REDMOND, Wash. and SAN JOSE, Calif. - Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT). has announced a series of new integrations with NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA), aimed at boosting artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing services across various Microsoft platforms, including Azure, Azure AI, Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft 365.
The collaboration introduces the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB200 processor to Azure, enhancing Microsoft's AI infrastructure with advanced capabilities for processing large AI models in areas like natural language processing and computer vision. Additionally, Microsoft has launched the Azure NC H100 v5 virtual machine, which is based on NVIDIA's H100 NVL platform and supports Multi-Instance GPU technology for scalable AI workloads.
In the healthcare sector, Microsoft and NVIDIA are working together to accelerate innovation through the integration of cloud, AI, and supercomputing technologies. This collaboration aims to improve clinical research and care delivery by leveraging the combined powers of Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA's DGX Cloud and Clara suite of microservices.
The industrial digitalization front will also benefit from this partnership as NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud APIs will be available on Microsoft Azure, facilitating enhanced data interoperability, collaboration, and visualization for developers.
For Microsoft 365, AI inference predictions will be served by NVIDIA GPUs and the NVIDIA Triton Inference Server in Microsoft Copilot, which is designed to improve user productivity by providing contextualized intelligence in real-time.
Furthermore, NVIDIA's NIM inference microservices will soon be available on Azure AI, providing cloud-native microservices for optimized AI deployments. These services are designed to help developers quickly bring performance-optimized production AI applications to market.
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