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Nvidia and SoftBank have teamed up to launch Japan’s most powerful AI supercomputer using Nvidia’s new Grace Blackwell platform.

Announcement at Nvidia’s AI Summit in Tokyo on Wednesday, collaboration presents SoftBank being the first to deploy Nvidia’s DGX B200 systems to build the DGX SuperPOD, leveraging Nvidia AI Enterprise software and Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. The system aims to support generative AI initiatives for businesses, universities and researchers.

Nvidiawho recently surpassed Apple as the world’s most valuable company, is also planning a new AI and 5G network pilot with Softbank. Known as AI-RAN, capable of handling telecom and AI workloads simultaneously, the network demonstrated effective 5G performance when running AI tasks in trials.

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