Google Cloud and NVIDIA make A5X instances generally available next month

Google aims to scale the Vera Rubin‑based infrastructure to as many as 960,000 Rubin GPUs across multiple sites. Ineffable Intelligence, founded by AlphaGo creator David Silver, is the first customer and is using the system to develop large‑scale “superlearner” reinforcement‑learning systems that continuously improve from experience. WPP showcased a creative‑agent reference architecture on A5X using NVIDIA Nemotron models and OpenShell, consolidating workloads that normally required a multi‑node cluster onto a single instance while providing governed sandboxes for brand‑safe execution. Additional customers such as Vertebrae, Polaris Cloud and Confidential Core AI are using Google’s Confidential Computing offerings on G4 VMs for privacy‑preserving inference and policy‑governed AI.