Google Cloud and NVIDIA joined forces to supercharge generative AI development. The partnership brings cutting-edge NVIDIA AI tech, including the Grace Blackwell platform and NVIDIA H100-powered DGX™ services, to Google Cloud.
Google becomes one the first cloud providers to offer NVIDIA’s next-generation Blackwell GPU to customers. Rivals AWS and Microsoft Azure, also announced a similar partnership with NVIDIA.
‘Excited to deepen our partnership with NVIDIA and bring the breakthrough capabilities of the Blackwell GPU to our teams and Cloud customers.” wrote Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai.
Grace Blackwell 200 (GB200) is a new processor designed specifically for large-scale generative AI workloads, data processing, and high-performance workloads. It has a massive 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth. In addition, it provides an estimated 45 times the inference on trillion parameter models relative to the previous Hopper generation of servers.
Providing developers access to powerful NVIDIA H100 GPUs, the companies also announced support for JAX on NVIDIA GPUs and Vertex AI instances. These are powered by NVIDIA H100 and L4 Tensor Core GPUs.
Google Cloud will integrate NVIDIA NIM inference microservices. This means, developers will have the freedom to train and deploy their creations using their favourite tools and framework.
“The strength of our long-lasting partnership with NVIDIA begins at the hardware level and extends across our portfolio – from state-of-the-art GPU accelerators, to the software ecosystem, to our managed Vertex AI platform,” said Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian.
The partnership is part of their efforts to provide Machine Learning developers with an open and comprehensible platform.
Also focusing on customer empowerment and flexibility, Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA said, “Enterprises are looking for solutions that empower them to take full advantage of generative AI in weeks and months instead of years,”
In his remarks he added, “With expanded infrastructure offerings and new integrations with NVIDIA’s full-stack AI, Google Cloud continues to provide customers with an open, flexible platform to easily scale generative AI applications.”
Google AI Partnerships
Google Cloud has long offered GPU VM instances powered by NVIDIA’s cutting-edge hardware. This new partnership is to further enhance Google’s growth in the AI space.
The announcement comes at a time when Google is tentatively on the verge of another huge AI related partnership. Currently, Apple is considering Gemini as the AI assistant to power iPhones released later this year.
