Accenture and NVIDIA announced the expansion of their partnership, unveiling a new business group aimed at accelerating enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence (AI). This new initiative, the Accenture-NVIDIA Business Group, is poised to assist organizations in rapidly scaling their AI capabilities.
With approximately 30,000 professionals already receiving training worldwide, this group is designed to help clients reimagine business processes and integrate AI solutions at scale, particularly focusing on agentic AI systems. “The new Accenture NVIDIA Business Group will accelerate momentum with Generative AI (Gen AI) and help clients scale agentic AI systems—the next frontier of Gen AI—to drive new levels of productivity and growth,” according to the company’s press release.
Unlike traditional AI solutions, agentic AI systems can interpret user intent, create new workflows, and transform entire processes, rather than simply automating pre-existing business steps or responding to prompts.
Accenture and NVIDIA have previously collaborated on supporting clients with the adoption and scaling of agentic AI systems. The newly formed group aims to build on this, offering enhanced support through Accenture’s AI Refinery, which leverages the full NVIDIA AI stack. This will empower enterprises to advance in key areas such as process reinvention, AI-driven simulations, and sovereign AI.
Accenture’s generative AI bookings have shown steady growth, reaching $1 billion in the fourth quarter and $3 billion for the fiscal year. “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,” said Julie Sweet, Chair and CEO of Accenture.
NVIDIA’s CEO, Jensen Huang, added that the partnership will help businesses and nations accelerate transformations, unlocking unprecedented levels of productivity and growth through the combined expertise of Accenture’s AI Refinery and NVIDIA’s advanced technology.
In its extended partnership, Accenture is also venturing into the engineering and research & development (ER&D) space, unveiling an agent blueprint for virtual facility robot fleet simulation. This will enable industrial companies to build autonomous, robot-managed factories and facilities, powered by software-defined operations.
Accenture plans to apply these capabilities at its Eclipse Automation subsidiary, which specializes in manufacturing automation. The company expects this to deliver up to 50 percent faster designs and a 30 percent reduction in cycle time for clients. Additionally, Accenture is establishing a network of hubs with deep engineering expertise, focused on addressing the challenges of scaling agentic AI systems, such as fine-tuning foundational models while managing accuracy, cost, latency, and compliance.
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