Accenture and NVIDIA expand partnership to scale agentic AI adoption

Professional services firm Accenture and chip manufacturer NVIDIA have expanded their partnership aiming to accelerate AI adoption among enterprises.

Central to the collaboration is the formation of Accenture’s new NVIDIA Business Group, which is dedicated to leveraging generative AI technology to help business innovation.

Accenture reported $3 billion in AI-driven bookings in its most recent fiscal year. The consultancy said it aims to help clients lay the foundation for agentic AI functionality using it’s ‘AI Refinery’.

Rather than simply responding to prompts, agentic AI can autonomously create workflows and take actions based on user intent.

The AI Refinery uses the full NVIDIA AI stack to advance areas such as process reinvention, AI-powered simulation and sovereign AI.

Accenture’s AI Refinery will be deployed on both public and private cloud infrastructures and will integrate with other Accenture Business Groups.

Julie Sweet, chair and CEO of Accenture said: “We are breaking significant new ground with our partnership with NVIDIA and enabling our clients to be at the forefront of using generative AI as a catalyst for reinvention.”

Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, added: “NVIDIA’s platform, Accenture’s AI Refinery, and our combined expertise will help businesses and nations accelerate this transformation to drive unprecedented productivity and growth.”

The partnership will also see over 30,000 professionals trained globally to help clients adopt agentic AI systems.

One implementation includes a collaboration with telco Indosat Group to launch Indonesia’s first sovereign AI, which aims to bolster data governance and regulatory compliance for local enterprises, starting within the financial sector.

Additionally, Accenture will introduce a new NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprint (reference AI workflows tailored for specific use cases) for virtual facility robot fleet simulations.

It will incorporate NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac, and Metropolis software to enhance factory automation. This will be piloted by Eclipse Automation, an Accenture-owned manufacturing automation company, which it says will reduce design times by 50% and a 30% reduction in cycle time on behalf of its clients.

Accenture is also expanding its AI Engineering Hubs. New hubs in Singapore, Tokyo, Malaga, and London will join existing ones in Mountain View, California, and Bangalore, underscoring a global commitment to scaling AI technologies.