NVIDIA Announces AI Partnerships With Google, Microsoft, Adobe & Oracle

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang on Wednesday announced sweeping partnerships with Google, Microsoft, Oracle and a range of leading businesses that bring new AI, simulation and collaboration capabilities to every industry.

The company announced NVIDIA DGX Cloud™, an AI supercomputing service that gives enterprises immediate access to the infrastructure and software needed to train advanced models for generative AI and other groundbreaking applications.

To host DGX Cloud infrastructure NVIDIA has partnered with leading cloud service providers, starting with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Its OCI RDMA Supercluster provides a purpose-built RDMA network, bare metal compute and high performance local and block storage that can scale to superclusters of over 32,000 GPUs.

Microsoft Azure is expected to begin hosting DGX Cloud next quarter and the service will soon expand to Google Cloud too.

NVIDIA and Microsoft are also partnering to connect millions of Microsoft 365 and Azure users to a platform for building and operating hyper-realistic virtual worlds. This is expected to find application in industrial metaverse.

Both companies are bringing together their productivity and 3D collaboration platforms by connecting Microsoft 365 applications — such as Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint — with NVIDIA Omniverse™, a platform for building and operating 3D industrial metaverse applications.  

In a statement, Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO, Microsoft, said, “Together with NVIDIA, we're focused on both building out services that bridge the digital and physical worlds to automate, simulate and predict every business process, and bringing the most powerful AI supercomputer to customers globally.”

Meanwhile, NVIDIA announced it is teaming with Google Cloud to accelerate the work of companies creating a rapidly expanding number of generative AI applications. The collaboration is expected to provide developers access to the latest, state-of-the-art technology available to help them get new applications up and running quickly and cost-efficiently. 

This collaboration will include NVIDIA’s new inference platform for generative AI based on the just-announced L4 GPU — a universal GPU for virtually any workload, with enhanced AI video capabilities that can deliver 120-times more AI-powered video performance than CPUs, combined with 99 per cent better energy efficiency.

“Generative AI represents a new era of computing — one that demands the speed, scalability and reliability we provide on Google Cloud,” said Amin Vahdat, vice president of Systems & Services Infrastructure at Google Cloud. “As our customers begin to explore the possibilities of Gen AI, we’re proud to offer them NVIDIA’s latest L4 GPU innovation as part of our workload-optimized Compute Engine portfolio.” 

Adobe and NVIDIA also announced a new partnership to unlock the power of generative AI to further advance creative workflows. Adobe and NVIDIA will co-develop a new generation of advanced generative AI models with a focus on deep integration into applications the world’s leading creators and marketers use.

Some of these models will be jointly developed and brought to market through Adobe’s Creative Cloud flagship products like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Adobe After Effects, as well as through the new NVIDIA Picasso cloud service for broad reach to third-party developers. Priorities of the partnership include supporting commercial viability of the new technology and ensuring content transparency and Content Credentials powered by Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative.