Nvidia partners with Google to unveil AI hardware virtual machines By CIOTechOutlook Team

Nvidia partners with Google to unveil AI hardware virtual machines

CIOTechOutlook Team | Thursday, 23 March 2023, 02:57 IST

Chipmaker Nvidia announced its collaboration with Google Cloud at its annual GPU Technologies Conference. Google Cloud will integrate the recently released L4 GPU and Vertex AI to speed up the work of businesses developing a fast growing number of generative AI applications.

Nvidia claims that the L4 platform, which is now accessible via Google Cloud's G2 virtual machines in private preview, is made to improve "AI-powered" video performance.

A general-purpose GPU called L4 is capable of decoding, transcoding, and streaming video.

"We are working with Google Cloud to help ensure that the capabilities they require are easily available and able to help fuel the incredible new tools and applications they will create," Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, said in a statement.

Moreover, the company said that the Nvidia L4 GPU is a universal GPU for every workload, with enhanced AI video capabilities that can deliver 120x more AI-powered video performance than CPUs, combined with 99 per cent better energy efficiency.

"As our customers begin to explore the possibilities of generative AI, we're proud to offer them Nvidia's latest L4 GPU innovation as part of our workload-optimised Compute Engine portfolio," Amin Vahdat, vice president of Systems & Services Infrastructure at Google Cloud, said in a statement.