Presented by Microsoft and NVIDIA
Together, Microsoft and NVIDIA have powered technological transformation for decades. As AI rapidly reshapes the business landscape, a new way to work has emerged in which systems are AI-operated and human-led. The organizations leading this evolution are “Frontier Firms,” companies structured around on-tap intelligence and powered by human-AI collaboration. These new Frontier Firms are already leveraging today’s most advanced technologies to achieve unprecedented agility, scale, and value.
Microsoft and NVIDIA have pioneered the solutions empowering this evolution. With Microsoft Azure for a seamless, secure, and scalable cloud platform and NVIDIA hardware and software for data analytics and AI, our partnership is helping to bridge digital and physical worlds, advance AI infrastructure, drive agentic transformation, and power next-generation AI agents supported by a broad ecosystem of world-class AI partners.
For decision-makers, infrastructure leaders, startups, developers, and technical architects, Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA deliver a unified approach to accelerating and scaling AI initiatives, no matter your industry. Our partnership is rapidly evolving and expanding to help you achieve your biggest goals. Here are four foundational ways we’re working together right now to deliver practical, powerful, real-world AI solutions.
1. Transforming industrial AI with NVIDIA Omniverse on Microsoft Azure
Industrial AI is reshaping the entire manufacturing value chain from design and engineering to customer experiences. Manufacturers can enable next-gen industrial digital twins, simulation, and robotics powered by physical AI at scale by leveraging Azure’s cloud platform and IoT capabilities with NVIDIA 3D simulation and AI solutions. Deep integrations between Azure and NVIDIA Omniverse enable data to flow seamlessly and securely between solutions.
Our partnership in this area allows immense flexibility and scale for users. AI solutions are built using open standards like OpenUSD and OPC-UA, so organizations can easily customize and integrate AI solutions for interoperability, avoiding challenges around lock-in and driving flexibility. Additionally, NVIDIA Omniverse developments are made with Azure optimization in mind, so even complex Omniverse environments can be rolled out repeatably on Azure, creating a streamlined path for industrial AI from deployment to scale.
2. Delivering the most powerful enterprise AI platform with Microsoft Foundry and NVIDIA NIMs
Generative AI and AI agents have become pivotal to enterprise transformation strategy. Microsoft and NVIDIA are focused on delivering customers the most comprehensive and powerful ecosystem for developing and deploying AI applications. Our goal is to create and deliver a unified AI platform offering, and we have several initiatives underway to that end.
Microsoft Foundry is a unified, interoperable AI platform built on Azure that enables developers to build, deploy, and manage AI applications faster and smarter, without having to worry about security and governance. Within Microsoft Foundry are more than 11,000 Foundry models—curated, enterprise-ready AI models from the world’s top AI providers.
Combining Microsoft’s AI application development foundation—AI models, orchestration tools, and lifecycle management—with NVIDIA’s modular AI services in the form of AI enterprise software and NVIDIA Inference Microservices (NIMs), our partnership accelerates solution deployment unlike any other platform or vendor. Integration of NVIDIA NIMs for AI services into the Azure AI platform allows customers to leverage ready-made AI building blocks in Azure, speeding up development and ensuring top performance on Azure’s GPU infrastructure for generative and agentic AI.
3. Driving cloud-enabled AI with GPU infrastructure + NVIDIA DGX Cloud
Azure is one of the top cloud platforms for AI workloads, and NVIDIA GPUs are the gold standard for training and running AI models. Leveraging the full-stack NVIDIA Accelerated Computing platform within Microsoft Azure for agentic and physical AI, enterprises across industries are actively enhancing productivity, transforming operations, and elevating customer experiences. By leveraging solutions like NVIDIA DGX Cloud on Azure and Run:ai on Azure, enterprises can take advantage of the best of both worlds to enable high-performance AI workloads and scalability with speed and cost efficiency built in.
NVIDIA DGX Cloud on Azure is a high-performance AI training platform that delivers co-engineered NVIDIA Accelerated Computing clusters optimized for Azure. It offers flexible term lengths and access to NVIDIA support, letting enterprises run NVIDIA-managed GPUs on Azure infrastructure for high-performance AI.
In addition, NVIDIA Run:ai on Azure helps organizations run AI workloads more efficiently on Azure. NVIDIA Run:ai enables dynamic, policy-based scheduling of GPU resources across teams and workloads. Now, NVIDIA Run:ai integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Azure’s GPU-accelerated VM families, helping enterprises easily optimize performance and simplify AI workload management.
4. Enabling end-to-end agentic AI with a robust developer ecosystem
Building AI agents has traditionally been a slow and complex process. Together, Microsoft and NVIDIA drastically lower barriers to building AI agents, bringing developers and startups a rich ecosystem of resources including technical enablement, community engagement, and go-to-market support.
Together, we’re creating an end-to-end framework for frontier agentic transformation with integrations not only between Azure and NVIDIA, but also with third-party AI providers. Our co-innovation with global AI leaders creates a robust partner network that enables developers to take agentic and next-gen AI applications all the way from R&D to autonomy.
We’re also jointly investing in technical enablement through expanded documentation, hands-on training programs, and programs that enable developers with low-cost experimentation with NVIDIA NIMs.
Learn more at NVIDIA GTC 2026
Microsoft is proud to be a sponsor at this year’s most anticipated AI conference, NVIDIA GTC, happening March 16–19 in San Jose, CA. The Microsoft team will be on-site during the conference with extensive opportunities for you to get to know our solutions. Meet up with our team at booth 521, hear from the experts in Microsoft-led talks and panel sessions, participate in hands-on demos and labs, and discover the breakthrough innovations transforming your industry. We would love to talk with you about how your organization can accelerate transformation with AI solutions from Microsoft and NVIDIA.
Read the blog to explore the full Microsoft schedule of events at NVIDIA GTC 2026.
Fernando Aznar Cornejo is Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft.
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