Microsoft and NVIDIA team up on new AI initiatives

At NVIDIA GTC, Microsoft and NVIDIA jointly announced new offerings to support AI initiatives. Together, the two companies are adding NVIDIA Grace Blackwell 200 GB Superchips to Azure. The new processor is intended to support large-scale generative AI workloads with up to 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth. 

Together, the two companies plan to support the latest developments in large language model training. Microsoft also plans to deploy end-to-end AI compute fabric with the NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking platform. Microsoft touted its related capabilities for AI like Machine Learning, CycleCloud, AI Studio, Synapse Analytics, and Arc. Going forward, the two companies anticipate closer coordination with the NVIDIA Omniverse platform.

“For years, Microsoft and NVIDIA have collaborated from hardware to systems to VMs, to build new and innovative AI-enabled solutions to address complex challenges in the cloud. Microsoft will continue to expand and enhance its global infrastructure with the most cutting-edge technology in every layer of the stack, delivering improved performance and scalability for cloud and AI workloads and empowering customers to achieve more across industries and domains,” wrote Rani Borkar, CVP for Azure Hardware Systems.