Investors of the Global Infrastructure Investor Association (GIIA) are ready to allocate funds and expertise to modernize America’s crumbling infrastructure

WASHINGTON, March 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ – The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) today released its 2025 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, assigning the United States an overall grade of “C” and identifying an estimated infrastructure investment gap of $3.7 trillion. Further, transit and energy infrastructure—the core of the economy—received a concerning “D” grade. 

“This report card makes clear that all levels of government must find new ways to deliver greater, sustained infrastructure investment across the United States for decades to come,” said Jon Phillips, CEO of the Global Infrastructure Investor Association (GIIA). “Taxpayers alone cannot finance the safe, reliable, modern infrastructure that the world’s most powerful economy demands. Investment managers and pension funds, offer international expertise and billions of dollars to get the job done—well and quickly.”

Mr. Phillips will also speak today on a panel at the ASCE Solutions Summit, highlighting how private investors are well-positioned to close the U.S. infrastructure investment gap. GIIA represents the largest private infrastructure investors in the world, but the U.S. market only accounts for 25 per cent of its members’ global assets. Investors are ready to meet America’s needs by working with forward-thinking government partners—at the pace of business—to make infrastructure revitalization a reality.

Private investment has a proven track record of delivering safe and reliable infrastructure without burdening taxpayers or increasing deficits at the federal, state and municipal levels. For example, Virginia successfully revamped its I-495 Express Lanes with $280 million in private equity capital using the public private partnership model. This project was delivered on time and on budget, achieving its purpose of reducing travel time, all while supporting 31,000 local jobs, awarding contracts to small businesses and saving taxpayer dollars. By creating a pathway for increased public-private partnerships to finance and manage infrastructure projects, the United States can unlock the capital and expertise needed to deliver modernized infrastructure quickly, while the cost of it is paid over the long-term.

While modest progress has been made since the last ASCE Report Card, substantial infrastructure needs remain, specifically across transit and energy infrastructure—both of which are critical to U.S. jobs and the economy.

“The Administration and Congress should enable and encourage state and local governments to find new, innovative ways of bringing in private investors. This would greatly increase the amount of funding available and accelerate tackling the huge infrastructure investment backlog.” said Phillips. “Harmonizing permitting processes across federal, state and municipal levels, for example, would be a great step, as well as financing for state and local P3 offices, asset inventories, and regional accelerators.”

About GIIA

GIIA was established in 2016 to improve engagement between members, politicians, policymakers and regulators with the aim of increasing much needed investment in infrastructure. We now represent the world’s leading investors in infrastructure, and advisors to the sector, who collectively represent US $2.04 trillion of infrastructure assets under management across 68 countries. Our 100+ members are investing today to provide the smart, sustainable and innovative infrastructure needed for our communities and economies to thrive.

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Cognizant will offer solutions across key growth areas, including enterprise AI agents, tailored industry large language models and infrastructure with NVIDIA AI.

TEANECK, N.J., March 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) announced advancements built on NVIDIA AI aimed at accelerating the cross-industry adoption of AI technology in five key areas: enterprise AI agents, industry-specific large language models (LLMs), digital twins for smart manufacturing, foundational infrastructure for AI, and the capabilities of Cognizant’s Neuro® AI platform to integrate NVIDIA AI technology and orchestrate across the enterprise technology stack.

Cognizant is working with global clients to help them scale AI value efficiently, leveraging extensive industry experience and a comprehensive AI ecosystem comprising infrastructure, data, models, and agent development powered by proprietary platforms and accelerators. NVIDIA AI plays a key role in Cognizant’s AI offerings, with active client engagements underway across industries to enable growth and business transformation.

“We continue to see businesses navigating the transition from proofs of concept to larger-scale implementations of enterprise AI,” said Annadurai Elango, president, Core Technologies and Insights, Cognizant. “Through our collaboration with NVIDIA, Cognizant will be building and deploying solutions that accelerate this process and scale AI value faster for clients through integration of foundational AI elements, platforms and solutions.”

“From models to applications, enterprise AI transformation requires full-stack software and infrastructure with access to domain-specific data,” said Jay Puri, executive vice president of Worldwide Field Operations, NVIDIA. “The Cognizant Neuro AI platform is built with NVIDIA AI to deliver specialized LLMs and applications to ready businesses for the era of AI with reasoning agents and digital twins.”

At NVIDIA GTC 2025, Cognizant presented its intent to deliver offering updates across the following five areas:

Enterprise AI agentification powered by Cognizant® Neuro AI Multi-Agent Accelerator: Running on NVIDIA NIM™ microservices, this framework will enable clients to rapidly build and scale multi-agent AI systems for adaptive operations, real-time decision-making and personalized customer experiences. With these frameworks clients can create and orchestrate agents using a low-code framework or use pre-built agent networks for various enterprise functions and industry-specific processes such as sales, marketing, and supply chain management. The frameworks also allow clients to easily integrate third-party agent networks and most LLMs.

Building multi agents for scale: Cognizant works to enhance business operations through the use of multi-agent systems and integration with NVIDIA NIM, NVIDIA Blueprints, and NVIDIA Riva speech AI. The company will be developing a future-proof agent architecture that supports modular and adaptable agent design to meet evolving needs and the long-term viability and adaptability of AI solutions. This includes pre-built integrations with security guardrails and human oversight. This approach aims to enable enterprises to develop and deploy market-ready applications tailored to their specific needs using the pre-built agent catalog. Examples include industry agents such as insurance claims underwriting multi-agent systems, appeals and grievances multi-agent systems, automated supply chain multi-agent systems and contract management multi-agent systems.

