Microsoft unveils new virtual machines using Nvidia H100 GPUs
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Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) unveiled on Monday new virtual machines that use Nvidia's (NASDAQ:NVDA) H100 Tensor Core GPUs and the company's Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking.
The machines allow Microsoft's (MSFT) customers to create infrastructure that can grow to any size for any artificial intelligence task, given that training large language models, or LLMs, need enormous amounts of connected GPUs.

The new virtual machines, known as the ND H100 v5 VM, will use anywhere between eight and "thousands" of NVIDIA H100 GPU to perform the work, Microsoft said in a blog post.
Nvidia (NVDA) unveiled the H100 GPUs last March at its GTC developer conference.
Microsoft (MSFT) shares fell 1% in early trading on Monday, while Nvidia (NVDA) fell nearly 2.7%.
On Monday, Citi said Nvidia (NVDA) was among the "most popular" stocks in the chip sector to own.