Cognizant has announced a strategic collaboration with NVIDIA to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) adoption across industries. This partnership aims to enhance AI-driven capabilities in five key areas: enterprise AI agents, industry-specific large language models (LLMs), digital twins for smart manufacturing, AI infrastructure, and Cognizant’s Neuro AI platform integration with NVIDIA AI technology.
Cognizant is working closely with global clients to help scale AI value efficiently by leveraging its extensive industry expertise and comprehensive AI ecosystem, which includes infrastructure, data, models, and agent development powered by proprietary platforms and accelerators. NVIDIA AI plays a crucial role in Cognizant’s AI offerings, with active client engagements across multiple industries to enable growth and business transformation.
Enterprise AI Agentification with Cognizant Neuro AI
Powered by NVIDIA NIM microservices, Cognizant’s Neuro AI Multi-Agent Accelerator will enable enterprises to rapidly build and scale AI-driven multi-agent systems. This framework supports adaptive operations, real-time decision-making, and personalized customer experiences. Organizations can use a low-code framework to create and orchestrate agents or leverage pre-built agent networks for business functions such as sales, marketing, and supply chain management. It also allows seamless integration of third-party agent networks and LLMs.
“We continue to see businesses navigating the transition from proofs of concept to larger-scale implementations of enterprise AI,” said Annadurai Elango, President, Core Technologies and Insights, Cognizant. “Through our collaboration with NVIDIA, Cognizant will be building and deploying solutions that accelerate this process and scale AI value faster for clients through integration of foundational AI elements, platforms, and solutions.”
Enhancing Multi-Agent AI Systems
Cognizant’s AI solutions will integrate NVIDIA NIM, NVIDIA Blueprints, and NVIDIA Riva speech AI to develop scalable, modular, and adaptable multi-agent architectures. This approach ensures long-term viability and adaptability while maintaining security guardrails and human oversight. Pre-built AI-driven solutions include:
- Insurance claims underwriting multi-agent systems
- Appeals and grievances multi-agent systems
- Automated supply chain multi-agent systems
- Contract management multi-agent systems
“From models to applications, enterprise AI transformation requires full-stack software and infrastructure with access to domain-specific data,” said Jay Puri, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations, NVIDIA. “The Cognizant Neuro AI platform is built with NVIDIA AI to deliver specialized LLMs and applications to ready businesses for the era of AI with reasoning agents and digital twins.”
Industry-Specific Large Language Models
Cognizant is developing industry-specific LLMs powered by NVIDIA NeMo and NIM, designed to meet the unique needs of various industries. One such innovation is a fine-tuned language model for healthcare, aimed at improving administrative processes, cutting costs, and enhancing revenue cycle management.
This AI-powered healthcare model improves accuracy in medical code extraction, reduces errors, and ensures compliance with HIPAA and GDPR standards. Internal benchmarking has shown significant performance enhancements:
- Effort reduction by 30-75%
- Increased coding accuracy by 30-40%
- Accelerated time to market by 40-45%
Industrial Digital Twins for Smart Manufacturing
Cognizant’s smart manufacturing and digital twin solutions, accelerated by NVIDIA Omniverse, aim to transform industrial operations. These solutions utilize synthetic data generation, accelerated computing, and physical AI simulation technologies to optimize plant layouts, improve predictive analytics, and enhance real-time decision-making.
By integrating diverse data from applications, systems, and sensors, Cognizant enables businesses to simulate different operational scenarios, addressing issues in factory settings and optimizing capital expenditures. Its digital twin solutions extend beyond factories, supporting large-scale infrastructures such as smart grids, warehouses, and even entire cities.
Building Robust AI Infrastructure
Effective AI implementation requires a solid foundation. Cognizant’s AI infrastructure, powered by NVIDIA, offers enterprises access to secure and scalable GPU-as-a-Service solutions. This ensures seamless deployment of AI models across cloud, data centers, and edge computing environments. Additionally, Cognizant utilizes NVIDIA RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark to optimize data pipelines, delivering:
- 2.7x cost efficiency improvement
- 1.8x performance enhancement for Spark workloads
The Future of AI Industrialization
“As we enter the era of AI industrialization, enterprises are seeking to accelerate the value velocity of their AI investments—focusing on outsized economic impact, agentic-led workflow, and industry-specific deployments,” said Nitish Mittal, Partner, Everest Group. “Cognizant’s deepening partnership with NVIDIA signals the right trajectory for forward-thinking enterprises aiming to unlock breakthrough value in the AI era.”
According to Sid Nag, Vice President Analyst at Gartner, “Offering agentic AI platforms enables enterprises to build, manage and scale AI agents. Agentic AI platforms that integrate orchestration, real-time learning, governance, and data security capabilities will differentiate providers in the next evolution of AI and automation. New orchestration solutions will emerge as enterprises employ multiple agents and those agents become more autonomous and interactive. Agent orchestration will represent a new class of software. The most effective orchestration solutions will span multiple agents from different software providers.”
Paving the Way for AI-Powered Enterprise Transformation
Cognizant’s collaboration with NVIDIA marks a significant step toward AI-driven enterprise transformation. With AI adoption scaling across industries, this partnership will help businesses harness the full potential of AI, making it more accessible, efficient, and impactful in real-world applications. Cognizant’s continuous innovation in AI infrastructure, digital twins, and industry-specific LLMs underscores its commitment to shaping the future of AI adoption globally.
