Microsoft unleashes Azure H100 cloud beasts
Microsoft just launched its Azure ND H100 v5 virtual machines, packing eight NVIDIA H100 GPUs and Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking for massive AI workloads. The cloud giant also expanded Azure OpenAI Service to five new regions, broadening access to models like GPT-4 as enterprise adoption surges. Why it matters: Microsoft is rapidly scaling up hardware muscle to meet insatiable cloud AI demand.