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Recently, Accenture and NVIDIA announced that they would be expanding their partnership to help organizations around the globe rapidly scale their AI adoption.
New AI Refinery platform coming soon
The two tech leaders will be launching the new AI Refinery platform, which will be built on NVIDIA’s NIMS and Nemo frameworks, aiming to address challenges like cost, complexity, and talent readiness while enabling AI agents to work autonomously. In addition, the partnership will see the introduction of the Accenture NVIDIA Business Group, which includes 30,000 professionals to help clients reinvent processes and scale enterprise AI adoption with AI agents.
The new Accenture NVIDIA Business Group will assist clients in laying the foundation for agentic AI functionality using Accenture’s AI Refinery, and focus on three key areas: AI-powered enterprise reinvention, AI-powered simulation reinvention, and sovereign AI.
While financial details were not disclosed, the investment in AI expertise is expected to be significant, with a bullish outlook on the partnership’s potential return on investment.
“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,” Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said. “Accenture AI Refinery will create opportunities for companies to reimagine their processes and operations, discover new ways of working, and scale AI solutions across the enterprise to help drive continuous change and create value.”
The Accenture AI Refinery will be available on all public and private cloud platforms. It will integrate seamlessly with other Accenture Business Groups to accelerate AI across the SaaS and Cloud AI ecosystem.
“I’m super excited about this partnership in front of us,” Chief AI Officer at Accenture Lan Guan said. “We are living the future we’ve been envisioning, starting with our own company. Now, we’re already helping our clients do the same with our AI Refinery, leveraging NVIDIA’s full stack technology. It’s truly an exciting time to reinvent business.”
Scaling Agentic AI for enterprises
This new Accenture NVIDIA Business Group will accelerate momentum with GenAI, helping clients scale agentic AI systems in an effort to drive new levels of productivity and growth. This “next frontier of GenAI” represents a leap forward for GenAI. These systems will be able to act on the intent of the user, create new workflows, and take appropriate actions based on their environment that can reinvent entire processes or functions.
“We believe the next wave of agentic AI will be a huge step forward and a game changer in how our clients reinvent their business,” Guan said. “It’s no longer just about prompting the pre-built large language models and waiting for a response. Now, with agentic AI, we can actually develop specialized capabilities that can independently and autonomously interact or act to make progress.”
Accenture and NVIDIA have already made strides in assisting organizations with adopting and scaling agentic AI, including helping Indosat Group launch the first sovereign AI in Indonesia that enables businesses to securely deploy AI while ensuring data governance and adhering to regulations. The new solution, powered by the AI Refinery platform, will help Indonesian banks harness AI to drive profitability, operational efficiency, and sustainable growth.
Additionally, Accenture’s marketing function is integrating the AI Refinery platform with autonomous agents to help create and run smarter campaigns faster. This integration will result in a 25-35 percent reduction in manual steps, six percent savings in, and is expected to achieve a 25-55 percent increase in speed to market.
“The AI Refinery platform is built on the best of NVIDIA’s accelerated computing. It harnesses the performance optimized models of NIMS and it uses Nemo for fine tuning and evaluation,” said Justin Boitano, Vice President, Enterprise AI Software, NVIDIA. “The experts at Accenture really are the powerhouse that then scale this globally to world’s enterprises.”
AI Engineering Hubs
Accenture is also introducing a network of hubs with deep engineering skills and the technical capacity for using agentic AI systems to transform large-scale operations. This network of AI engineering hubs will be part of its Center for Advanced AI and focus on the selection, fine-tuning, and large-scale inference of foundation models, which all pose significant accuracy, cost, latency, and compliance challenges when development is scaled.
These hubs will serve 57,000 Accenture AI practitioners in Europe, Asia, and North America and support agentic architecture and foundation model development with NVIDIA AI.
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