Nvidia, Google Expand Partnership With Nvidia Blackwell Coming to Google Cloud in 2025 – Investopedia

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Alphabet's (GOOGL) Google announced that Blackwell, Nvidia's (NVDA) latest and most capable artificial intelligence (AI) tech, will be available to cloud customers in early 2025, ahead of theGoogle Cloud Nextkeynote on Tuesday.

The Blackwell platform is coming to Google Cloud in two variations, the HGX B200 and theGB200 NVL72. Nvidia said the HGX B200 is designed for "the most demanding AI," data analytics, and high-performance computing workloads, while theGB200 NVL72 is designed for "next-frontier, massive-scale" model trading and real-time inferencing.

Nvidia unveiled the Blackwell platform, the latest version of its AI-powering tech in March, with analysts calling it the "most ambitious project in Silicon Valley." The chipmaker, which has establisheditself as an early leader of the AI boom, had named Amazon (AMZN) and Microsoft (MSFT) alongside Google as partners set to use the new hardware.

Google also announced an initiative to help startups accelerate the creation of generative AI (genAI) applications and services in collaboration with Nvidia. The two companies teamed up to offer some members of Nvidia Inception, the chipmaker's startup program, up to $350,000 of Google Cloud credits for startups focusing on AI.

Shares of Google parent Alphabet were up 0.8% at $156.20 as of 11:15 a.m. ET Tuesday and have gained close to 13% year to date. While Nvidia shares were down 3% at $843.68 in early trading Tuesday, they have surged 75% since the start of the year.

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