Google Cloud's Vera Rubin A5X instances hit GA next month, with plans to scale to 960,000 Rubin GPUs
NVIDIA Blog · rss · 2026-10-21
Google Cloud and NVIDIA announced general availability next month for A5X instances combining Vera Rubin NVL72, ConnectX-9 SuperNICs and fourth-gen liquid cooling for agentic inference and RL at scale, with plans to expand to 960,000 Rubin GPUs across sites. First customer Ineffable Intelligence, founded by AlphaGo creator David Silver, is using A5X for large-scale reinforcement learning toward "superlearner" systems. WPP also demoed creative agents on A5X where multi-node workloads ran on a single instance. Google Cloud will additionally offer rack-scale Confidential Computing on GB300 NVL72 bare metal.
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