En Cannes Lions, los socios de NVIDIA transforman la publicidad y el marketing gracias a la IA

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La era digital aportó rapidez al sector de la publicidad y el marketing; la era de la inteligencia artificial le está aportando operaciones autónomas.

 

Para las empresas que desarrollan tecnologías de última generación para la publicidad y el marketing, la cuestión ya no es si deben adoptar la inteligencia artificial, sino si su infraestructura es capaz de soportarla a la velocidad y a la escala que exige el sector.

 

En Cannes Lions, que se celebra del 22 al 26 de junio en Francia, líderes del sector como Alembic, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Criteo, Higgsfield, KERV.ai y Taboola están mostrando cómo las tecnologías de NVIDIA ayudan a potenciar la creatividad y permiten operaciones más rápidas y autónomas a escala empresarial.

 

Inteligencia decisional a escala empresarial


La plataforma de IA causal Alembic ayuda a resolver uno de los mayores retos de las empresas: demostrar qué iniciativas de marketing impulsan realmente el crecimiento, y no limitarse a informar de lo que ha ocurrido. Modelar la verdadera causalidad de forma simultánea en todos los canales, mercados y públicos requiere una infraestructura de IA capaz de procesar conjuntos de datos enormes y en constante evolución sin reducirlos a suposiciones basadas en correlaciones.

 

Los sistemas NVIDIA DGX Vera Rubin NVL72 permiten a Alembic ampliar la escala de sus modelos de IA causal para analizar más variables, ejecutar simulaciones de mayor envergadura y cuantificar los verdaderos factores que impulsan el crecimiento en las inversiones en marketing. Alembic será la primera empresa de IA causal en utilizar los SuperPODs NVIDIA DGX Vera Rubin para el modelado causal a escala empresarial, lo que proporcionará a los directivos una única fuente de información imparcial sobre qué factores han impulsado los resultados empresariales y dónde se está malgastando el capital, de modo que puedan tomar decisiones futuras con confianza.

 

La inferencia de Alembic se ejecuta en una infraestructura privada de supercomputación dentro de los centros de datos de Equinix, donde ya se almacenan los datos de la empresa, lo que permite mantener las cargas de trabajo de IA a nivel local. World Wide Technology amplía esta solución a entornos seguros y regulados. Juntas, las empresas ofrecen una pila completa de IA empresarial diseñada específicamente para ejecutivos y responsables de datos encargados de tomar decisiones de inversión.

 

Pujas más inteligentes a la velocidad de una subasta


Para los anunciantes, mostrar anuncios y recomendaciones relevantes en miles de millones de transacciones diarias requiere una inteligencia artificial que sea precisa, rápida y lo suficientemente asequible como para funcionar a gran escala.

 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) aúna la infraestructura en la nube, los modelos base y la computación acelerada por GPU de NVIDIA en una pila integrada para el sector de la tecnología publicitaria, capaz de escalar para la era de los agentes de IA. AWS ofrece a los anunciantes, a las plataformas de demanda (DSP), a las plataformas de oferta (SSP) y a los proveedores de software independientes una implementación de referencia lista para producción que permite ejecutar pujas basadas en IA directamente en las subastas, gracias al servidor de inferencia NVIDIA Triton, que proporciona inferencia de aprendizaje profundo con la rapidez suficiente para adaptarse a los plazos de las subastas en tiempo real.

 

Esto significa que las empresas de tecnología publicitaria pueden pasar de un proceso de toma de decisiones basado en reglas a modelos impulsados por IA para la optimización del precio de puja, la activación de audiencias y la valoración de ofertas directamente dentro del proceso de subasta en tiempo real.

 

La empresa de publicidad Criteo ayuda a los minoristas a mostrar el producto adecuado al comprador adecuado en el momento adecuado, a través de una de las redes de recomendaciones más grandes del sector de la publicidad digital. Para garantizar que esas recomendaciones sigan siendo relevantes, es necesario volver a entrenar continuamente su inteligencia artificial con miles de millones de historiales de compradores, un proceso en el que la rapidez se traduce directamente en calidad.

