The industrial vertical is changing, and more so now than in recent history, The World Economic Forum has long heralded that “Manufacturing has experienced a decade of productivity stagnation and demand fragmentation; innovation is long overdue.”

AI is not just for novelty sake and publicity announcements! This is a fundamental believe at Petuum where we are here to solve real-world challenges with AI. Which is why at ICML 2019 (https://icml.cc/), Petuum is excited to showcase a number of our AI technologies.

AI for new product development has applications across multiple industries including healthcare and industrial, two often perceived as disparate industries. In the healthcare vertical, pharma considers a combination of compounds to produce drugs of a particular activity, safety, and delivery while meeting production cost and volume considerations. In the industrial vertical, metallurgy considers a combination of different metals to produce alloys of particular tensile strength, corrosion resistance, and fracture toughness.