A network of engineering centers located in Europe, Asia, and North America will support Accenture’s new business group, which is based on the Accenture AI Refinery platform and partners with Nvidia to assist clients in accelerating their agentic AI journeys.
With Accenture’s new Nvidia business group dedicated to assisting clients in quickly scaling the adoption of AI, the two companies announced an expanded relationship on Wednesday.
According to Accenture, the new division will assist clients in laying the groundwork for the use of agentic AI by utilizing Accenture’s AI Refinery platform, which is based on the Nvidia AI stack and includes Nvidia AI Foundry, Nvidia AI Enterprise, and Nvidia Omniverse.
An operational, business-specific approach to utilizing general artificial intelligence (gen AI) in enterprise processes without human interaction is through agentic AI, or AI systems that can carry out activities and make decisions on their own within predetermined constraints.
Lan Guan, chief AI officer at Accenture, stated in a press conference on Tuesday, “Many of you probably have heard from our recently closed fiscal year earnings that generative AI demand drove $3 billion in Accenture bookings.” “Yet, a lot of our customers and corporate entities are yet to fully reap the rewards of artificial intelligence.”
As Guan pointed out, only 10% of businesses, according to Accenture, have fully implemented Gen AI. Among the typical challenges faced by businesses, she included cost, complexity, technological debt, data, and talent readiness. To assist clients in overcoming these obstacles and maximizing the potential of modern AI, Accenture has established a new business group dedicated to Nvidia.
“We think the next wave of agentic AI will be a game changer in how our clients reinvent their businesses, and it will be a huge step forward,” Guan stated. “In my opinion, zero-shot prompting—prompting the prebuilt huge language models and waiting for a response—is no longer sufficient. We may now create specialized abilities using agentic AI that can work freely and autonomously to further objectives or human intentions.
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Accenture said the new business group will be supported by more than 30,000 Nvidia-trained AI practitioners to help clients reimagine processes and grow corporate AI adoption. In addition, Accenture AI Foundry will interface with other Accenture business units and be accessible on all public and private cloud platforms.
Accenture will introduce a new Nvidia NIM Agent Blueprint for virtual facility robot fleet simulation as part of the initiative. The blueprint aims to facilitate the construction of autonomous, robot-operated software-defined factories and facilities by industrial businesses by integrating Nvidia Omniverse, Isaac, and Metropolis technologies. The company then intends to make use of the enhanced capabilities at Eclipse Automation, a manufacturing automation business owned by Accenture. According to Accenture, the blueprint will enable it to assist its clients in receiving designs up to 50% faster and cycle times up to 30% shorter.
Accenture’s marketing department is also combining autonomous agents with the AI Refinery platform to expedite the creation and execution of campaigns. According to the company, AI Refinery will help its marketing department save expenses by 6% and manual steps by up to 35% while also accelerating time-to-market by up to 55%.
Accenture also intends to open AI Refinery Engineering Hubs in London, Tokyo, Malaga, and Singapore. These hubs, which are a component of its Center for Advanced AI, will concentrate on the selection, optimization, and large-scale inferencing of foundation models and will have deep engineering expertise and technological capability for utilizing agent AI systems.