 

En colaboración con NVIDIA, Criteo ha logrado duplicar aproximadamente la velocidad de entrenamiento de modelos en las GPU NVIDIA Blackwell, gracias a la biblioteca abierta NVIDIA cuEmbed. Esa eficiencia ya permite liberar unas 17 000 horas de GPU al año, y ambas empresas están ampliando aún más el alcance de este trabajo.

 

Taboola está aplicando la misma lógica de infraestructura a la IA conversacional, utilizando las GPU de NVIDIA para impulsar DeeperDive, su motor de respuestas basado en IA, y ampliando esa infraestructura a plataformas de IA y chatbots para que puedan generar ingresos mediante la publicidad.

 

La IA agentiva en todo el flujo de trabajo de marketing


En el ámbito del marketing y en otros sectores, los agentes de inteligencia artificial actúan cada vez más como compañeros de trabajo digitales, asumiendo tareas de larga duración que abarcan la planificación, la ejecución y la optimización. Sin embargo, las empresas solo pueden implementar estos agentes cuando cuentan con los controles adecuados, entre los que se incluyen medidas de seguridad, la capacidad de auditoría y la gestión de permisos basada en roles.

 

El NVIDIA Agent Toolkit, que incluye los blueprints de NVIDIA NemoClaw y el entorno de ejecución seguro NVIDIA OpenShell, ofrece estos controles.

 

Por ejemplo, Higgsfield AI, una plataforma de producción de generadores de vídeo e imágenes basados en IA, ofrece los agentes «Higgsfield Supercomputer», que gestionan todo el ciclo de vida de la automatización del marketing: desde la ideación de campañas, la planificación y la producción creativa hasta la publicación y la optimización autónoma de las campañas, todo ello en una única interfaz. La plataforma coordina los principales modelos de lenguaje a gran escala junto con más de 35 modelos de imagen, audio y vídeo, incluidos los modelos propios de Higgsfield, «Soul» y «Soul 2.0», desarrollados sobre la arquitectura NVIDIA Blackwell.

 

Como parte de esta colaboración, el software NVIDIA Agent Toolkit, que incluye los modelos abiertos de NVIDIA Nemotron, impulsa subagentes especializados dentro del superordenador Higgsfield, que funcionan de forma continua en cada campaña. NemoClaw y OpenShell se están integrando para proporcionar la capa de confianza empresarial.

 

El resultado: todo el ciclo de vida del marketing, desde la concepción y la producción creativa hasta la publicación, el análisis del rendimiento y la optimización, está disponible en una única interfaz. En esta plataforma se crean campañas de marketing para casi 400 de las empresas de la lista Fortune 500.

 

Inteligencia contextual y de contenidos a gran escala


Para que la IA comprenda el contenido a nivel de significado se necesita una infraestructura avanzada. La pila multimodal de NVIDIA ofrece las capacidades de búsqueda vectorial, procesamiento de datos y comprensión de vídeo que hacen que este tipo de inteligencia sea viable a escala de producción.

 

El «Moment Match Engine» de KERV, empresa líder en medios impulsada por IA, evalúa multitud de señales en cada fotograma de vídeo y recurso multimedia para identificar escenas, objetos y productos concretos, y ofrece recomendaciones de contenido basadas en la creatividad publicitaria —es decir, los elementos visuales y textuales de un anuncio— con el fin de impulsar una mayor interacción.

 

KERV.ai ha optimizado recientemente su proceso de tratamiento de datos, logrando mejoras de más de 10 veces en velocidad y eficiencia al utilizar el modelo abierto NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni en la plataforma. La solución de KERV analiza el contenido de cada anuncio o briefing publicitario, a qué público se dirige y en qué momento concreto de los entornos de contenido debe centrarse.

 

En MediaPerf, un banco de pruebas abierto para la comprensión de vídeo mediante IA, Nemotron 3 Nano Omni —adoptado por socios del ecosistema, entre ellos PYLER, que utiliza sistemas NVIDIA DGX B200— ofreció el mayor rendimiento y el menor coste de inferencia de todos los modelos evaluados, tanto de código abierto como de código cerrado.

 

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