Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on ‘another big step’ in company’s AI infrastructure, shares photo: ‘We are the first cloud company to…’

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has announced that his company has become the first cloud provider in the world to install Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 system for validation. This is seen as a significant milestone in the global race to build the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the Vera Rubin NVL72 AI supercomputer at CES, with the company promising up to 5x greater inference performance and 10x lower cost per token than Blackwell – its top-tier AI chip currently available in the market.

Nadella shared the news alongside a photo of the system. “We’re the first cloud to bring up an NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 system for validation, another big step in building the next generation of AI infrastructure with NVIDIA,” he said.