CoreWeave, the AI Hyperscaler™, has announced its plans to deliver one of the first NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip-enabled AI supercomputers to IBM. This cutting-edge system, equipped with NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems and interconnected via NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, marks a significant step in AI innovation. IBM will harness CoreWeave’s high-performance, reliable, and resilient cloud platform to train the next generation of Granite models. These enterprise-ready, open-source AI models offer state-of-the-art performance relative to model size while prioritizing safety, speed, and cost-efficiency for enterprise applications.
“We are thrilled to partner with IBM, a long-time pioneer of innovative technology solutions, to push the boundaries of artificial intelligence,” said Michael Intrator, CoreWeave CEO and co-founder. “This collaboration is a testament to CoreWeave’s ability to deliver some of the world’s most advanced AI cloud solutions and will combine our strengths in engineering and product development. We look forward to deepening our relationship with IBM to drive transformative innovation together.”
CoreWeave’s cloud platform is specifically designed to provide industry-leading performance, reliability, and resilience, coupled with enterprise-grade security. Its proprietary software and services are engineered to manage the most complex AI infrastructures at scale, earning the trust of top AI labs and enterprises worldwide.
This groundbreaking supercomputer will integrate IBM Storage Scale System with NVMe flash technology, delivering unparalleled storage performance tailored for AI, data analytics, and other demanding workloads. Additionally, CoreWeave customers will gain access to IBM’s Storage platform within CoreWeave’s dedicated environments and AI cloud platform, enhancing the versatility and scalability of their AI initiatives.
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“We are excited to work with CoreWeave on state-of-the-art AI hardware and software to unlock new capabilities for future generations of IBM Granite models. CoreWeave’s cutting-edge platform can augment IBM’s organic capabilities to help build advanced, performant, and cost-efficient models for powering enterprise AI applications and agents. In turn, IBM Storage is enabling a new world of possibilities for AI by offering IBM Storage Scale System to enhance CoreWeave‘s comprehensive suite of developer-focused AI capabilities. And finally, as part of this collaboration, we will leverage this supercomputer to advance open technologies such as Kubernetes that will power AI computing in a hybrid cloud environment,” said Sriram Raghavan, VP of AI at IBM Research.
This partnership underscores the commitment of both companies to driving innovation in artificial intelligence, offering businesses advanced tools to unlock the potential of AI in enterprise environments.
