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Vera Rubin NVL72: 10x Lower Inference Cost Than Blackwell.
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72-GPU racks with 50 PFLOPS/GPU, 260 TB/s NVLink 6, BlueField-4 AI-native storage for agentic KV-cache sharing. H2 2026 availability from AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, CoreWeave, and Nebius. NVIDIA Newsroom
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