Microsoft combines accelerated computing with cloud scale engineering to bring advanced AI capabilities to our customers. For years, we\u2019ve worked with NVIDIA to integrate hardware, software and infrastructure to power many of today\u2019s most important AI breakthroughs.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s new at NVIDIA GTC<\/p>\n
Expanded Microsoft Foundry capabilities to build, deploy and operate production-ready AI agents on NVIDIA accelerators and open NVIDIA Nemotron models
\nNew Azure AI infrastructure optimized for inference-heavy, reasoning-based workloads, including the first hyperscale cloud to power on next-generation NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems
\nDeeper integration across Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft Fabric and NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and open frameworks to support Physical AI systems from simulation to real\u2011world operations<\/p>\n
From Frontier models to production-ready agents<\/p>\n
At the foundation of this system is Microsoft Foundry: serving as the operating system for building, deploying and operating AI at enterprise scale. Foundry builds on Azure to bring together models, tools, data and observability into a single system designed for production agents. Today we\u2019re expanding those capabilities across Foundry Agent Service and NVIDIA Nemotron models.<\/p>\n
The next-generation Foundry Agent Service and Observability in Foundry Control Plane<\/a> are now generally available, enabling organizations to build and operate AI agents at production scale. Foundry Agent Service allows teams to quickly develop agents that reason, plan and act across tools, data and workflows. Once created, Foundry Control Plane provides the developer end-to-end visibility into agent behavior, unlocking both developer productivity as well as enterprise trust. Companies such as Corvus Energy<\/a> are already using Foundry to replace manual inspection workflows with agent-driven operational intelligence across their global fleet.<\/p>\n We are further simplifying the path from prototype to production with the availability of Voice Live API integration with Foundry Agent Service<\/a>, in public preview, which enables developers to build voice-first, multimodal, real-time agentic experiences. This pairs with the general availability of a refreshed Microsoft Foundry portal and expanded integrations for Palo Alto Networks\u2019 Prisma AIRS and Zenity, delivering deeper builder experiences and runtime security across the entire agent lifecycle.<\/p>\n NVIDIA Nemotron models are also now available through Microsoft Foundry<\/a>, joining the widest selection of models on any cloud, including the latest reasoning, frontier and open models. This bolsters our recent partnership announcement bringing Fireworks AI to Microsoft Foundry<\/a>, enabling customers to fine-tune open-weight models like NVIDIA Nemotron into low-latency assets that can be distributed to the edge.<\/p>\n Scaling AI infrastructure for the world\u2019s most demanding workloads<\/p>\n Inference AI workloads are reshaping cost, performance and system design requirements. To operationalize agentic AI at scale, customers need purpose-built infrastructure for inference\u2011heavy, reasoning\u2011based workloads that can be deployed and operated consistently across global and regulated environments.<\/p>\n Microsoft\u2019s AI infrastructure approach\u00a0is engineered to seamlessly bring next-generation NVIDIA systems into Azure datacenters that are designed for power, cooling networking and rapid generational upgrades. This allows our customers to move with speed and agility and stay at the leading edge from generation to generation<\/a>.<\/p>\n In less than a year, we\u2019ve deployed hundreds of thousands of liquid-cooled Grace Blackwell GPUs across our global datacenter footprint, and now we are excited to be the first hyperscale cloud to power on NVIDIA\u2019s newest Vera Rubin NVL72 in our labs<\/a>.\u00a0Over the next few months, Vera Rubin NVL72 will be rolled out into our modern, liquid-cooled Azure datacenters.<\/p>\n Microsoft\u2019s infrastructure innovation with NVIDIA also extends to sovereign and regulated environments to give customers control of both where AI runs and how it evolves over time. Recently, we announced Foundry Local support for modern infrastructure and large AI models<\/a>, and today we now have initial support for NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform on Azure Local<\/a>, extending accelerated AI capabilities to customer-controlled environments. This approach allows organizations to plan for next-generation AI workloads, including reasoning-based and agentic systems, while maintaining Azure-consistent operations, governance and security through our unified software layer with Azure Arc and Foundry Local.<\/p>\n YouTube Video<\/p>\n Click here to load media<\/p>\n Bringing AI into the physical world<\/p>\n As AI moves beyond digital experiences, Microsoft and NVIDIA are collaborating to support the next wave of Physical AI. At GTC, this work centers on NVIDIA Physical AI Data Factory Blueprint, with Microsoft Foundry as the platform for hosting and operating Physical AI systems on Azure at cloud scale.<\/p>\n By integrating this blueprint with Azure services as part of a Physical AI Toolchain, Microsoft enables developers to build, train and operate physical AI and robotics workflows that connect physical assets, simulation and cloud training environments into repeatable, enterprise-grade pipelines. To support, we are introducing a public Azure Physical AI Toolchain GitHub repository<\/a> integrated with the Nvidia Physical AI Data Factory and with core Azure services.<\/p>\n To further the impact of AI in real\u2011world, physical environments, today Microsoft and NVIDIA are deepening the integration between Microsoft Fabric and NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, connecting live operational data with physically accurate digital twins and simulation. This allows organizations to see what\u2019s happening across their physical systems, understand it in real time and use AI to decide what to do next. In practice, customers in manufacturing and operations and beyond are using this approach to move beyond dashboards and alerts to coordinated, AI\u2011driven action across machines, facilities and workflows.<\/p>\n From innovation to impact<\/p>\n Microsoft is delivering reliable, production\u2011scale AI by bringing together its global AI infrastructure, platforms and real\u2011world systems with the latest innovation from NVIDIA. For customers, this means the ability to operate intelligence continuously, running inference-heavy, reasoning-based and physical AI workloads with the performance, security and governance required for real businesses and regulated industries.<\/p>\n Whether powering always-on agents, scaling next-generation AI infrastructure or deploying intelligent systems in factories, energy facilities and sovereign environments, Microsoft and Nvidia are helping customers move faster from insight to action.<\/p>\n Yina Arenas leads product strategy and execution for Microsoft Foundry, overseeing the end\u2013to\u2013end AI product portfolio, infrastructure, developer\u00a0experiences\u00a0and foundation model integration across OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral,\u00a0DeepSeek\u00a0and others. She delivers an enterprise ready, production grade AI platform trusted by global customers for secure,\u00a0reliable and scalable AI.<\/p>\n