NVIDIA Vera Rubin Driving Performance Per Watt, Lowest Token Cost for Partners Worldwide

NVIDIA Vera Rubin is here, and it's going gigascale.

Vera Rubin NVL72 production is ramping up with racks running at partners CoreWeave, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Spanning 350+ factory sites in 30 countries, Vera Rubin has the largest, most mature rack-scale supply chain ever assembled to meet customer compute demand.

The Vera Rubin platform is built from chip to grid to deliver the highest performance per watt and the lowest token cost. CoreWeave's first benchmark on DeepSeek-R1 says it all: 10x more throughput per megawatt than Grace Blackwell NVL72 - landing directly on the metric that matters most for power-constrained AI factories.

Advancing Performance With Extreme Codesign What makes this possible is extreme codesign across seven chips and five rack trays - Vera Rubin NVL72, Vera CPU rack, Groq 3 LPX, Spectrum-6 SPX and Vera BlueField-4 STX - all engineered as a single system rather than assembled from separate off-the-shelf products.

The NVIDIA Vera CPU is at its center. It redefines what an AI factory CPU can be. Designed and built for the agent era, its custom Olympus core delivers 2x single-threaded performance, 3x core-to-core bandwidth and 40% lower memory latency versus competing chiplet designs, making it the most efficient single-threaded CPU for the agentic workloads that matter most.

Accelerating AI Factories With Purpose-Built Networking For networking, the platform's sixth-generation NVLink scale-up delivers more than 2x throughput on complex workloads, 3x lower latency and 10x higher packet rates than off-the-shelf Ethernet. For scale-out, Spectrum-X Ethernet combines 102.4T Spectrum-6 switch systems, 1.6T ConnectX-9 SuperNICs, adaptive routing, advanced congestion control, telemetry and open operating system support, enabling 1.6x higher RDMA bandwidth than off-the-shelf Ethernet.

The world's leading AI infrastructure builders - including CoreWeave, Microsoft, SpaceXAI and Tesla - are among the first to bring in Spectrum-6 switches to accelerate their AI factories. NVIDIA Photonics with co-packaged optics for scale-out - the industry's first such switch in volume manufacturing - adds 5x lower power and 10x higher MTBI versus pluggable transceivers, with CoreWeave, Lambda and OCI among the first adopters.

Spectrum-XGS Ethernet extends performance across sites with 1.9x multi-site throughput because gigascale AI isn't a single building problem.

And NVLink Fusion opens the NVIDIA infrastructure platform to third-party XPUs, giving partners a faster path to market on the proven NVLink scale-up stack and ecosystem.

Saving Setup Time, Water NVIDIA's three generations of rack-scale codesign produced a Vera Rubin NVL72 system with no cables, fans or hoses in the tray, cutting compute tray assembly time from hours to one minute.

A 45-degree Celsius liquid cooling inlet temperature design enables chiller-free dry-cooler operation. For new AI factories, this higher-temperature dry cooling along with the closed-loop liquid cooling system saves millions of gallons of water per megawatt annually.

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NVIDIA Vera Rubin Powers Europe's Open Model Era

Vera Rubin is delivering next-generation performance to Europe's AI infrastructure.

It's the foundation for a newly expanded Microsoft and Mistral partnership that brings frontier AI to the region, combining open European models with cloud and customer-controlled environments so governments and regulated industries can adopt it on their own terms.

Underpinning the partnership is a new multibillion-dollar agreement focused on expanding AI infrastructure in Europe. Mistral is adding its GPU capacity, drawing on thousands of the latest NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs to increase AI compute availability for customers and provide a shared platform for training, inference and large-scale deployment.

NVIDIA Vera Rubin is ramping into full production. The rack-scale AI supercomputer unifies seven new chips codesigned as one system, and it will power the next generation of Mistral Compute and Microsoft's European AI infrastructure, drawing on tens of thousands of GPUs.

Europe wants the world's most capable AI, running under its own laws, close to home, and fully within its control. And the bar keeps rising: agentic systems can consume up to 15x more tokens than traditional AI applications, making efficient infrastructure a strategic priority. Meeting that expectation takes more than computing capacity: AI that scales efficiently while satisfying regional requirements for data control, governance, resilience and strategic autonomy.

Vera Rubin provides the computing foundation for Europe's open-model ecosystem. Its full-stack architecture combines accelerated computing, networking and software so models and agents run efficiently from training through production.

Open Models Built for Enterprise AI Together, Microsoft, Mistral and NVIDIA are delivering sovereign-ready AI across public cloud, cloud-connected and fully disconnected private cloud environments - pairing the flexibility of open models with the infrastructure required to operate them at scale.

Mistral Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 are now available in Microsoft Foundry, and Mistral models are integrated into Microsoft Copilot Studio. Through Azure Local and Foundry Local, customers can use the same models, tools and operating patterns across cloud and customer-controlled environments.

AI on Europe's Terms Government agencies can apply AI to sensitive workflows. Healthcare and financial services organizations can deploy within regional requirements. Manufacturers can process data on site for faster decisions. Compared with NVIDIA GB200 NVL72, Vera Rubin NVL72 delivers up to 10x more tokens per megawatt and one-tenth the cost per million tokens, providin

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