NVIDIA highlights how AI can drive change in the automotive, financial services and healthcare industries
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“We are leveraging the capabilities of AI to perform intuitive tasks on a scale that is quite hard to imagine. And no industry can afford or wants to miss out on the huge advantage that predictive analytics offers.” That’s the message from NVIDIA co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang that’s foregrounded in the first unit of the GPU giant’s AI for All online professional education class.
And based on the amount of money being poured into AI infrastructure, Huang is right. While it’s still early days, commercial AI solutions are today delivering tangible benefits largely based on automation of enterprise processes and workflows. NVIDIA calls out AI’s ability to enhance efficiency, decision making and organizational ability for innovation by pulling out actionable, valuable insights from vast datasets.
The company gives high-level examples of AI use cases for specific functions and verticals:
- In call centers, AI can power virtual agents, extract data insights and conduct sentiment analysis.
- For retail businesses, AI vision systems can analyze traffic trends, customer counts and aisle occupancy.
- Manufacturers can use AI for product design, production optimization, enhanced quality control and reducing waste.
Mercedes-Benz works with NVIDIA to streamline manufacturing and assembly processes
The marquee use case for AI in the automotive industry is self-driving vehicles that can autonomously navigate the world around them, enhancing public safety and road efficiency. But that’s just part of it; AI can bring enhancements to the automotive industry beginning with the design phase, running through the manufacturing process, and onto day-to-day operation of a vehicle in the real world.
Vehicle designers can use AI-powered systems for iterative design visualization, cutting the costly, time-consuming need for physical iteration. Engineering simulations can help skilled workers rapidly analyze vehicular systems and more effectively solve potential problems before they’re manifested in the manufacturing process. Even at the point of sale, automotive retailers can enhance customer experience by offering virtual showrooms and the ability to dynamically run through customizable configurations. And, of course, self-driving, automated parking, in-vehicle personal assistants and contextually aware infotainment systems round out the role AI has to play in the automotive industry.
Mercedes-Benz and NVIDIA have a long-standing and expansive partnership. A key piece is their work to build AI-powered digital twins which, among other benefits, help Mercedes-Benz engineers plan out manufacturing and assembly facilities. Using NVIDIA’s Omniverse suite, the auto OEM can “interact directly with its suppliers, reducing coordination processes by 50%. Using a digital twin in production doubles the speed for converting or constructing an assembly hall, while improving the quality of the processes. Read more here.
Deutsche Bank and American Express tap AI for a broad range of use cases
The financial services sector is also benefiting from a wide range of AI-based applications, including personalized branch banking, data visualization, fraud alert, automated investment advising, intelligent video analytics for ATM security and monitoring and threat detection, avatar assisted banking, digital twins used for training purposes, and virtual financial advice.
NVIDIA is working with Deutsche Bank to embed AI into its financial service offerings. One foundational step is development of an LLMs optimized for financial data, fin-formers. “These models are designed to quickly identify early warning signs related to the counterparty in a financial transaction, enhance data retrieval speed, and pinpoint issues related to data quality,” according to NVIDIA.
American Express is using NVIDIA’s AI technology and high-performance computing to detect anomalous patterns in transactions, detect real-time fraud, and otherwise protect its customers and merchants. Amex (I’ve been a happy customer since 2017) requires a two-millisecond latency window for real-time fraud detection.
Drug discovery typically takes $2 billion in R&D with a 90% failure rate
The process of drug discovery is expensive, long and laborious. NVIDIA reckons the $1.2 trillion industry spends around a decade and $2 billion in research and development costs per drug, and winds up with a 90% failure rate. With the power of AI, researchers can digitize biological inner workings to better identify drug targets, predict their efficacy and potential toxicity, optimize design, and model the interactions between drugs and biological systems. AI-accelerated computing lets researchers move through this process much more quickly and cost efficiency, leading to faster identification of candidate treatments.
The impact of AI on healthcare extends to medical devices where the combination of sensing, computation and AI-based prediction sets the stage for more continuous, proactive care. And, in the longer-term, NVIDIA sees healthcare professionals using robotic systems to augment critical care. But, in the here and now, NVIDIA highlighted the work of a company focused on analyzing tissue samples. Instead of the sample being taken then shipped off to a lab for analysis—a process that can take weeks, a domain-specific AI model can help physicians analyze tissue samples as they’re collected.
AI’s expanding impact across industries
AI is reshaping industries by enhancing efficiency, automating tasks, and unlocking insights from vast datasets. From cloud computing to data centers, workstations, and edge devices, it is driving digital transformation at every level. Across sectors like automotive, financial services, and healthcare, AI is enabling automation, predictive analytics, and more intelligent decision-making.
As AI evolves from traditional methods to machine learning, deep learning, and now generative AI, its capabilities continue to expand. Generative AI is particularly transformative, producing everything from text and images to music and video, demonstrating that AI is not only analytical but also creative. Underpinning these advancements is GPU acceleration, which has made deep learning breakthroughs possible and enabled real-time AI applications.
No longer just an experimental technology, AI is now a foundational tool shaping the way businesses operate and innovate. With its deep expertise in AI infrastructure, NVIDIA is at the forefront of this transformation, powering the shift toward a more intelligent and automated future.
