Databricks & Nvidia: AI's Greener Data Processing

Nvidia is expanding its collaboration with artificial intelligence (AI)/data firm Databricks even more.

The newest partnership of Databricks & Nvidia revealed on Wednesday (June 12), aims to enhance data and AI tasks by integrating Nvidia's high-performance computing into the heart of Databricks' data intelligence platform.

"As data prep, curation, and processing workloads are essential to using enterprise data for generative AI applications, the companies' work together is designed to boost the efficiency, accuracy, and performance of AI development pipelines for modern AI factories," Databricks said in a news release.

The collaboration will entail Databricks building native support for Nvidia GPU acceleration into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. The two companies, Databricks & Nvidia, first formed a partnership last year after Nvidia invested in Databricks. In March, the companies said they were deepening the Databricks & Nvidia partnership to enhance data and artificial intelligence workloads on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform with Nvidia's accelerated computing and software. "Data is the fuel for the generative AI industrial revolution, so reducing data processing energy demands with accelerated computing is essential to sustainable AI platforms," Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of Nvidia, stated in the company's news release on Wednesday.

"Databricks is the pioneer of large-scale data processing. By bringing NVIDIA CUDA acceleration to Databricks' core computing stack, we're laying the foundation for customers everywhere to use their data to power enterprise generative AI," Huang added.

As PYMNTS reported last month, Nvidia published its earnings, which topped Wall Street's expectations. This provided comfort to investors and analysts who eagerly anticipated Nvidia's report, given the company's significance as an indicator for the overall AI market.

The US$3 trillion chipmaker said its sales were up 18 % on the previous three months and 262 % higher than the year-ago period.

Huang stated that more businesses and governments are partnering with Nvidia to transform their conventional data centers into 'AI factories' that will bring increased efficiency across most sectors of the economy and make up for the increased revenues.

Huang commented this month, declaring that Nvidia is annually going to bring out new artificial intelligence accelerators, Blackwell Ultra is expected early next year, while the new AI platform is due in 2026.

Regarding this expansion, the CEO mentioned that he also predicted that generative AI would become more popular among companies and government agencies.