Google Cloud and NVIDIA make Vera Rubin infrastructure generally available
What happened
On 21 October 2026, NVIDIA's official blog announced that Google Cloud and NVIDIA have made Vera Rubin-based infrastructure generally available. According to the report, the related A5X instances are now generally available, will open next month and are planned to expand to Europe. A5X combines NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, ConnectX-9 SuperNICs, Google Cloud Virgo Network and fourth-generation liquid cooling, targeting large-scale agentic inference and reinforcement learning workloads. This is currently the only first-hand report on the matter, with no follow-up or differing accounts from other sources.
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- NVIDIA BlogSelectedGoogle Cloud and NVIDIA Announce General Availability of NVIDIA Vera Rubin Infrastructure
General availability of the instances is coming next month, with planned expansion of availability to Europe — bringing an integrated platform for training, inference and large-scale reinforcement learning to cloud customers.
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