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NVIDIA Unveils NIM Agent Blueprints to Accelerate Enterprise AI Development

• By John K. Waters
• 09/03/2024

Nvidia has announced the availability of a comprehensive catalog of pretrained, customizable AI workflows designed to streamline the development and deployment of generative AI applications across various industries. The new NIM Agent Blueprints was developed with NVIDIA global partners to empower of enterprise developers to build AI applications for such use cases as customer service avatars, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and drug discovery virtual screening.

"To accelerate business transformation, enterprises need blueprints for canonical generative AI workflows like digital human customer service chatbots, retrieval-augmented generation and drug discovery," said Justin Boitano, VP and GM of enterprise and edge computing at NVIDIA, in a blog post. "While NVIDIA NIM microservices help make these models efficient and accessible for enterprise use, building enterprise generative AI applications is a complex, multistep process."

The NIM Agent Blueprints provide developers with a robust starting point for creating AI applications that utilize multiple AI agents. Each blueprint includes sample applications built with NVIDIA NeMo, NVIDIA NIM, and partner microservices, along with reference code, customization documentation, and deployment tools. Enterprises can tailor these blueprints using their own data, enabling the continuous refinement of AI applications based on user feedback.
 
The first available NIM Agent Blueprints include a digital human workflow for enhancing customer service, a generative virtual screening workflow for accelerating drug discovery, and a multimodal PDF data extraction workflow for enterprise RAG. These blueprints are free to download and can be deployed in production using the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform.

NVIDIA's partner ecosystem, including global system integrators such as Accenture, Deloitte, SoftServe, and World Wide Technology (WWT), is poised to bring NIM Agent Blueprints to enterprises worldwide, the company says. Additionally, companies such as Cisco, Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and Lenovo are offering NVIDIA-accelerated infrastructure and solutions to facilitate the deployment of these blueprints.

"Generative AI is advancing at lightspeed. Frontier model capabilities are growing exponentially with a continuous stream of new applications," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, in a statement. "The enterprise AI wave is here. With the NVIDIA AI Enterprise toolkit — including NeMo, NIM microservices, and the latest NIM Agent Blueprints — our expansive partner ecosystem is poised to help enterprises customize open-source models, build bespoke AI applications, and deploy them seamlessly across any cloud, on-premises, or at the edge."

NVIDIA plans to release additional blueprints monthly, covering workflows for customer experience, content generation, software engineering, and product research and development, further enabling enterprises to harness the power of generative AI.