Rudy Lai

AI @ General Electric

Diversified industrial, energy & healthcare
Industry
Last updated
July 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM

Summary

  • General Electric (GE) has progressively embedded AI across its industrial, healthcare, energy, and manufacturing operations from 2016 through 2025, evolving from strategic ambitions to broad practical applications including predictive maintenance, generative AI platforms for employees, and AI-driven sustainability solutions.
  • By 2024-2025, GE's AI initiatives have demonstrated substantial measurable impacts such as a 14% reduction in gas turbine emissions, $1.6 billion in operational savings through predictive maintenance, and improvements in supply chain forecasting, manufacturing automation, and healthcare imaging workflows through partnerships with major cloud and tech companies.
  • GE's AI maturity advanced steadily from traditional predictive and analytics uses towards agentic AI research and generative AI deployments across divisions like GE Aerospace, GE HealthCare, and GE Vernova, with recent launches of AI innovation labs and wide-scale employee AI platforms indicating deepening integration and future growth potential.

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7 AI Use Cases at General Electric

Agentic Healthcare
2025
Customer Facing
Traditional
Generative
Agentic
Outcome
GE HealthCare's AI Innovation Lab develops agentic AI projects like the Health Companion that autonomously plan and execute healthcare tasks, improving diagnosis and patient interaction. [1]
Emission Reduction
2025
Traditional
Generative
Agentic
Outcome
Risk
GE Vernova applies AI-enabled digital twins and autonomous tuning of gas turbines to reduce CO and NOx emissions by up to 14%, optimizing energy production to support sustainability and regulatory compliance. [1]
Predictive Maintenance
2024
Traditional
Generative
Agentic
Outcome
Costs
GE uses AI models analyzing data from equipment such as temperature, pressure, and vibration to predict failures and schedule maintenance proactively, reducing costly downtime and operational expenses. [1][2]
Energy Trading
2024
Traditional
Generative
Agentic
Outcome
Revenue
GE Vernova uses AI/ML to streamline renewable energy trading by optimizing margins, managing risk, and enhancing decision-making speed in volatile markets. [1]
Healthcare Imaging
2024
Customer Facing
Traditional
Generative
Agentic
Outcome
GE HealthCare integrates AI-enabled applications and partners with Amazon to develop generative AI models that streamline clinician access and processing of patient diagnostic data, enhancing efficiency and care quality. [1][2]
Generative Knowledge
2024
Traditional
Generative
Agentic
Outcome
GE Aerospace launched a company-wide generative AI platform to assist employees with insights spanning engine monitoring, inspections, and data analysis for improved decision-making. [1]
Supply Chain Forecasting
2024
Traditional
Generative
Agentic
Outcome
Costs
GE Appliances employs AI to anticipate and resolve supply chain disruptions before they arise, improving inventory management and ensuring timely product availability. [1]

Timeline

2025 Q4

1 updates

GE HealthCare announces AI Innovation Lab showcasing five new research projects employing agentic AI, including the Health Companion project, spotlighting cutting-edge AI-driven healthcare advancements.

2025 Q3

3 updates

GE intensifies AI research developing new architectures for AI-based tasks in image processing and beyond, with reports highlighting GE's strategy to dominate industrial AI integrating agentic AI capabilities.

2025 Q2

2 updates

GE Vernova leads AI advances in energy transition and carbon reduction, deploying AI-driven analytics and digital twins achieving emissions reductions (14% CO and NOx), $1.6 billion in operational savings, and improved grid intelligence supported by new whitepapers.

2025 Q1

2 updates

GE Appliances introduces AI-powered innovations in smart kitchen, laundry, and shopping to enhance daily consumer experiences; GE accelerates AI deployment in manufacturing plants for predictive maintenance.

2024 Q4

4 updates

GE HealthCare accelerates AI adoption integrating third-party AI applications into imaging platforms; GE Vernova advances AI/ML for renewable energy trading optimization; predictive maintenance models further reduce equipment downtime and increase efficiency; GE HealthCare collaborates with RadNet to transform imaging using AI.

2024 Q3

5 updates

Significant expansion in AI deployments: GE Aerospace adopts AI for engine inspections and monitoring; GE Appliances uses AI for supply chain forecasting; GE Healthcare partners with Amazon on generative AI models for clinical data; GE Aerospace launches company-wide generative AI platform.

2024 Q2: no updates

2024 Q1

1 updates

GE Vernova launches new AI-based software solutions focusing on advancing industrial sustainability and operations goals through AI-enabled technologies.

2023 Q4: no updates

2023 Q3

1 updates

GE publishes resources for HR practitioners on AI and generative AI to increase workforce understanding, signaling broad internal AI education initiatives.

2023 Q2: no updates

2023 Q1: no updates

2022 Q4: no updates

2022 Q3: no updates

2022 Q2: no updates

2022 Q1: no updates

2021 Q4: no updates

2021 Q3

1 updates

GE begins leveraging AI and digital twins for predictive maintenance, enhancing equipment operational performance and reliability.

2021 Q2: no updates

2021 Q1: no updates

2020 Q4: no updates

2020 Q3: no updates

2020 Q2: no updates

2020 Q1: no updates

2019 Q4: no updates

2019 Q3: no updates

2019 Q2: no updates

2019 Q1

1 updates

GE engineers report leveraging AI to reduce downtime and efficiency losses by applying AI to industrial problems, marking operational AI deployments.

2018 Q4: no updates

2018 Q3: no updates

2018 Q2: no updates

2018 Q1: no updates

2017 Q4: no updates

2017 Q3: no updates

2017 Q2

2 updates

GE drives digital transformation through AI and machine learning using big data, and builds an AI-skilled workforce spreading AI across operations starting internally.

2017 Q1: no updates

2016 Q4

1 updates

GE initiates its AI ambitions, positioning itself as a future industrial AI powerhouse, founded by experts including astrophysics and AI specialists pushing into AI technologies.