Santander and Nvidia Collaborate to Develop Banking AI
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On October 19, 2026, PYMNTS reported that Santander had begun collaborating with Nvidia to evaluate AI models and agents for banks and deploy related capabilities. Santander AI Lab is building “Model Arena” to evaluate open-weight models, while also using Nvidia NeMo Customizer to specialize the models. The report cited relevant experiments indicating that the cost of serving a single interaction in selected experiments fell from 5 euros to approximately 0.03 euros, while the cost of customer service experiments decreased by more than 50%. The progress disclosed in the report currently focuses on model evaluation, model specialization, and cost testing.
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- PYMNTSSantander partners with Nvidia to build new AI banking capabilities
Santander and Nvidia are collaborating to help the bank evaluate AI models and agents and efficiently deploy related capabilities. Santander AI lab built “Model Arena” to evaluate open-weight models and uses Nvidia NeMo Customizer to specialize models; selected experiments reduced the cost of each interaction from €5 to approximately €0.03, while customer service experiment costs fell by more than 50%.
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