Google Cloud to launch A5X instances on NVIDIA Vera Rubin in November

A5X combines Vera Rubin NVL72, ConnectX-9 SuperNICs, Google Cloud's Virgo network and fourth-generation liquid cooling. Availability is planned to extend to Europe. London-based Ineffable Intelligence, founded by AlphaGo creator David Silver, is the first customer, for large-scale reinforcement learning. In WPP's initial tests, workloads that typically required a multi-node cluster ran on a single A5X instance. Google Cloud also makes Confidential Computing generally available on G4 VMs.

Source: NVIDIA, published on October 21, 2026.