Nvidia and Alphabet join forces on AI

Nvidia and Alphabet have announced a series of joint AI initiatives, further deepening their long-standing relationship.

According to the pair, Alphabetโ€™s Google Cloud will among the first to adopt the Nvidia GB300 NVL72 rack-scale solution and Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU to power its research and AI production efforts.

Meanwhile, Nvidia will be Alphabetโ€™s first industry partner and external user to adopt SynthID, a Google DeepMind AI technology that embeds digital watermarks directly into AI-generated images, audio, text, or video, with the aim to โ€œbuild trust in generative AI through content transparencyโ€.

โ€œAlphabet and Nvidia have a longstanding partnership that extends from building AI infrastructure and software to advancing the use of AI in the largest industries,โ€ Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said.

 โ€œItโ€™s a great joy to see Google and Nvidia researchers and engineers collaborate to solve incredible challenges, from drug discovery to robotics.โ€

The partnership also includes the optimisation of Googleโ€™s open models, Gemma, to run on Nvidia GPUs, which will be powered by Nvidiaโ€™s AI platform.

Robotics, AI, Nvidia and Alphabet

In robotics, Intrinsic, an Alphabet company focused on adaptive AI, is working with Nvidia to develop intuitive developer workflows for a universal robot grasping capabilities, reducing application development complexities and improving flexibility.

Concurrently, Nvidia and Google DeepMind announced they are partnering with Disney Research to develop Newton, dubbed as โ€œan open-source physics engineโ€ that will feature the Nvidia Warp framework that is compatible with MuJoCo.

โ€œPowered by Newton, MuJoCo will accelerate robotics machine learning workloads by more than 70x compared with MuJoCoโ€™s existing GPU-accelerated simulator, MJX,โ€ Nvidia said.

The companies touted they are also tackling โ€œreal-world challengesโ€ through Isomorphic Labs and Tapestry, Xโ€™s moonshot for the electric grid. Using AI, Isomorphic Labs aims to continue drug discovery processes, while Tapestry exploring methods to increase the speed and accuracy of electric grid simulations.

โ€œIโ€™m proud of our ongoing and deep partnership with Nvidia, which spans the early days of Android and our cutting-edge AI collaborations across Alphabet,โ€ said Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai.

โ€œIโ€™m really excited about the next phase of our partnership as we work together on agentic AI, robotics and bringing the benefits of AI to more people around the world.โ€

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Aimee Chanthadavong
Aimee Chanthadavong

Aimee Chanthadavong has been a journalist, editor and content producer for more than a decade. During that time she's covered enterprise technology for premium websites such as ZDNet and InnovationAus as well as food and travel for Broadsheet and SBS.