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March 20, 2026
Microsoft & NVIDIA: Scaling Agentic & Physical AI
Microsoft & NVIDIA unveiled Foundry tools, Azure AI and digital twins to scale development of secure, production-ready agents for real-time action
TL;DR
- Microsoft and NVIDIA are launching new capabilities across Foundry, Azure AI, and physical AI to help customers operate AI reliably at enterprise scale.
- New Foundry tools allow users to build, deploy, and operate production-ready AI agents on NVIDIA accelerators and open Nemotron models.
- Foundry Agent Service and Observability in Foundry Control Plane are now generally available, enabling teams to create and monitor AI agents.
- Azure AI infrastructure is being optimized for reasoning workloads and will be the first hyperscale cloud to power NVIDIA's next-generation Vera Rubin NVL72 systems.
- The partnership is integrating industrial physical AI with NVIDIA's Data Factory Blueprint and Microsoft Foundry, connecting physical assets, simulation, and cloud training.
- Deeper integration between Microsoft Fabric and NVIDIA Omniverse libraries will connect live data with digital twins for improved real-time AI-driven actions in industries like manufacturing and logistics.
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