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SAS partners with NVIDIA on deep learning and computer vision

SAS announced it is partnering with NVIDIA to help businesses bring artificial intelligence (AI) into their organisations. 


SAS VP of technology Gavin Day says, “AI is transforming businesses across industries, 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.”



NVIDIA VP Ian Buck says, “Our collaboration with SAS will help enterprise customers extract the true value of AI for their company. 


With expanded NVIDIA GPU support across SAS Viya customers can supposedly take advantage of high-performance AI capabilities including image classification, object detection, speech-to-text, image recognition and sentiment detection. 



With the GPU and analytics built into the drone, analysis can be performed where the data resides. Analysing data in real-time results in faster and more accurate decisions.