AWS and IBM each partner with Nvidia in AI push

Both Amazon Web Services and IBM have each announced they are working with Nvidia to further drive the adoption of AI.

AWS has announced that the Nvidia Blackwell GPU platform will be coming to its cloud platform. The company said it will offer the GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip and B100 Tensor Core GPUs.

AWS will offer the Blackwell platform, featuring GB200 NVL72, with 72 Blackwell GPUs and 36 Grace CPUs interconnected by fifth-generation NVLink. The cloud provider also plans to offer EC2 instances featuring the new B100 GPUs deployed in EC2 UltraClusters. GB200s will also be available on Nvidia’s DGX Cloud within AWS.

“The deep collaboration between our two organisations goes back more than 13 years, when together we launched the world’s first GPU cloud instance on AWS, and today we offer the widest range of NVIDIA GPU solutions for customers,”  AWS CEO Adam Slipsky stated.

“Nvidia’s next-generation Grace Blackwell processor marks a significant step forward in generative AI and GPU computing. When combined with AWS’s powerful Elastic Fabric Adapter Networking, Amazon EC2 UltraClusters’ hyper-scale clustering, and our unique Nitro system’s advanced virtualisation and security capabilities, we make it possible for customers to build and run multi-trillion parameter large language models faster, at massive scale, and more securely than anywhere else.”

IBM Consulting partners with Nvidia

Meanwhile, IBM Consulting said it will be making available a swarm of Nvidia AI Enterprise software, including Nvidia NIM microservices and Nvidia Moniverse, to help customers – particularly those in the public, banking, and industrial sectors – accelerate the adoption of generative AI.

“Generative AI, robotics and digital twins are transformative technologies, and enterprise-grade software and support are key to deploying them in production,” said John Fanelli, Nvidia Enterprise Software Vice President.

“This collaboration with IBM Consulting will help businesses across industries unlock new opportunities with AI and simulation using full-stack software and accelerated computing.”

Under the partnership, IBM anticipates future projects will include leveraging its AI services platform, IBM Consulting Advantage, for Nvidia’s technology stack.

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