DBT Bureau
Pune, 26 Oct 2024
Infosys, a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, has launched its small language models – Infosys Topaz BankingSLM and Infosys Topaz ITOpsSLM – developed using the powerful NVIDIA AI Stack. This collaboration leverages NVIDIA AI and Infosys Topaz offerings to create a robust foundation for implementing and scaling enterprise AI. The models are part of the Infosys center of excellence dedicated to NVIDIA technologies, designed to help businesses quickly adopt and scale AI.
The small language models utilize general and industry-specific data, enhanced by NVIDIA’s AI Enterprise and NVIDIA AI Foundry in collaboration with Sarvam AI. The models are fine-tuned with Infosys data and integrated into existing offerings, like Infosys Finacle and Infosys Topaz for business and IT operations, creating robust foundational models for industry-specific applications. Infosys also provides these models as services that include pretraining-as-a-service and fine-tuning-as-a-service, to help businesses build their own custom AI models securely, in compliance with industry standards.
As part of the center of excellence, Infosys is working with NVIDIA on NIM™ Agent Blueprints to streamline AI application development and integrate innovations such as the new Digital Human blueprint for customer service, multimodal PDF data extraction and various other use cases for Infosys Topaz offerings. Beyond these, the collaboration extends to digitalization efforts, addressing areas like 3D workflows and digital twins with NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise, and Infosys Responsible AI suite, using NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails. The center of excellence also unveiled an exclusive AI Experience Zone, featuring the latest capabilities from NVIDIA AI and Infosys Topaz. The zone is designed to foster co-innovation in AI solutions, such as agentic and physical AI use cases, across sectors such as telecommunications, retail, and financial services.
Balakrishna D. R. , Executive Vice President, Global Services Head, AI and Industry Verticals, Infosys, said, “As we further our enterprise AI journey with NVIDIA, our focus is now on delivering foundational small language models as services for businesses to build on. By integrating the NVIDIA AI stack with Infosys Topaz, we are taking advantage of very advanced enterprise AI capabilities to tackle unique business challenges, enhance operational efficiency, and deliver bespoke solutions that drive business value for our clients. Our dedicated center of excellence ensures continuous innovation and establishes Infosys as a preferred partner for our clients’ AI-powered transformation.”
Jay Puri, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations, NVIDIA, said, “Generative AI and the recent advancements in agentic and physical AI are ushering in a new era of innovation and productivity for enterprises worldwide. NVIDIA’s full-stack AI platform combined with Infosys Topaz empowers businesses to build and deploy custom AI applications that will transform industries, helping businesses unlock their full potential.”
