Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced the HPE AI Grid at NVIDIA GTC 2026, an end-to-end solution built on NVIDIA reference architecture to connect AI factories and distributed inference clusters across regional and edge sites.

The solution enables service providers to deploy and operate distributed inference sites as a single intelligent system. HPE states the AI Grid delivers predictable, low-latency performance for real-time AI services with zero-touch provisioning and automated security.

The HPE AI Grid includes HPE Juniper's multicloud routing and coherent optics for connectivity, along with HPE ProLiant edge and rack servers featuring NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, Spectrum-X Ethernet switches, and Connect-X SuperNICs.

"We're redefining how AI is delivered by moving intelligence to where data and users live," said Rami Rahim, executive vice president of Networking at HPE. The company targets use cases requiring low-latency connectivity including retail personalization, predictive maintenance, healthcare edge inference, and carrier-grade AI services.

Comcast announced AI field trials on its network for real-time edge AI inferencing, including HPE ProLiant servers running small language models on NVIDIA GPUs for AI-powered business services.

TELUS and CityFibre expressed interest in exploring the HPE AI Grid solution. TELUS has worked with HPE and NVIDIA on its Sovereign AI Factory supercomputer project.

HPE Financial Services is offering 0% financing on networking software including HPE Juniper Networking Mist and financing equivalent to 10% cash savings on AI-ready networking leases to accelerate adoption.

The information is based on HPE's press release statement.