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Microsoft and NVIDIA used the GTC 2026 stage to stage a clear inflection: Azure has moved from GPU instance upgrades to full rack‑scale, liquid‑cooled “AI factories,” and Microsoft presents its first production deployment of NVIDIA’s GB300 NVL72 Blackwell Ultra racks as a serviceable...

Microsoft Azure’s move to validate NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin NVL72 racks marks a clear inflection point in cloud infrastructure: the industry is no longer incrementally scaling GPUs — it’s re-architecting entire data-centers around rack-scale, liquid-cooled, NVLink‑fabric accelerators to support the...

Microsoft Azure has validated and readied its datacenters to run NVIDIA’s new Vera Rubin NVL72 rack‑scale AI system, positioning Azure as the first public cloud to claim production validation of the GB300 “Blackwell Ultra” NVL72 platform — a move that crystallizes the shift from server‑level GPU...

Microsoft Azure saying it has validated and readied its datacenters for NVIDIA’s new Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale AI system marks a major inflection point: hyperscalers are no longer preparing for incremental GPU upgrades — they are rearchitecting entire racks, networks, and operations to host...

NVIDIA’s Rubin platform — unveiled at CES 2026 — is being pitched as a generational leap in rack‑scale AI computing: a six‑chip, tightly co‑designed system that promises dramatically lower inference token costs, exaflops‑scale rack throughput, and a reimagined storage layer for long‑context...

Microsoft is pitching CES 2026 as the moment where NVIDIA’s next-generation Vera Rubin platform and Azure’s long-range datacenter planning intersect — arguing that years of Fairwater-style engineering, rack-first design, and orchestration work mean Rubin racks can be dropped into Azure...

Microsoft’s latest public disclosure peels back the curtain on the infrastructure powering its new Azure AI “superfactory” — a purpose-built, rack-first datacenter design called Fairwater that stitches dense GPU racks into a planet-scale compute fabric optimized for frontier AI training and...

Latham & Watkins told its more than 400 first‑year associates in a mandatory two‑day “AI Academy” that artificial intelligence is not optional—it's now part of standard legal practice, and mastery of the tools will be a core expectation of modern lawyering. Background The training weekend in...

Microsoft’s Azure team has pushed a single rack‑scale system to an industry record of roughly 1.1 million tokens per second, using ND_GB300_v6 virtual machines built on NVIDIA’s GB300 (Blackwell Ultra) NVL72 rack — a headline milestone that proves rack‑scale inference at industrial throughput is...

Microsoft’s new ND GB300 v6 virtual machines have cracked a milestone that changes the practical limits of public‑cloud AI inference: one NVL72 rack of Blackwell Ultra GPUs sustained an aggregated throughput of roughly 1.1 million tokens per second, a result validated by an independent benchmark...

Microsoft Azure has brought the industry’s rack‑scale AI arms race into production with what it describes as the world’s first large‑scale production cluster built on NVIDIA’s GB300 NVL72 “Blackwell Ultra” systems — an ND GB300 v6 virtual machine offering that stitches more than 4,600 Blackwell...

Microsoft Azure has quietly deployed what both vendors call the world’s first production-scale GB300 NVL72 supercomputing cluster, linking more than 4,600 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs into a single, rack-first fabric intended to accelerate reasoning-class inference and large-model workloads for...

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...