Hitachi, Ltd. announced the creation of a global Hitachi AI Factory based on the NVIDIA AI Factory reference architecture, creating a centralized infrastructure designed to accelerate the development and deployment of physical AI solutions across Hitachi’s key business sectors. The AI Factory is powered by the Hitachi iQ with NVIDIA HGX B200 system featuring NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs; Hitachi iQ M Series with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Server Edition GPUs; and NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform . This strategic initiative directly supports Hitachi’s ambition to create and deploy AI that interacts with the real world. The AI Factory will also enable Hitachi to further expand HMAX – the company’s family of AI solutions that solve a wide range of complex problems in the mobility, energy, industrial, and technology sectors.
The centralized AI Factory provides Hitachi’s international teams with a powerful, unified AI computing infrastructure to run AI applications and workflows built on NVIDIA’s full-stack AI platform, which includes NVIDIA AI Enterprise for production-grade AI, as well as NVIDIA Omniverse libraries for simulation, industrial scale, and physically accurate digital twins. This infrastructure enables the rapid development and deployment of advanced physical AI models. These models will acquire and interpret information from physical environments using cameras and sensors; determine next steps; and take actions based on this data.
Today’s announcement builds on recent remarks by Toshiaki Tokunaga, President and CEO of Hitachi, Ltd., regarding the Hitachi-NVIDIA partnership, stating that by leveraging Hitachi iQ built on NVIDIA RTX PRO servers, Hitachi will further accelerate AI innovation. Mr. Tokunaga specified that the ability of NVIDIA RTX PRO servers to accelerate reasoning and physical AI will expand the development of digital twins and the optimization of physical assets (including social infrastructure), while opening up new possibilities such as improving productivity across all business activities.
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The Hitachi AI Factory is strategically located across the US, EMEA, and Japan, ensuring that Hitachi engineers can collaborate seamlessly and access powerful computing resources with low latency, regardless of their location. This interconnected network will support the creation of a wide range of physical AI applications, driving new levels of efficiency, productivity, and safety across all industries.
The initiative reinforces Hitachi’s commitment to using cutting-edge technology to drive social and business innovation.
“The strategic collaboration between Hitachi and NVIDIA is becoming a key engine for solving complex real-world problems and accelerating social innovation,” said Jun Abe, General Manager of the Digital Systems and Services Division. “Our collaboration leverages NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure to achieve both Digital Transformation (DX) and Ecological Transformation (GX) with solutions like Hitachi Rail’s HMAX, which is currently transforming rail operations and maintenance; Hitachi Vantara’s AI solutions portfolio, Hitachi iQ; and Hitachi’s liquid-cooled AI data centers, supporting our generative AI foundation. By establishing a global NVIDIA AI Factory, we can now operate as a true ‘One Hitachi’ across regions and organizations. This synergy will accelerate physical AI innovations, as exemplified by HMAX.”
Operationalizing the corporate vision
Hitachi sees the AI Factory as a key step toward achieving its Lumada 3.0 vision. Lumada is Hitachi’s operating model that helps companies solve business and societal problems through co-created digital transformation. It leverages Hitachi’s extensive domain knowledge and technical expertise, combined with AI technologies, to convert data into value, reducing operational costs and inefficiencies.
Hitachi is unique in its ability to integrate IT, OT, and hardware expertise, as illustrated by the engineering design capabilities, products, and consulting services that comprise Lumada 3.0. The company leads the industrial AI market with disruptive solutions that redefine what’s possible.
“AI Factories are the engines of a new industrial revolution, converting enterprise data into autonomous intelligence for both software and the physical world,” said Justin Boitano, vice president of Enterprise AI Products at NVIDIA. “With NVIDIA’s accelerated compute and software, Hitachi’s AI Factory infrastructure provides a transformative platform for developing and deploying enterprise and physical AI.”
Source: BusinessWire