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Sofinnova taps NVIDIA to bolster portfolio companies' computational power
Sofinnova Partners has partnered with NVIDIA in a move intended to equip its life sciences portfolio companies with faster processing speeds for processing complex biological datasets. The French VC said that amid increasing demand for computational resources driven by artificial intelligence (AI), its portfolio companies will now be able to access NVIDIA Blackwell and related graphical processing units (GPU) offered by the technology giant via NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton, an AI platform and marketplace that connects developers to global AI infrastructure. According to a report by GlobalData, the global revenue for AI platforms across healthcare is forecast to reach $18.8bn by 2027. Sofinnova's most recent fund is focused on digital medicine. By partnering with Nvidia, its portfolio companies in the area, including startups BioCorteX, Bioptimus, and Cure51, will be to process biological datasets and run computational models to complete tasks 'within days' that would previously have taken months through Cloud Lepton, the VC said. Sofinnova Partners' chairman and managing partner Antoine Papiernik commented: "This collaboration supercharges computation for life sciences innovation. The convergence of biology, AI, computation, and data isn't just our investment thesis – it's the defining battleground of the next decade. 'By securing access to Nvidia's infrastructure, we're not just funding companies; we're empowering them with the computational backbone needed to outperform incumbents and redefine what's possible in drug discovery, precision medicine, and scalable solutions that address both human health and sustainability." In March, Sofinnova's life sciences fund reached €4bn ($4.6bn). Papiernik said that following the milestone, the VC plans to invest in 50 to 60 new companies, adding to the more than 100 life sciences companies it has invested in to date, including the cardiovascular medtech company Shockwave Medical. Sofinnova also has Sofinnova AI. Launched in 2023 and combining data analytics and machine learning, the VC has stated that this fund is intended to strengthen its ability to identify innovations and accelerate the development of life sciences companies. News of the partnership coincides with Nvidia's GTC conference, taking place in Paris, France from 10-12 June. During a presentation at the event, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said: 'Europe isn't just adopting AI — it's building it.' Notable healthcare announcements at the event included a new collaboration between Nvidia and Novo Nordisk to accelerate drug discovery efforts through AI use cases, with Nvidia's aim to create customised AI models and agents that Novo Nordisk can use ind early research and clinical development. Nvidia also announced a new partnership with GE HealthCare intended to advance innovation in autonomous imaging with a focus on developing autonomous X-ray technologies and ultrasound applications. "Sofinnova taps NVIDIA to bolster portfolio companies' computational power" was originally created and published by Medical Device Network, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
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2 days ago
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Nebius delivers first NVIDIA Blackwell general availability in Europe; brings NVIDIA AI Enterprise to Nebius AI Cloud
Announces first general availability of NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 capacity in Europe; NVIDIA B200 capacity to be available on-demand through Nebius self-service platform, as well as via NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton; Strengthens software capabilities of Nebius AI Cloud for enterprise use-cases and sovereign AI projects. AMSTERDAM, June 11, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nebius (NASDAQ: NBIS) today announced the first general availability of NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip capacity for customers in Europe, as it continues to build out full-stack AI infrastructure globally to accelerate AI innovation at scale. Arkady Volozh, founder and CEO of Nebius, said: "Our mission is to provide the infrastructure that accelerates AI innovation in Europe and globally. By integrating NVIDIA accelerated computing and enterprise-grade software more deeply into the Nebius AI Cloud platform, we are giving European innovators – whether startups, enterprises, developers, or researchers – access to the tools they need to build, scale, and deploy the next generation of AI applications." Nebius today also announced other integrations with NVIDIA's accelerated computing platform, including expansion of Nebius AI Cloud with the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software stack; first-to-market access to NVIDIA Blackwell via NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton; and