There were a few weeks recently during which it seemed like Nvidia was not so invincible. Word of an anti-trust probe was spreading, and the effects of a Blackwell chip delay and questions about China sanctions were being pondered. All it took for Nvidia to rebound from these concerns was CEO Jensen Huang resorting to superlatives, describing Blackwell demand as “insane” in an interview with CNBC.
As Nvidia’s AI Summit began this week in Washington, D.C., all seemed well and in full hype mode once again. As attention in the AI world recently has turned from generative AI to agentic AI, the company announced partnerships with several organizations to boost the development of agentic AI applications throughout the enterprise market.
Some of these organizations, including consulting firms Accenture, Deloitte, Quantiphi, and SoftServe, will be working with a new reference workflows offering–Nvidia NIM Agent Blueprints–that in combination with Nvidia NeMo and NIM microservices will help them work with their clients in healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, financial services, and retail create custom generative AI agents and copilots.
For example, Deloitte is using NIM Agent Blueprints as part of a cybersecurity service platform, creating an agentic AI application to perform analysis of open source software threats and vulnerabilities.
Speaking during the AI Summit, Bob Pette, Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Platforms at Nvidia, described NIM Agent Blueprints as part of a “flywheel” approach to AI. “The flywheel is the way you're going to keep your AI agents and your AI models up to date,” he said. “You feed the flywheel with your data. It’s the way to connect your data to your AI agents.”
He made clear that NIM Agent Blueprints grew out of interest among customers who already were using NIM microservices. Some of them wanted more help getting started creating AI agents. “We are not building applications for them, but we are giving them the tools, trying to get people to the starting point at which they can build out their AI agents,” he said.
Pette said ServiceNow, one of the first companies to adopt NeMo and NIM microservices, also is planning to adopt NIM Agent Blueprints to power generative AI use cases for several U.S. government agencies.
NIM Agent Blueprints also have been created to address the needs of specific industries, such as a Blueprint for generative virtual screening for drug discovery that can be used in the healthcare sector to build an AI agent for that purpose. NIM Agent Blueprints are available now through Nvidia, and accessible through a wide variety of cloud service providers, global system integrators, and other technology partners.
Among other partnerships, Nvidia also said that AT&T, Lowe’s, and the University of Florida are using its microservices to create their own data-driven AI flywheels to power custom generative AI applications. In addition, Cadence, Cloudera, DataStax, Google Cloud, NetApp, SAP, ServiceNow, and Teradata are advancing their data and AI platforms with Nvidia NIM, the company said.
Discussing some of the other partnerships in more detail, Nvidia said Accenture is helping clients build domain-specific AI agents using NeMo and NIM microservices through its AI Refinery and the Accenture Nvidia Business Group, which the consulting giant just announced last week. Meanwhile, SoftServe has a generative AI Industrial Assistant that uses NeMo and NIM microservices to improve safety and efficiency in industrial manufacturing by making equipment manuals more accessible and providing factory workers real-time guidance on troubleshooting and maintenance.
Among others, AT&T is working with Quantiphi and using Nvidia NIM microservices to build a conversational platform that can assist employees with software development, network engineering, and financial services tasks. The University of Florida has adopted Nvidia NIM and NeMo to advance its learning management system, based on retrieval-augmented generation, that helps teaching assistants improve student success and retention. Finally, Lowe’s is exploring the use of Nvidia NIM and NeMo microservices to improve experiences for associates and customers and enhance productivity of their store associates.