# Scaling Agentic AI Factories Through Extreme Co-Design with NVIDIA BlueField

DevFeed: [Scaling Agentic AI Factories Through Extreme Co-Design with NVIDIA BlueField](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/scaling-agentic-ai-factories-through-extreme-co-design-with-nvidia-bluefield-6937.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/scaling-agentic-ai-factories-through-extreme-co-design-with-nvidia-bluefield/>)

Author: Michelle Horton

Published: 2026-07-16T16:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [NVIDIA Developer](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nvidia-developer.md>), [NVIDIA Technical Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nvidia-technical-blog.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [AI Factory](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-factory.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [GPU](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gpu.md>), [Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [NVIDIA Research](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nvidia-research.md>)

Tags: [accelerate](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/accelerate.md>), [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [agentic-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-ai.md>), [agentic-ai-generative-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-ai-generative-ai.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agent.md>), [ai-factory](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-factory.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [compute](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compute.md>), [cpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cpu.md>), [data-center](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-center.md>), [data-center-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-center-cloud.md>), [dsx](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dsx.md>), [featured](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/featured.md>), [gpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gpu.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [memory](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/memory.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [networking-communications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking-communications.md>), [nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nvidia.md>), [policy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/policy.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>), [tool](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tool.md>), [vera-cpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vera-cpu.md>), [vera-rubin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vera-rubin.md>), [vera-rubin-nvl72](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vera-rubin-nvl72.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how agentic AI and long-context inference create demanding data-path requirements for AI factories. It describes NVIDIA BlueField-4, Vera BlueField-4 STX, and DOCA as infrastructure technologies that offload, accelerate, and isolate networking, storage, security, telemetry, and control-plane services while improving utilization, latency, isolation, cost per token, and energy efficiency.

## Source excerpt

Agentic AI changes the infrastructure pattern for AI factories. One request can trigger many model calls, tool calls, memory lookups, policy checks, storage...