NatWest enlists Nvidia to help its AI spending tool understand regional accents
What's happening
NatWest has integrated Nvidia's AI speech recognition technology into its new audio-visual spending insights tool to help the product understand customers' regional accents and pronunciations. The upgrade is positioned as part of banks' broader move to build sovereign or locally hosted AI capabilities, illustrated by other UK moves such as Starling working with Nvidia and Civo to train and host a transactional foundation model within a UK sovereign cloud and SBS launching a sovereign AI platform for core banking. Starling's project reportedly uses more than 15 billion [tokens/data points unspecified] and is explicitly aimed at reducing reliance on global technology providers.
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Banks are racing to combine powerful AI partners like Nvidia with UK sovereign cloud initiatives to deliver customer-facing AI features while keeping data and models local.
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- Starling Builds UK-Sovereign AI Model With Nvidia and Civo
Starling is developing a transactional foundation model with Nvidia that will be trained and hosted entirely within a UK sovereign cloud, as the digital bank looks to deepen its use... read more The post Starling Builds UK-Sovereign AI Model With Nvidia and Civo appeared first on Payments Industry Intelligence .
Payments Industry IntelligenceOct 15 - Starling turns to UK sovereign cloud to develop banking AI model
UK digital bank Starling is working with AI chipmaker NVIDIA and UK cloud provider Civo to develop a transactional foundation model, as it looks to expand its artificial intelligence capabilities while reducing reliance on global technology providers. The model will be trained and hosted on Civo’s UK sovereign cloud infrastructure, using more than 15 billion […] The post Starling turns to UK
FinTech GlobalOct 15 - NatWest enlists Nvidia to help its AI spending tool understand regional accents
NatWest has harnessed AI speech recognition technology from Nvidia to help its new audio-visual spending insights tool understand customers' accents and pronunciations.
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