AI @ 3M

3M launches AI-powered digital assistant tools aiding customers with design challenges; AI accelerates product development reducing time from weeks to days.

• Wall Street Journal: Faster-Drying Paint and Better-Smelling Soap: AI tries product development
• MSN: 3M announces AI-powered digital assistant tools

3M prepares to debut AI-powered digital assistant 'Ask 3M' at CES 2026 alongside expanded AI-enabled innovation platforms; discussions of AI-driven job impact emerge.

• PR Newswire: 3M to debut AI-powered assistant 'Ask 3M' and expanded 3M Digital Materials Hub at CES 2026

3M advances AI infrastructure innovations with products enhancing data center efficiency, reliability, and energy savings; optical fiber interconnects enable terabit speeds with significant energy efficiency gains.

• 3M News: Powering the AI revolution — 3M's advanced solutions help drive efficiency, speed, and reliability in data centers
• Klover AI: 3M's AI Strategy: Analysis of Dominance in Material Science Industrial AI

3M leads AI-first transformation strategy with partners like Salesforce; AI enables smarter factories optimizing safety, production, and efficiency.

• Perficient: AI-First Transformation Strategy Unfolds at the 3M Open
• 3M News: Moving from now to next: How 3M's technology is shaping tomorrow

3M commits $3.5B on R&D including AI platforms like the digital materials hub; AI will fundamentally change research and new-product development.

• Manufacturing Dive: 3M to spend $3.5B on R&D focusing on AI and innovation

3M emphasizes AI use only for complex problems unsolvable by other means; Paul Cardno leads digital innovation; announces AI-powered tools for customer innovation.

• Computing UK: 3M: 'We only use AI for complex problems we can't solve any other way'

3M applies AI and generative AI extensively in supply chain to boost efficiency and reduce costs, also integrating ML to manage clinical denials enhancing revenue cycle management.

• AIM Media House: How is 3M revolutionizing its operations with AI and generative AI
• 3M Inside Angle: The benefits of machine learning to mitigate and manage front-end clinical denials

3M's AI initiatives set to expand significantly in manufacturing, healthcare, and other areas, leveraging AI and ML to transform operations.

• PitchGrade: 3M: AI Use Cases 2024
• 3M Buckley Innovation Centre: Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in healthcare

3M discusses AI safety and knowledge of large language models (LLMs) internally to understand AI capabilities better.

• 3M Inside Angle: AI talk: What do LLMs know? And AI safety

3M works with Telefónica Tech and AWS to optimize hospital emergency services and advance conversational and generative AI for healthcare clinical documentation.

• telefonica.com: Telefónica Tech and 3M optimise hospital emergencies with AI
• Forbes: Amazon & 3M Will Use Generative AI To Ease Documentation for Healthcare Providers
• STAT: Amazon partners with 3M to advance conversational AI in healthcare
• Fierce Healthcare: 3M taps AWS for conversational AI to advance medical notetaking

3M's AI adoption covers various business areas to improve products and processes, emphasizing use in healthcare and manufacturing.

• Analytics India Magazine: How 3M Deploys AI-focussed Tech

3M standardizes and automates sales forecasting using Azure Machine Learning; AI evangelist discusses clinical documentation improvements via AI.

• Microsoft: 3M standardizes, automates, and accelerates sales forecasting with Azure Machine Learning
• Becker's Hospital Review: The ABCs of artificial intelligence with 3M's AI evangelist

3M collaborates with Argonne National Lab to enhance material manufacturing processes through machine learning to improve energy efficiency.

• Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (.gov): Argonne and 3M use machine learning to enhance material manufacturing process

3M uses speech and AI-powered clinician-assistive solutions to reduce technology burdens in healthcare revenue cycles.

• Becker's Hospital Review: How 3M is using AI to reduce tech burdens in the revenue cycle

3M leverages AWS machine learning to innovate on legacy products like sandpaper and explore new fields.

• Amazon.com: With machine learning, manufacturing giant 3M innovates products old and new

3M partners with C3.ai to develop and deploy AI applications starting with predictive healthcare and supply chain analytics.

• C3 AI: 3M Selects C3.ai As Strategic AI Software Platform