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Microsoft Azure has deployed what it calls the world's first at-scale production cluster built on NVIDIA's GB300 "Blackwell Ultra" NVL72 architecture, linking more than 4,600 Blackwell Ultra GPUs into a tightly coupled system designed to accelerate training and inference of...

Microsoft Azure has gone public with what it calls the industry’s first production-scale NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 supercomputing cluster—an NDv6 GB300 VM family that stitches more than 4,600 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs into a single, rack-first fabric built on NVIDIA’s Quantum‑X800 InfiniBand and...

Microsoft Azure’s latest infrastructure move — bringing a production-scale NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 cluster online to support OpenAI workloads — is a watershed moment in cloud AI engineering, delivering rack‑scale, liquid‑cooled supercomputing designed for the new class of reasoning and multimodal...

Microsoft Azure’s new NDv6 GB300 VM series has brought the industry’s first production-scale cluster of NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems online for OpenAI, stitching together more than 4,600 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs with NVIDIA Quantum‑X800 InfiniBand to create a single, supercomputer‑scale...

Microsoft’s recent market ascent isn’t just another tech rally — it’s the result of a deliberate playbook that converts decades of enterprise lock‑in into recurring, high‑margin AI revenue, and that strategy could leave Microsoft standing when the current AI exuberance fades. Background /...