Google Cloud and NVIDIA launching Vera Rubin infrastructure for AI workloads signals major AI hardware partnership.
Context
What happened: Google Cloud and NVIDIA launched Vera Rubin-based A5X instances for AI workloads, with general availability next month and planned expansion to Europe.
Key numbers: GA next month; expansion to Europe planned; scale to as many as 960,000 Rubin GPUs across multiple sites.
Why it matters: Ineffable Intelligence, founded by AlphaGo creator David Silver, was the first customer, and WPP ran workloads that typically needed a multi-node cluster on a single A5X instance.