Nvidia enters collaboration with Natera

Natera (NTRA) announced a new collaboration with NVIDIA (NVDA) to accelerate the development of Natera’s multimodal AI foundation model platform and expand applications across precision medicine. Under the collaboration, Natera will integrate its unique longitudinal and multi-time point in vivo datasets and proprietary machine learning models with NVIDIA’s high-performance computing platforms, accelerated libraries, and AI frameworks. Together, the companies aim to establish the computational infrastructure required to train and deploy large scale AI models on complex medical datasets, enabling more precise diagnostics, deeper biological insight, and new tools to support personalized therapeutic decisions. Natera will utilize several NVIDIA platforms under the collaboration, including: NVIDIA Parabricks for accelerating bioinformatics workflows; NVIDIA BioNeMo for optimizing large-scale model training; and NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit for building multi-agent AI systems designed for clinical and research use. Early engineering milestones show an average reduction of 75.7% in running time and 59.2% in cost using Parabricks for genomic analysis, and 45.5% gains in training speed by integrating NVIDIA Transformer Engine.