- Microsoft Azure to adopt NVIDIA Grace Blackwell
Superchip to accelerate customer and first-party AI
offerings
- NVIDIA DGX Cloud's native Integration with Microsoft Fabric
to streamline custom AI model development with customer's own
data
- NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud APIs first on Azure Power ecosystem
of industrial design and simulation tools
- Microsoft Copilot enhanced with NVIDIA AI and
accelerated computing platforms
- New NVIDIA generative AI Microservices for enterprise,
developer and healthcare applications coming to Microsoft Azure
AI
REDMOND,
Wash. and SAN JOSE,
Calif., March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- At GTC
on Monday, Microsoft Corp. and NVIDIA expanded their longstanding
collaboration with powerful new integrations that leverage the
latest NVIDIA generative AI and Omniverse™ technologies across
Microsoft Azure, Azure AI services, Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft
365.
"Together with NVIDIA, we are making the promise of AI real,
helping drive new benefits and productivity gains for people and
organizations everywhere," said Satya
Nadella, chairman and CEO, Microsoft. "From bringing the
GB200 Grace Blackwell processor to
Azure, to new integrations between DGX Cloud and Microsoft Fabric,
the announcements we are making today will ensure customers have
the most comprehensive platforms and tools across every layer of
the Copilot stack, from silicon to software, to build their own
breakthrough AI capability."
"AI is transforming our daily lives — opening up a world of new
opportunities," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.
"Through our collaboration with Microsoft, we're building a future
that unlocks the promise of AI for customers, helping them deliver
innovative solutions to the world."
Advancing AI infrastructure
Microsoft will be one of the first organizations to bring the
power of NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB200 and advanced NVIDIA
Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking to Azure, deliver cutting-edge
trillion-parameter foundation models for natural language
processing, computer vision, speech recognition and more.
Microsoft is also announcing the general availability of its
Azure NC H100 v5 VM virtual machine (VM) based on the NVIDIA H100
NVL platform. Designed for midrange training and inferencing, the
NC series of virtual machines offers customers two classes of VMs
from one to two NVIDIA H100 94GB PCIe Tensor Core GPUs and supports
NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) technology, which allows customers
to partition each GPU into up to seven instances, providing
flexibility and scalability for diverse AI workloads.
Healthcare and life sciences breakthroughs
Microsoft is expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA to
transform healthcare and life sciences through the integration of
cloud, AI and supercomputing technologies. By harnessing the power
of Microsoft Azure alongside NVIDIA DGX™ Cloud and the NVIDIA
Clara™ suite of microservices, healthcare providers, pharmaceutical
and biotechnology companies, and medical device developers will
soon be able to innovate rapidly across clinical research and care
delivery with improved efficiency.
Industry leaders such as Sanofi and the Broad Institute of
MIT and Harvard, industry ISVs such as Flywheel and SOPHiA
GENETICS, academic medical centers like the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and
Public Health, and health systems like Mass General Brigham are
already leveraging cloud computing and AI to drive transformative
changes in healthcare and to enhance patient care.
Industrial digitalization
NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud APIs will be available first on
Microsoft Azure later this year, enabling developers to bring
increased data interoperability collaboration, and physics-based
visualization to existing software applications. At NVIDIA GTC,
Microsoft is demonstrating a preview of what is possible using
Omniverse Cloud APIs on Microsoft Azure. Using an interactive 3D
viewer in Microsoft Power BI, factory operators can see real-time
factory data overlaid on a 3D digital twin of their facility to
gain new insights that can speed up production.
NVIDIA Triton Inference Server and Microsoft Copilot
NVIDIA GPUs and NVIDIA Triton Inference Server™ help serve AI
inference predictions in Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365.
Copilot for Microsoft 365, soon available as a dedicated physical
keyboard key on Windows 11 PCs, combines the power of large
language models with proprietary enterprise data to deliver
real-time contextualized intelligence, enabling users to enhance
their creativity, productivity and skills.
From AI training to AI deployment
NVIDIA NIM™ inference microservices are coming to Azure AI
to turbocharge AI deployments. Part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise
software platform, also available on the Azure Marketplace, NIM
provides cloud-native microservices for optimized inference on more
than two dozen popular foundation models, including NVIDIA-built
models that users can experience at ai.nvidia.com. For deployment,
the microservices deliver prebuilt, run-anywhere containers powered
by NVIDIA AI Enterprise inference software — including Triton
Inference Server, TensorRT™ and TensorRT-LLM — to help developers
speed time to market of performance-optimized production AI
applications.
About NVIDIA
Since its founding in 1993, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a
pioneer in accelerated computing. The company's invention of the
GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined
computer graphics, ignited the era of modern AI and is fueling
industrial digitalization across markets. NVIDIA is now a
full-stack computing infrastructure company with data-center-scale
offerings that are reshaping industry. More information at
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
About Microsoft
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) enables digital
transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an
intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every
organization on the planet to achieve more.
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impact of NVIDIA's collaboration with Microsoft, and the features
and availability of its services and offerings; AI transforming our
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