Industry LLMs: Cognizant is developing industry-oriented LLMs powered by NVIDIA NeMo and NVIDIA NIM. These solutions are tailored to meet the unique needs of different industries and build on Cognizant’s deep industry expertise to drive innovation and improve business outcomes. For example, Cognizant has developed a fine-tuned language model to transform healthcare administrative processes. This system will leverage Cognizant’s domain expertise and NVIDIA technology to enhance medical code extraction and support higher accuracy, reduced errors, and better compliance with HIPAA and GDPR standards. It is designed to help clients cut costs, decrease latency, improve revenue cycle management and help ensure accurate risk adjustment. In internal Cognizant benchmarking, the model has demonstrated effectiveness in reducing effort by 30-75 percent, boosting coding accuracy by 30-40 percent, and accelerating time to market by 40-45 percent.

Industrial digital twins: Cognizant’s smart manufacturing and digital twin offerings, accelerated by NVIDIA Omniverse™, will aim to drive digital transformation by combining NVIDIA Omniverse’s synthetic data generation, accelerated computing, and physical AI simulation technologies to address challenges in manufacturing operations and supply chain management. These capabilities will be designed to assist clients in enhancing plant layout and process simulations with real-time insights and predictive analytics, while also supporting improved operational efficiency and optimized plant capital expenditure. This offering enables integration of diverse data from applications, systems and sensors with synthetic data, allowing clients to simulate various scenarios and find solutions to issues in the plant. Additionally, by building the necessary digital infrastructure, including IT systems and skilled personnel, Cognizant’s offerings can be used to create and manage digital twins for large-scale systems, such as factories, smart grids, warehouses, or entire cities, with precision and efficiency.

Infrastructure for AI: Implementing AI effectively requires robust AI infrastructure and data prepared for AI. Cognizant’s infrastructure for AI, accelerated by NVIDIA, will provide clients access to NVIDIA AI technology via “GPU as a Service”, along with secure and managed infrastructure. This helps ensure that AI models can be run in various environments, including the cloud, data centers or at the edge. Additionally, Cognizant intends to use NVIDIA RAPIDS™ Accelerator for Apache Spark to help clients accelerate data pipelines for AI implementations, facilitating efficient and scalable operations. In one example implementation for a large healthcare client in the U.S., use of Cognizant’s infrastructure for AI resulted in a 2.7x cost efficiency improvement and a 1.8x enhancement in the performance of their Spark workloads.

“As we enter the era of AI industrialization, enterprises are seeking to accelerate the value velocity of their AI investments—focusing on outsized economic impact, agentic-led workflow transformation, and industry-specific deployments,” said Nitish Mittal, Partner, Everest Group. “Cognizant’s deepening partnership with NVIDIA signals the right trajectory for forward-thinking enterprises aiming to unlock breakthrough value in the AI era.”

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BANGKOK, March 25, 2025 /CNW/ — On March 24, the 46th Bangkok International Motor Show kicked off with three major announcements from GAC INTERNATIONAL: the launch of the “One GAC 2.0” global strategic upgrade plan; the rollout of the “Thailand Action Plan”; and the market launch of the AION UT, a global strategic model, and the M8 PHEV, a benchmark for luxury new energy MPVs, in Thailand.

The “One GAC 2.0” strategy is based on a vision, a goal, and an image, supported by a local initiative and five key actions to accelerate global expansion.

The “Mobility Value Creator for a Better Life” vision reflects the goal of becoming a world-class automotive brand with international influence and reliability while establishing an image as “a high-quality, high-tech, and reliable partner for global consumers.” The local initiative “Act Locally, Integrate Locally, Serve Locally, Contribute Locally” promotes tailored market integration. The five key measures focus on developing products, smart manufacturing, sales channels, services, and energy eco and mobility systems, securing global competitiveness and customer-centric innovation.

Building on this, GAC has officially launched the Thailand Action Plan, reaffirming its commitment to “In Thailand, for Thailand” through local market integration and customer service.

As part of its product strategy, GAC has introduced the AION UT and M8 PHEV, which are currently on pre-sale. To expand its presence, GAC plans to open 80 new dealerships across Thailand by 2025. In terms of service, GAC will implement the GAC INTERNATIONAL Sales Service Standard System (GSSW) to enhance the customer experience. The company will also continue introducing new models into the Thailand Smart Factory for local production. In addition, GAC is advancing the “One Hundred Cities, One Thousand Charging Stations” plan, establishing the Bangkok Power Battery Service Center, and building two mobility centers. To foster long-term growth, GAC has partnered with institutions such as Rajamangala University of Technology Isan to establish Thailand’s first international new energy talent development center.

From “product export” to “ecosystem export”: Through the “One GAC 2.0” strategy, the “Thailand Action Plan”, and the pre-sales of the AION UT and M8 PHEV, GAC INTERNATIONAL not only offers consumers in Thailand and Southeast Asia higher-quality options and enhanced mobility experiences, but also uses Thailand as a strategic hub to showcase China’s leading smart manufacturing solutions to the world.

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