AI @ 3M

3M introduces AI tools including Ask 3M and digital materials hub that accelerate product design processes by simplifying and speeding innovation workflows.

• Morningstar News: How 3M AI Tools Accelerate How Ideas Become Products

3M to debut 'Ask 3M', a generative AI-powered digital assistant accelerating customer innovation and expanded Digital Materials Hub at CES 2026, highlighting enhanced AI-enabled customer engagement.

• PR Newswire: 3M To Debut AI-Powered Assistant 'Ask 3M' and Expanded Digital Materials Hub at CES 2026

3M advances AI infrastructure solutions for data centers, including sensor-enabled cabling and optical fiber interconnects offering 10x energy efficiency improvement supporting hyperscale AI workloads.

• 3M Newsroom: Powering the AI revolution — 3M's advanced solutions help data centers
• Reuters: 3M solutions enhance efficiency, speed, and sustainability in AI data centers

3M unveils AI-first transformation strategies, promoting data-powered decision-making and smarter factory systems to optimize production and enhance safety.

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

3M announces a $3.5 billion R&D investment focusing heavily on AI to speed new product development and transform research, introducing a digital materials hub with 300+ product models.

• Manufacturing Dive: 3M to spend $3.5B on R&D with AI focus 2025-2027

3M focuses AI usage strictly on complex problems unsolvable by other methods, rolling out AI under global digital innovation lead Paul Cardno.

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

3M revolutionizes operations with AI and generative AI across sectors including supply chain efficiency and clinical denial management.

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

3M's AI initiatives expected to expand significantly in manufacturing and healthcare, demonstrating broadening use of AI and ML technologies.

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

3M publishes internal insights on large language models and AI safety, reflecting active engagement in foundational AI understanding.

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

Partnerships with Telefónica Tech and Amazon enable 3M to deploy AI solutions optimizing hospital emergency management and automating clinical documentation via conversational AI.

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

3M embraces AI and machine learning broadly across business units to drive innovation and operational efficiencies.

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

3M standardizes and automates sales forecasting with Azure Machine Learning; 3M AI evangelist highlights systems improving clinical documentation.

• 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

Collaboration with Argonne National Lab uses machine learning to improve energy efficiency in material manufacturing processes.

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

3M applies AI and speech-powered clinician solutions to reduce technology burdens in healthcare revenue cycle management.

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

3M leverages Amazon Web Services machine learning capabilities to innovate both traditional products like sandpaper and new product fields.

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

3M selects C3.ai as its strategic AI software platform to develop AI applications starting with predictive healthcare and supply chain analytics.

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