A recent press release reports, “SAS today announced it is partnering with NVIDIA to help businesses bring artificial intelligence (AI) into their organizations. The companies are collaborating across machine learning, computer vision and natural language processing, with NVIDIA GPUs and CUDA-X AI acceleration libraries, to support the core elements of SAS’ AI offerings – leading to faster, more accurate insights. ‘AI is transforming business across industries,’ said Gavin Day, SAS Senior Vice President of Technology. ‘At the heart of AI-based transformation is advanced analytics. Powerful GPUs help speed the analysis and impact of AI by processing millions of mathematical operations very quickly. By partnering with NVIDIA, we combine our strengths to augment human intelligence and realize the true potential of AI’.”

The release goes on, “For industries such as health care, life sciences, manufacturing and financial services, artificial intelligence delivers significant value. Here are some examples of how SAS and NVIDIA are helping customers accelerate their AI efforts: (1) Health care providers using object recognition to identify malignant versus benign cancer cells. (2) Manufacturers using computer vision to find defects before products leave production lines. (3) Financial institutions saving trillions of dollars with fraud detection. ‘Our collaboration with SAS will help enterprise customers extract the true value of AI for their company,’ said Ian Buck, Vice President and General Manager of Accelerated Computing at NVIDIA. ‘With NVIDIA technology, businesses will be able to accelerate their entire data science workflow to innovate, add new services and increase profitability’.”

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