Microsoft’s Azure cloud has brought a new level of scale to public‑cloud AI infrastructure by deploying a production cluster built on NVIDIA’s latest GB300 “Blackwell Ultra” NVL72 rack systems and exposing that capacity as the ND GB300 v6 virtual machine family for reasoning, agentic, and...
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 public pledge to “have mainly Microsoft silicon in the data center” is not rhetoric — it’s a strategic pivot with clear technical, economic, and competitive consequences for Azure customers, hardware partners, and the AI industry at large. Kevin Scott, Microsoft’s CTO, set the tone...