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Vulcan was created after studying 1.5 million shoppers and over 51,000 businesses to understand payment friction.

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The system evaluates payment routes in real time, selecting the optimal path before a transaction is attempted.

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Future plans include expanding the model to handle authentication, routing, fraud detection, and lending decisions as the digital commerce market grows.

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Summary

Built with technology from NVIDIA Corporation and Amazon Web Services, the model tackles payment failures, fraud detection, and routing decisions across India's diverse payment methods.

Initial deployment across billions of data points has increased payment success rates by up to ten percent and detected eight times more international card fraud.

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New Words to Learn

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Artificial Intelligence
computer technology that can learn from data and make decisions
foundation model
a large, versatile AI system that serves as a base for many applications
transaction
the act of sending or receiving money, especially online
fraud
deceptive activity intended to steal money or personal information
routing
the process of directing a payment through the most efficient path
Unified Payments Interface
a widely used Indian system for instant phone‑based money transfers
digital economy
economic activities that rely on digital technologies and the internet
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