Google and Nvidia Partner To Create Supercharged AI Infrastructure

Google and Nvidia are closing ranks. On Tuesday the chipmaker announced a partnership with Google Cloud to develop new AI infrastructure for customers to build and operate generative AI and data science tools.

The tech giants will work together to support other companies that need a lot of computing power to develop new machine learning products, Nvidia said. The partnership was announced at Google Cloud Next, Google’s cloud division’s annual conference and product showcase.

“We’re at an inflection point where accelerated computing and generative AI have come together to speed innovation at an unprecedented pace,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a company blog post.

“Our expanded collaboration with Google Cloud will help developers accelerate their work with infrastructure, software and services that supercharge energy efficiency and reduce costs,” Huang wrote.

Nvidia and Google Cloud have collaborated for the past two years — now that collaboration is extending to make new tools for corporate customers that require more cloud services and data storage.

Google said PaxML, its large language model that underpins its chatbot Bard, is now optimized to run with Nvidia hardware, specifically the chipmaker’s powerful H100 chips. The $40,000-a-pop chips power Google’s servers.

“Google Cloud has a long history of innovating in AI to foster and speed innovation for our customers,” Thomas Kurian, Google Cloud’s CEO said in a statement.

“Many of Google’s products are built and served on Nvidia GPUs, and many of our customers are seeking out Nvidia accelerated computing to power efficient development of LLMs to advance generative AI.”

Nvidia’s chips now power Google Cloud’s virtual machines and VertexAI, which houses some of Google’s most advanced machine learning models.

With the partnership, Nvidia's AI Enterprise and supercomputing software are now available to the latter’s Cloud Marketplace.