Somerville, MA, February 20, 2024 – Leela AI, a provider of visual intelligence solutions for improving productivity and safety in manufacturing, today announced it has joined NVIDIA Metropolis, a partner program, application framework, and set of developer tools focused on bringing to market a new generation of vision AI applications. NVIDIA Metropolis nurtures a rich ecosystem and offers powerful developer tools to supercharge vision AI applications that are designed to make the world’s most important spaces and operations safer and more efficient.
Leela AI’s Leela Platform, powered by NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs, uses visual AI to deliver continuous time and motion studies of manufacturing activities. Its visual intelligence software measures and analyzes the complex interactions between people, tools, machinery, robots, parts, and products, and compares productivity across shifts and stations. To help achieve the fast, accurate analytics that manufacturers demand, the SaaS cloud platform uses NVIDIA accelerated computing solutions such as CV-CUDA, pretrained models, and NVIDIA Triton Inference Server, which are available with the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform.
NVIDIA Metropolis makes it easier and more cost-effective for enterprises, governments, and integration partners to leverage world-class, AI-enabled solutions to improve critical operational efficiency and safety problems. The NVIDIA Metropolis ecosystem contains a large and growing breadth of members who are investing in the most advanced AI techniques and most efficient deployment platforms and using an enterprise-class approach to their solutions. Its members can gain early access to NVIDIA platform updates to further enhance and accelerate their AI application development efforts. Further, the program offers the opportunity for members to collaborate with industry-leading experts and other AI-driven organizations.
“Everyone knows that if you are serious about delivering enterprise-class AI, you should be looking to use NVIDIA technology,” said Cyrus Shaoul, CEO, Leela AI. “By joining NVIDIA Metropolis, we can best achieve maximum value from NVIDIA’s industry-leading AI tools and services.”
About Leela AI, Inc.
Leela AI is helping manufacturers achieve greater visibility into their operations and drive continuous improvement. Developed by a team from the MIT AI Lab, Google and AMD, Leela’s privacy-enabled visual intelligence software identifies and times every step in the manufacturing process to spotlight bottlenecks and best practices. Leela Platform helps improve productivity by comparing performance across shifts and locations and can spot safety violations and optimize staff redeployment.