first-in-Europe access to NVIDIA Hopper GPUs through the NVIDIA Brev platform. Nebius will also offer instances featuring the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition later this year. "Nebius is helping bring the power of the AI factory to the forefront of Europe's AI transformation," said Dave Salvator, director of accelerated computing products at NVIDIA. "With its strong focus on performance, scalability, and compliance, Nebius enables innovators across sectors to develop and deploy the next generation of reasoning, agentic and physical AI faster and more efficiently." As an early adopter of NVIDIA Blackwell, Nebius worked with research group LMArena in collaboration with NVIDIA to bring LMArena's Prompt-to-Leaderboard (P2L) system into production using GB200 NVL72 infrastructure. Trained in just four days via NVIDIA DGX Cloud on Nebius, P2L routes real-time user queries to the most accurate and cost-efficient models, leveraging live feedback to optimize performance. The project demonstrates the flexibility and scalability of Nebius's infrastructure for open-source AI innovation. "Working with Nebius and the NVIDIA GB200 platform fundamentally transformed our ability to scale P2L rapidly," said Wei-Lin Chiang of LMArena. "The system's performance gave us the flexibility to experiment, iterate quickly, and deliver a real-time routing model that adapts to live user input. We're seeing improved accuracy and efficiency as a result." The addition of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise stack to Nebius AI Cloud expands Nebius's support for enterprise use cases and national AI projects. NVIDIA AI Enterprise provides access to a robust suite of tools to accelerate AI development and deployment, including NVIDIA NIM microservices, NVIDIA NeMo, and other foundational components. Nebius customers are already realizing the benefits. Prima Mente, a biotech company focused on neurological diseases like Alzheimer's, is leveraging Nebius's infrastructure to power its epigenetics research. "Nebius's GPU Cloud and AI-centric infrastructure give Prima Mente the elastic, cost-efficient HPC we need to train and fine-tune our 90M to 7B-parameter epigenetic foundation models at scale," said Ravi Solanki, CEO of Prima Mente. "Their life-sciences-ready platform lets us spin up secure clusters in minutes, compressing model-development cycles and accelerating delivery of next-generation brain-health diagnostics to researchers and clinicians worldwide." The first European-headquartered Reference Platform NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP), Nebius aligns with EU regulatory standards and provides the performance and transparency needed for national and sovereign AI projects. That makes Nebius a natural fit for strategic AI initiatives like Milestone Systems' Project Hafnia, which in collaboration with NVIDIA and Nebius is developing a compliant, anonymized video data platform for training AI vision-language models. These models are then used to help cities develop smart city AI solutions powered by NVIDIA digital twins and AI agents. All data is stored and processed within the EU. "It is a core commitment of the EU to lead the way when it comes to transparency, fairness and regulatory integrity within AI and technology," says Thomas Jensen, CEO of Milestone Systems. "Aligning with the legal framework is a key part of this. I am proud that Milestone's Project Hafnia, built on NVIDIA, can now provide the world's first regulatory compliant platform – and with Nebius serving as European cloud provider, visual AI model training with high-quality, compliant video data can truly be rooted in Europe." About Nebius Nebius is a technology company building full-stack infrastructure to service the explosive growth of the global AI industry, including large-scale GPU clusters, an AI-native cloud platform, and tools and services for developers. Headquartered in Amsterdam and listed on Nasdaq, the Company has a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, North America and Israel. Nebius's AI Cloud has been built from the ground up for intensive AI workloads. With proprietary software and hardware designed in-house, Nebius gives AI builders the compute, storage, managed services and tools they need to build, tune and run their models. Nebius is one of only a handful of companies globally to hold Reference Platform NVIDIA Cloud Partner status, underscoring its expertise in designing and deploying a full stack of hardware and software infrastructure to NVIDIA's Reference Architecture. To learn more please visit View source version on Contacts Media Relations: media@ Effettua l'accesso per consultare il tuo portafoglio
Business Wire
2 days ago
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Sofinnova Partners Collaborates With NVIDIA to Accelerate European Life Sciences Startups
