“Many of you probably have heard from our recently closed fiscal year earnings that generative AI demand drove $3 billion in Accenture bookings,” Lan Guan, chief AI officer at Accenture, said in a press conference Tuesday. “However, many of our clients, many business organizations, do not see the full benefits of gen AI yet.”
In fact, Guan said, Accenture estimates only 10% of companies have fully scaled gen AI. She cited cost, complexity, technical debt, data, and talent readiness as common hurdles enterprises face. But the new Accenture Nvidia business group is aimed at helping clients overcome those challenges and get the most out of gen AI.
“We believe the next wave of agentic AI will be a huge step forward, will be a game changer in how our clients reinvent their business,” Guan said. “To me, it’s no longer just about prompting the prebuilt large language models and waiting for a response — what we call zero-shot prompting. Now, with agentic AI, we can actually develop specialized capabilities that can independently and autonomously, or act, to make progress against goals or humans’ intentions.”
