SEB has joined a Swedish consortium developing an AI manufacturing facility with Nvidia.
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The consortium includes SEB, AstraZeneca, Ericsson, Saab, and Wallenberg Investments, who together will certainly build on an AI supercomputer run by a joint Swedish business.
Marcus Wallenberg, chair of Wallenberg Investments and SEB, states: “Investing in advanced AI framework is an important step toward increasing the growth and fostering of AI throughout Swedish sector. We believe this effort will certainly produce valuable spillover results – by making it possible for upskilling, fostering new collaborations, and strengthening the broader national AI environment.”
The intention is that the first phase of the deployment will certainly utilize Nvidia’s most recent generation extremely scalable technology, making it the largest enterprise AI supercomputer in Sweden when operational. It will be made use of to run compute-heavy AI work, accelerating processes such as training domain-specific AI versions and large-scale inference, including thinking AI.
The effort intends to establish a future generation AI compute facilities that is both a manufacturing center and a referral setup, unlocking brand-new opportunities for AI fostering.
Jonas Ahlström, chief operating officer & & deputy head of state & & CEO at SEB, states: “We will certainly increase AI deployment across SEB to allow strategic leaps in our service to customers and to drive innovation in efficiency and rate of shipment.
“Having accessibility to cutting-edge AI sources and calculate power in Sweden and belonging to the style of this facilities is an essential component in preparing the financial institution for the future. Our co-operation with exterior partners, consisting of public cloud service providers, continues and we check out an ecological community strategy as type in attaining our AI passions.”