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sofinnova Partners ('Sofinnova"), a leading European life sciences venture capital firm based in Paris, London, and Milan, today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to support its portfolio of life sciences startups. The collaboration delivers significant Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) credits to select Sofinnova portfolio companies, effectively giving access to the same computational firepower used by tech titans in Silicon Valley. Amidst increasing demand for computational resources driven by AI, Sofinnova's portfolio companies will be able to access NVIDIA Blackwell and other NVIDIA architecture GPUs via NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton, an AI platform and marketplace connecting developers to global AI infrastructure. BioCorteX, Bioptimus, Cure51 and Latent Labs —four of Europe's most promising digital medicine startups—will gain access to computing resources through DGX Cloud Lepton, enabling them to process biological data sets and run computational models that would have taken months, completing them in days. Cure51, a pioneer in decoding the biology of exceptional cancer survivors, tested NVIDIA Parabricks, a GPU-accelerated genomics toolkit, and achieved up to 17x faster processing with NVIDIA H100 GPUs and more than 2x cost savings with NVIDIA L4 GPUs compared to their CPU baseline—dramatically accelerating their ability to analyze complex genomic data and scale their survivor-based insights. "This collaboration supercharges computation for life sciences innovation," said Antoine Papiernik, Chairman and Managing Partner at Sofinnova Partners. "The convergence of biology, AI, computation, and data isn't just our investment thesis—it's the defining battleground of the next decade. From our Digital Medicine strategy to our own proprietary AI platform we recognize the transformative potential of AI across our entire domain. By securing access to NVIDIA's infrastructure, we're not just funding companies; we're empowering them with the computational backbone needed to outperform incumbents and redefine what's possible in drug discovery, precision medicine, and scalable solutions that address both human health and sustainability." Learn more about NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton and view the official NVIDIA announcement. ### About Sofinnova Partners Sofinnova Partners is a leading European venture capital firm in life sciences, specializing in healthcare and sustainability. Based in Paris, London and Milan, the firm brings together a team of professionals from all over the world with strong scientific, medical and business expertise. Sofinnova Partners is a hands-on company builder across the entire value chain of life sciences investments, from seed to later-stage. Founded in 1972, Sofinnova Partners is a deeply established venture capital firm in Europe, with 50 years of experience backing over 500 companies and creating market leaders around the globe. Today, Sofinnova Partners manages over €4 billion in assets. For more information, please visit:
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19-05-2025
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GMI Cloud to Build the Next Era of AI with NVIDIA
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- GMI Cloud, a fast-rising provider of GPU-as-a-Service infrastructure purpose-built for AI, announced today it is among the first GPU cloud providers to contribute to NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton, a recently announced AI platform and marketplace designed to connect the world's developers with global compute capacity. As an NVIDIA Cloud Partner, GMI Cloud will bring high-performance GPU infrastructure, including NVIDIA Blackwell and other leading architectures, to the NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton. This integration gives developers access to GMI Cloud's globally distributed infrastructure, supporting everything from low-latency real-time inference to long-term, sovereign AI workloads. What this unlocks for AI builders and developersDGX Cloud Lepton addresses a critical challenge for developers: securing access to reliable, high-performance GPU resources at scale in a unified way. DGX Cloud Lepton addresses this challenge with a unified platform that simplifies development, training, and deployment of AI. The platform integrates directly with NVIDIA's software stack, including NVIDIA NIM microservices, NVIDIA NeMo, NVIDIA Blueprints, and NVIDIA Cloud Functions, to make the journey from prototype to production faster and more efficient. Why this matters to buildersAt GMI Cloud, we're contributing to DGX Cloud Lepton by offering: Direct access to NVIDIA GPU clusters optimized for cost, scale, and performance Strategic regional availability to meet compliance and latency needs Full-stack infrastructure ownership that allows us to deliver unbeatable economics to our customers Fast deployment pipelines powered by a robust toolchain and NVIDIA's integrated software stack Whether you're deploying LLMs, building autonomous systems, or scaling inference, GMI Cloud is here to help you Build AI Without Limits as part of DGX Cloud Lepton, beginning with 16 node clusters available on the marketplace. "DGX Cloud Lepton reflects everything we believe in at GMI Cloud: speed, sovereignty, and scale without compromise," said Alex Yeh, CEO of GMI Cloud. "We built our infrastructure from the silicon up to help developers build AI without limits. This partnership accelerates that vision." For early access and to discover GMI Cloud GPUs, visit the developer portal at DGX Cloud Lepton and to learn more about the next era of AI visit our blog today. About GMI CloudGMI Cloud delivers full-stack, U.S.