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HPE AI Factory With NVIDIA Expands for the Era of Agents

HPE and NVIDIA just expanded their AI Factory for agents. Enterprise deployments are moving from pilot to production.

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Why it matters

As enterprises scale agentic AI from POC to production workloads, infrastructure partnerships are reshaping compute and software stacks. This expansion signals where the next capex wave is flowing.

The key facts

6 to know
  1. HPE AI Factory with NVIDIA expanding with new CPU and agent toolkit

  2. Focus shift: agentic AI moving from proof-of-concept to production

  3. NVIDIA Vera CPU integration

  4. NVIDIA Agent Toolkit included

  5. Announced at HPE Discover Las Vegas (June 16-18, 2026)

  6. Enterprise infrastructure buildout for agentic workloads

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NVIDIA Blogblogs.nvidia.com

Publisher excerpt: Enterprises are moving agentic AI from proof of concept to production — and the next generation of AI factories are built for the era of agents. At HPE Discover Las Vegas, running through Thursday, June 18, NVIDIA and HPE are expanding the HPE AI Factory with NVIDIA, including NVIDIA Vera CPU and…
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