Nvidia бесплатно передала суперкомпьютер DGX GB300 военной школе ВМС США

In July 2026, Nvidia donated a DGX GB300 AI supercomputer to the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey — the first system of its kind installed anywhere in the country's armed forces. Company founder Jensen Huang personally traveled to commission the machine.

What Nvidia handed over

Nvidia gave the military one DGX GB300 AI supercomputer — the company's flagship system for training and running large AI models. The machine was installed at the Naval Postgraduate School, a research university of the U.S. Department of Defense in Monterey, California.

The DGX GB300 is a ready-to-run cluster for heavy AI workloads: training large language models, running simulations, and analyzing data. For the military university, this means being able to run such workloads on its own site instead of renting capacity from third-party data centers.

• Recipient — Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Monterey, California
• Model — Nvidia DGX GB300
• Status — the first system of its class in the U.S. armed forces
• Format — a free donation, not a sale
• Commissioning — with the personal involvement of Jensen Huang, July 2026

Jensen Huang, founder and head of Nvidia, traveled to Monterey specifically for this and helped commission the system at the school's site.

Why a gift, not a sale

Nvidia gave away the DGX GB300 for free — even though, as The Next Web notes, most defense contractors would have to pay for such a machine. The company structured the delivery specifically as a donation to a military research university, not as a commercial contract.

Nvidia did not disclose either the cost of the system or the terms of further support — it is only known that the school did not pay for the hardware.

A machine that most defense contractors would have had to sell,

Nvidia gave away for free. — according to The Next Web

For Nvidia, this is both a goodwill gesture and a way to gain a foothold in the defense segment: the sole supplier of the hardware on which American military personnel learn to build their own AI systems gains a strategic advantage.

Why this matters for the military

The Naval Postgraduate School received an AI supercomputer of this caliber for the first time — no system like this had previously stood in the U.S. armed forces. NPS trains officers and conducts applied research, so access to Nvidia's top-tier hardware directly affects what AI development the military can carry out in-house, without outsourcing it to contractors.

The Monterey school is not a combat unit but a research center: officers there earn engineering and scientific degrees. That's why the first DGX GB300 in the armed forces is landing precisely in a research environment, where it will be used to train future specialists in military AI.

Installing the first machine of this class sets a precedent: it will very likely be followed by procurement for other units. The civilian AI boom has reached the defense sector, and Nvidia once again turns out to be the number-one supplier there.

What this means

The handover of the DGX GB300 to a military school is a marker that the race for AI infrastructure has moved beyond Big Tech and labs and reached the military. Nvidia is cementing its role as the leading compute supplier there too, and the first installation at NPS opens the door to larger defense contracts.

FAQ

What did Nvidia give to the military?

Nvidia donated a DGX GB300 AI supercomputer to the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. This is the first system of its class in the country's armed forces.

Where was the supercomputer installed?

The system was placed at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) — a research university of the U.S. Department of Defense in Monterey, California. Jensen Huang himself helped commission it.

Who is Jensen Huang?

Jensen Huang is the founder and CEO of Nvidia. He personally traveled to Monterey in July 2026 to commission the donated supercomputer.