CoreWeave Expands its NVIDIA Blackwell Fleet with Generally Available NVIDIA HGX B200 Instances
May 20, 2026
Summary
This post announces the general availability of NVIDIA HGX B200 instances on CoreWeave, expanding the Blackwell fleet. It details the hardware specifications of these instances, including 8 NVIDIA B200 Blackwell GPUs, 2 Intel Emerald Rapids CPUs, 61.44TB NVMe local storage, and NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. It highlights the performance benefits for AI training and inference, noting up to 2x faster performance than Hopper GPUs and up to 15x faster inference on specific models. The post also emphasizes CoreWeave's infrastructure optimizations, including SUNK for unified training/serving and CKS for bare-metal performance, along with observability features.