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accession: "0001041061-25-000018"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "YUM"
cik: "0001041061"
company_name: "YUM BRANDS INC"
filed_at: "2025-03-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T12:51:17.389733+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
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source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Yum! Brands partners with NVIDIA to accelerate AI in restaurants globally

## Summary
- Yum! (KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Habit Burger) and NVIDIA collaborate to deploy AI across 61,000+ locations.
- Voice AI agents, computer vision, and restaurant intelligence pilots underway at select Taco Bell and Pizza Hut.
- Broader rollout to 500 restaurants planned for Q2 2025 using NVIDIA Riva and NIM microservices.
- AI solutions aim to enhance drive-thru efficiency, labor management, and personalized customer interactions.
- Yum!'s proprietary Byte by Yum! platform will integrate NVIDIA AI Enterprise software on AWS.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001041061-25-000018
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: YUM
- cik: 0001041061
- company_name: YUM BRANDS INC
- filed_at: 2025-03-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041061/000104106125000018/0001041061-25-000018-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041061/000104106125000018/yum-20250318.htm

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