated computing. The company's invention of the
GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined
computer graphics, ignited the era of modern AI and is fueling
industrial digitalization across markets. NVIDIA is now a
full-stack computing company with data-center-scale offerings that
are reshaping industry. More information at
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
NVIDIA Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release including, but not
limited to, statements as to: NVIDIA's collaboration with Infosys,
including the benefits and impact thereof; generative AI driving
the next wave of enterprise productivity gains; the NVIDIA AI
Enterprise ecosystem ramping quickly to provide the platform for
generative AI; NVIDIA and Infosys creating an expert workforce to
help businesses use this platform to build custom applications and
solutions; and the benefits, impact, and availability of our
products, services, and technologies, including NVIDIA AI
Enterprise, NVIDIA NeMo, NVIDIA Metropolis, and NVIDIA Riva are
forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and
uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different
than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially include: global economic conditions;
our reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and
test our products; the impact of technological development and
competition; development of new products and technologies or
enhancements to our existing product and technologies; market
acceptance of our products or our partners' products; design,
manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences
or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces;
unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when
integrated into systems; as well as other factors detailed from
time to time in the most recent reports NVIDIA files with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including, but not
limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on
Form 10-Q. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the
company's website and are available from NVIDIA without charge.
These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future
performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as
required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these
forward-looking statements to reflect future events or
circumstances.
About Infosys
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services
and consulting. Over 300,000 of our people work to amplify human
potential and create the next opportunity for people, businesses
and communities. We enable clients in more than 56 countries to
navigate their digital transformation. With over four decades of
experience in managing the systems and workings of global
enterprises, we expertly steer clients, as they navigate their
digital transformation powered by cloud and AI. We enable them with
an AI-first core, empower the business with agile digital at scale
and drive continuous improvement with always-on learning through
the transfer of digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our
innovation ecosystem. We are deeply committed to being a
well-governed, environmentally sustainable organization where
diverse talent thrives in an inclusive workplace.
Visit www.infosys.com to see how Infosys (NSE, BSE, NYSE: INFY)
can help your enterprise navigate your next.
Safe Harbor
Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth
prospects, or our future financial or operating performance are
forward-looking statements intended to qualify for the 'safe
harbor' under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995,
which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause
actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those in such
forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to
these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and
uncertainties regarding the execution of our business strategy, our
ability to attract and retain personnel, our transition to hybrid
work model, economic uncertainties, technological innovations such
as Generative AI, the complex and evolving regulatory landscape
including immigration regulation changes, our ESG vision, our
capital allocation policy and expectations concerning our market
position, future operations, margins, profitability, liquidity,
capital resources, and our corporate actions including
acquisitions. Important factors that may cause actual results or
outcomes to differ from those implied by the forward-looking
statements are discussed in more detail in our US Securities and
Exchange Commission filings including our Annual Report on Form
20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31,
2023. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. Infosys
may, from time to time, make additional written and oral
forward-looking statements, including statements contained in the
Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and
our reports to shareholders. The Company does not undertake to
update any forward-looking statements that may be made from time to
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