Microsoft & Nvidia's HUGE AI Announcements (Ignite Supercut)

Microsoft and Nvidia have collaborated to build the most powerful AI supercomputing infrastructure in the cloud, setting a new standard in the industry and envisioning a future where personalized AI assistance is accessible to everyone.

Key insights

• 🚀Azure has built the most powerful AI supercomputing infrastructure in the cloud using Nvidia GPUs, making it the most powerful supercomputer in the public cloud.
• 🚀Microsoft's announcement of their first fully custom in-house AI accelerator Azure Maya, with 105 billion transistors, is a game-changer for Cloud AI workloads.
• 🚀Microsoft and Nvidia have built the world's fastest AI supercomputer in just a few months, surpassing expectations and setting a new standard in the industry.
• 💡"Generative AI is the single most significant platform transition in Computing history."
• 🚀Microsoft envisions a future where there will be a co-pilot for every one and everything you do, from shopping to coding to analyzing to learning to creating.
• 🚀Co-pilot is turning natural language into programming language, helping developers code 55 times faster.
• 🚀Quantum computing will ultimately be the real breakthrough for speeding up all these simulations, empowering us in our careers, communities, and countries.
• 🚀The mission is to make the impossible possible and provide 8 billion people with access to personalized AI assistance. 

Questions to inspire discussion

• What are Microsoft and Nvidia collaborating on?

  —Microsoft and Nvidia are collaborating to build the most powerful AI supercomputing infrastructure in the cloud, setting a new standard in the industry.

• What is the new AI accelerator introduced by Microsoft?

  —Microsoft is introducing their first custom in-house AI accelerator, Azure Maya 100, designed for Cloud AI workloads.

• What is the purpose of the Co-Pilot AI?

  —Co-pilot AI can assist with expense management, HR onboarding, coding, and help sellers close deals by integrating CRM data into customer interactions.

• What are the key advancements in the open source space?

  —Microsoft and Nvidia are making exciting developments in the open source space with slms, including a new models as a service offering in Azure.

• What is the impact of Microsoft's reimagining of core applications with AI?

  —Microsoft is reimagining core applications with AI, bringing the power of mesh to teams for employees to connect in new and meaningful ways using avatars, immersive spaces, and spatial audio.