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8. Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM)

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Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM), together with its subsidiaries, develops, operates, and franchises quick-service restaurants worldwide. The company has been integrating AI-powered solutions across its restaurant chains to help team members manage complex tasks. Likewise, on March 18, it entered into a strategic partnership with Nvidia to accelerate the deployment of innovative AI technologies in its restaurants across the globe.

Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) became Nvidia’s first AI restaurant partner in the integration of AI in the restaurant and retail industry. The two companies are joining forces to transform the future of dining by unlocking scalable AI applications quickly, reliably and affordably. In order to improve team member and customer experiences, the alliance will leverage the user-friendly NVIDIA NIM microservices, a NVIDIA AI Enterprise component accessible on Amazon Web Services (AWS), to optimize and generate efficiency in restaurant operations.

“NVIDIA’s software makes it affordable for even the largest restaurant company to improve operations and customer experiences, proving AI can pay off at every location,” said Andrew Sun, Global Director of Retail, CPG and QSR Business Development, NVIDIA. “Working with Yum! Brands’ best-in-class Digital & Technology team and proprietary Byte by Yum! Platform to integrate NVIDIA AI software breaks barriers to AI innovation in the restaurant industry – delivering real-time, context-aware intelligence, powered by a scalable inference platform.”