We are honoured to be partnering with NVIDIA and joining an elite group of startups disrupting the status quo across industries around the world.

The NVIDIA Inception program is tailor-made to supercharge the journey of startups towards success by offering unparalleled access to state-of-the-art technology, expert guidance, valuable connections, and resources.

NVIDIA is an industry leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI) hardware and software. NVIDIA GPUs are now essential for high-speed computing required for training machine learning and deep learning models with billion-scale datasets. NVIDIA also provides optimised software stacks to accelerate training and inference on accelerated multi-GPU compute infrastructure.

By joining forces with NVIDIA, Zoala is thrilled to avail NVIDIA’s technology and support as we continue to innovate and grow our business. NVIDIA’s accelerated AI framework can significantly enhance the scalability of Zo, our AI-powered mental wellness companion. We believe that, together with NVIDIA, in the coming months, we will be able to make Zo respond faster and help many more concurrent users with an improved and seamless experience.

Some NVIDIA technologies we are looking forward to leveraging:

• NVIDIA NeMo: An open-source software that ensures smart applications powered by large language models (LLMs) are accurate, appropriate, on topic and secure. The software lets developers align LLM-powered apps so they are safe and stay within the domains of a company’s expertise. 

• NVIDIA Rapids: An open-source suite of GPU-accelerated Python libraries designed to improve data science and analytics pipelines. Rapids provides access to GPU parallelism and high-bandwidth memory speed through Python interfaces, leading to faster performance at scale.

• NVIDIA Riva: A GPU-accelerated multilingual speech and translation AI software development kit for building fully customizable, real-time conversational AI pipelines–including automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech, and neural machine translation applications-that can be deployed at almost every infrastructure.

• NVIDIA Omniverse ACE: A suite of real-time AI solutions for end-to-end development and deployment of interactive avatars and digital human applications. 

• Developer Forums: Zo, known for a mental health first approach, remains highly adaptable to individual needs. With NVIDIA’s developer forums, we eagerly embrace the valuable insights of a large developer community, streamlining the integration of essential monitoring and explainability tools, all at the click of a button.

Zoala services that stand to particularly benefit from the NVIDIA Inception program are:

Zo, Wellness Buddy: An artificial intelligence-powered application programmed to communicate with adolescents, detecting early signs of deterioration in mental wellness, supporting them on their mental health journey and in building resilience.