NVIDIA details European banks’ adoption of open AI models at GTC Berlin

NVIDIA outlined how European financial companies are adopting open AI models and accelerated computing at GTC Berlin. Its announcement covered systems already operating and projects still being developed.

Revolut said its PRAGMA infrastructure supports 80 million customers and was designed to accommodate three times that scale. The company said the model already supports credit decisions, subscription detection and product recommendations.

NVIDIA identified Santander as an early user of Kumo, its model family for structured data. It also said bunq’s Finn assistant runs open models on Nebius infrastructure, while NatWest is developing speech technology for British accents and banking terminology.

The projects let institutions tailor AI to their own information and operational requirements. NVIDIA also cited faster processing for financial workloads, including Stripe tests that produced a 42-fold pipeline speed increase and 92% lower costs. Those Stripe figures came from offline testing.

Further development includes Modulr’s specialized models for payment operations and NatWest’s speech work. NVIDIA did not provide launch dates for those systems in its overview.