Nvidia and Oracle announce expanded cloud AI partnership (venturebeat.com)

Nvidia and Oracle have announced an expanded, multiyear partnership to accelerate AI adoption by integrating Nvidia’s full accelerated computing stack into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This collaboration significantly boosts OCI’s GPU capacity with tens of thousands of Nvidia A100 and the upcoming H100 GPUs, alongside bare-metal servers, high-speed networking, and storage optimized for AI training and deep learning workloads. The partnership aims to deliver scalable, cloud-first AI development and deployment options across industries like healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, and finance. Technically, Oracle will offer Nvidia AI Enterprise on OCI, providing a secure and scalable platform for end-to-end AI workflows. Early access to Nvidia RAPIDS acceleration on OCI’s fully managed Apache Spark service highlights a focus on accelerating data processing—a critical cloud workload. Additionally, OCI Data Science will support Nvidia A100 GPUs in bare-metal shapes, enhancing capabilities for notebook sessions, job execution, and model deployment. The collaboration also targets healthcare innovation with Nvidia Clara for AI-driven medical imaging and drug discovery, integrated into Oracle’s Cerner healthcare solutions. This expanded partnership exemplifies the emerging AI cloud narrative, blending Nvidia’s cutting-edge GPU hardware and software with Oracle’s cloud infrastructure and services to meet the growing demands of large-scale AI model training and real-time inferencing. As enterprises increasingly adopt AI, this alliance creates a robust, AI-optimized cloud environment designed to power advanced machine learning applications and accelerate enterprise AI transformation.