TOKYO - Hitachi (OTC:HTHIY), Ltd. (TSE:6501) has entered into a collaboration with NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) to enhance social innovation and digital transformation by integrating its operational technology (OT) solutions and industry leadership with NVIDIA's generative AI expertise. The partnership aims to introduce AI into the industrial domain, leveraging the vast data from OT sensors, devices, and industrial machines to improve performance and automation.
The collaboration will see the formation of an executive leadership team and the establishment of an AI Center of Excellence (CoE). Hitachi plans to develop and market industry solutions that fuse its OT domain knowledge with NVIDIA's AI software and GPU technologies. Hitachi is also set to expand engineer training on NVIDIA's software platforms, including CUDA™, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Omniverse™, and Modulus, among other collaborative measures.
Generative AI has already shown its potential in automating tasks, creating efficiencies, and enhancing products and services across various industries. NVIDIA's computing platform supports large-scale language models and creative generation, contributing to innovation in fields ranging from energy to manufacturing.
Hitachi, with around 320,000 employees globally, is a leader in IT, OT, and physical world products, offering advanced solutions in energy, mobility, and industrial sectors. In May 2023, Hitachi launched its Generative AI Center to promote the safe and effective use of AI. The company has executed over 100 projects worldwide using generative AI for enhanced problem-solving and innovation. Furthermore, Hitachi will create an environment powered by NVIDIA-accelerated computing and develop a common platform for generative AI, incorporating its software development expertise.
Toshiaki Tokunaga, Executive Vice President and Executive Officer, General Manager of Digital Systems & Services Division at Hitachi, expressed the company's commitment to solving societal issues through superior technologies. He anticipates that the collaboration with NVIDIA will lead to solving complex real-world problems and accelerating social innovation.
Jay Puri, executive vice president of Worldwide Field Operations at NVIDIA, highlighted generative AI's role in driving productivity, efficiency, and automation in enterprises. He noted that the combined technologies of Hitachi and NVIDIA could power the next wave of digital transformation.
The collaboration includes developing next-generation industrial simulation and optimization projects, integrating Hitachi's Lumada AI solutions with NVIDIA AI Enterprise and Modulus platforms, and creating a new portfolio of AI solutions under the Hitachi iQ brand. These solutions will be certified on NVIDIA DGX BasePOD, built on NVIDIA DGX infrastructure, and will include high-end offerings powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs and midrange PCIe-based offerings with NVIDIA L40S GPUs.
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