NVIDIA-Powered AI Models Cut Ship Fuel Use and Emissions
- AI and satellite data are used to predict ocean currents and reduce the environmental impact of ship movements.
- The NVIDIA-backed startup, named after the Greek goddess of the sea, has a diverse AI team, including women in technical roles.
Amphitrite, a France-based weather modelling startup, has combined artificial intelligence (AI) and satellite data to enrich maritime shipping and clean up ocean pollution.
The startup's AI models, powered by NVIDIA technology, are being trained to simulate and predict ocean conditions like currents, weather patterns, and waves to help vessels and ships optimise their routes.
By forecasting weather conditions, ships can cruise through the sea more efficiently, saving time and fuel and reducing carbon emissions.
Alexandre Stegner, cofounder and CEO of Amphitrite, said: "We’re at a turning point on the modernization of oceanic atmospheric forecasting.
"There’s a wide portfolio of applications that can use these domain-specific oceanographic AI models — first and foremost, we’re using them to help foster the energy transition and alleviate environmental issues.”
The French startup, named after the Greek mythology goddess of the sea, uses AI to analyse satellite data from NASA's Sentinel-3 satellite and the SWOT mission to predict ocean currents and weather patterns more accurately and efficiently than traditional methods. The AI models focus on specific factors, such as the ocean's surface currents, which are vital for optimising fuel consumption, as well as other factors like waves and winds for safety and efficiency.
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Amphitrite’s AI leverages NVIDIA technology—NVIDIA H100 GPUs and Earth-2 simulation platforms—to process data and give accurate and precise predictions. For example, Amphitrite helped a shipping line reduce its carbon emissions by 10% by analysing the currents in the Mediterranean Sea.
Not only does its technology improve shipping efficiency, but it is also used for oceanic litter-collection operations. They have teamed up with a non-governmental organisation to track plastic movement in the Pacific Ocean and find ways to reduce its environmental impact.
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Evangelos Moschos, cofounder and chief technology officer of Amphitrite, added: "It’s only with NVIDIA accelerated computing that we can achieve optimal performance and parallelization when analyzing data on the whole ocean.
"The amount of public satellite data that’s available is still much larger than the number of ways people are using this information. Fusing AI and satellite imagery, Amphitrite can improve the accuracy of global ocean current analyses by up to 2x compared with traditional methods.
“This is still rare in the industry, but it’s something we’re really proud of on the technical front, especially since we founded the company in honor of Amphitrite, a powerful but often overlooked female figure in history."
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