Microsoft Corp. and NVIDIA announced their collaboration at GTC on Monday, March 18, 2024. These powerful new integrations will benefit the latest NVIDIA generative AI and Omniverse technologies across Microsoft Azure, Azure AI services, Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft 365 generative AI and Omniverse technologies across Microsoft Azure, Azure AI services, Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft 365.
Microsoft CEO and chairman Satya Nadella said, “Together with NVIDIA, we are making the promise of AI real, helping drive new benefits and productivity gains for people and organizations everywhere. 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 breakthrough AI capability.”
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NVIDIA CEO and founder Jensen Huang said, “AI is transforming our daily lives, opening up a world of new opportunities. 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.”
What are the key aspects of this integration?
- Advancement in AI Infrastructure: Microsoft Azure will adopt NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Superchip and advanced NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking to accelerate customer and first-party AI offerings
- Healthcare and Life Sciences Breakthroughs: By integrating cloud, AI, and supercomputing technologies, Microsoft is expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA to transform healthcare and life sciences. Healthcare providers, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, and medical device developers can use the power of Microsoft Azure, along with NVIDIA DGX Cloud and the NVIDIA Clara suite of microservices to innovate clinical research and care delivery with improved efficiency.
- Digitalization of Industries: NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud APIs will be available in Azure Power ecosystem of industrial design and simulation tools
- NVIDIA Triton Inference Server and Microsoft Copilot: Microsoft Copilot is enhanced with features from NVIDIA AI and accelerated computing platforms
- From AI training to AI deployment: NVIDIA microservices are coming to Azure AI.
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The collaboration of these two tech giants, Microsoft and NVIDIA, will change the workings and future of the upcoming AI industry and, in turn, all the related industries.
