AI BriefingGoogle Cloud and NVIDIA Announce General Availability of NVIDIA Vera Rubin Infrastructure
·2026.10.21 19:45
Key point
The A5X platform integrates Vera Rubin NVL72 with Google Cloud Virgo Network to support large-scale reinforcement learning and agentic inference.
Details
- Google Cloud and NVIDIA announced the general availability of A5X instances, which combine NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, ConnectX-9 SuperNICs, and Google Cloud Virgo Network for training, inference, and reinforcement learning.
- Google Cloud plans to scale its Vera Rubin-based infrastructure to as many as 960,000 Rubin GPUs across multiple sites, with initial availability in the US and planned expansion to Europe next month.
- Ineffable Intelligence, founded by AlphaGo creator David Silver, is the first customer using A5X to develop "superlearner" systems that continuously learn from experience through large-scale reinforcement learning.
- WPP demonstrated its creative agent reference architecture on A5X using NVIDIA Nemotron models and OpenShell, finding that workloads typically requiring a multi-node cluster ran on a single A5X instance.
- Google Cloud will offer NVIDIA Confidential Computing at rack scale on bare metal A4X Max instances and make it generally available on G4 VMs powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs.
- The companies are exploring NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS capabilities for Vera Rubin-based infrastructure to optimize performance per watt and expand capacity within data-center power budgets.
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