-based GPU infrastructure and enterprise-grade inference services built to scale AI products. Whether training foundation models or deploying real-time agents, GMI gives teams full control of performance, costs, and launch velocity. With on-demand and reserved GPU clusters for all workloads and projects, GMI helps AI teams build without limits. GMI Cloud is based out of Mountain View, CA. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE GMI Cloud Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Techday NZ
19-05-2025
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NVIDIA launches DGX Cloud Lepton to link global GPU networks
NVIDIA has unveiled DGX Cloud Lepton, a platform aimed at linking developers with a worldwide network of cloud GPU providers through an AI compute marketplace. The DGX Cloud Lepton platform brings together GPU resources from companies such as CoreWeave, Crusoe, Firmus, Foxconn, GMI Cloud, Lambda, Nebius, Nscale, SoftBank Corp and Yotta Data Services. These partners are making tens of thousands of GPUs available through the platform, including those based on the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, in order to support increasing demand for generative and physical AI applications. Developers using the platform are able to access GPU computing power in specific geographic regions for both on-demand and long-term requirements. This is aimed at supporting operational needs, such as strategic and sovereign AI initiatives which require compliance with regional data regulations. NVIDIA has also signalled that additional cloud service providers and GPU marketplaces are expected to join the DGX Cloud Lepton marketplace in the future. Jensen Huang, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of NVIDIA, said, "NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton connects our network of global GPU cloud providers with AI developers. Together with our NCPs, we're building a planetary-scale AI factory." The DGX Cloud Lepton platform is designed to tackle a consistent challenge in the AI sector: reliable access to sufficient, high-performance GPU resources. To address this, it combines access to cloud AI services and GPU capacity across the NVIDIA ecosystem. The system integrates with existing NVIDIA software, including NIM and NeMo microservices, NVIDIA Blueprints, and NVIDIA Cloud Functions. This aims to accelerate and streamline the development and deployment lifecycle for AI applications by providing unified tooling and interfaces. For cloud providers, the DGX Cloud Lepton platform includes management software that supplies real-time GPU health diagnostics and automation for root-cause analysis. This is intended to reduce manual intervention and lower system downtime. The platform is introduced with multiple touted benefits. In terms of productivity and flexibility, it delivers a single experience for development, training, and inference. Developers can buy GPU capacity straight from participating cloud providers or use their own clusters, offering greater autonomy over deployment. The platform also aims to allow frictionless deployment of AI applications across multi-cloud and hybrid settings, making it easier to handle inference, testing, and training on varying workloads. Another highlight is the agility provided to users. The ability to quickly access GPU resources in select regions is designed to help developers meet requirements for data sovereignty and support low-latency workloads. According to NVIDIA, the platform offers enterprise-level reliability, performance, and security, helping partners deliver a uniform user experience. NVIDIA also introduced Exemplar Clouds, a programme which assists cloud partners in improving security, usability, performance and resiliency. Exemplar Clouds utilise NVIDIA's reference hardware, software, operational tools, and benchmarking suite—DGX Cloud Benchmarking—to assist partners in optimising workload performance and evaluating cost-effectiveness. Yotta Data Services has been named as the first NVIDIA Cloud Partner in the Asia-Pacific region to participate in the Exemplar Cloud initiative. Developers can register for early access to the DGX Cloud Lepton platform. NVIDIA stated that further details about the programme and related technology advances can be explored at its events in Taipei.
