Indian IT company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has partnered with NVIDIA to launch a specialised business unit focused on expediting artificial intelligence (AI) adoption for manufacturing, BFSI, telecom, retail, and automotive industries.

This initiative builds on a five-year collaboration between TCS and NVIDIA, with the new unit positioned under TCS’ AI.Cloud business.

The new business unit will offer industry-specific solutions and offerings by leveraging global centres of excellence, investments in the NVIDIA AI platform, and skilled resources.

This collaboration aims to deliver curated AI adoption strategies that combine TCS' deep domain expertise with NVIDIA's advanced AI technology.

The unit will also utilise TCS' framework, which integrates enterprise contextual knowledge, and NVIDIA AI technology to build and deploy agentic AI solutions.

These include NVIDIA NIM microservices and NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform, and NVIDIA AI Foundry, to offer scalable value to customers.

NVIDIA Enterprise Software vice-president John Fanelli said: “Factories, warehouses and robotics are the next grounds for physical AI innovation at scale. Combining cutting edge AI and simulation capabilities can unlock unprecedented potential for intelligent manufacturing operations for TCS clients.”

TCS and NVIDIA have worked together to create solutions for various industry verticals on the NVIDIA AI platform. These offerings include TCS Manufacturing AI for Industrials, TCS AI Spectrum for BFSI, TCS Cognitive Visual Receiving, TCS AI-Native Telco Offerings, and TCS AI-based Autonomous Vehicle Platform.

In addition to the AI offerings, TCS is also developing a suite of digital twin solutions on the NVIDIA Omniverse development platform.

These solutions will enable clients to design, simulate, operate, and optimise products and production facilities, particularly in heavy industries, as they embrace the next wave of digital manufacturing.

TCS Manufacturing president Anupam Singhal said: “Manufacturers can now achieve unprecedented accuracy and access the tacit knowledge to optimize their operations, improve decision-making, and drive impactful innovation.

“This is possible with TCS' Manufacturing AI for Industrials offering, which leverages NVIDIA technology to harness the power of LLMs (large language models) and is fine-tuned with TCS' deep manufacturing industry expertise.”

In June 2024, TCS signed a deal to overhaul Xerox’s IT infrastructure through cloud computing and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technologies.