SUSE launched SUSE AI Factory in partnership with Nvidia, providing containerized AI infrastructure, deployment frameworks, and operational tools for enterprise customers.
At SUSECON 2026 held in Prague, Czech Republic on April 21, 2026, SUSE announced SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA, a unified software stack for enterprise AI designed to bridge the gap between local development and scalable enterprise production. Built with SUSE AI and NVIDIA AI Enterprise, this solution operates as a turnkey digital factory producing enterprise-grade AI capabilities, empowering enterprises to assemble, deploy, manage, and govern AI applications consistently and at scale across any footprint, from the tactical edge to the core datacenter to the public cloud.
Purpose-built to address strict global mandates for digital sovereignty, SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA enables organizations to use NVIDIA's latest AI technology while keeping sensitive logic and proprietary data protected within their private infrastructure. The solution integrates a comprehensive technology stack including NVIDIA NIM microservices, open Nemotron models, NVIDIA NeMo for building and managing agents, NVIDIA Run:ai for GPU orchestration, NVIDIA Kubernetes Operators, the NVIDIA OpenShell secure runtime for agents and NVIDIA NemoClaw, which make use of SUSE's K3s technology to provide a reference stack for deploying more secure autonomous AI agents.
SUSE AI Factory is an automated, full-software-stack that standardizes how AI applications are deployed and run. Users can build and test applications in a sandbox environment while platform teams manage deployment through either a unified Rancher-based interface or automated GitOps workflows for management at scale. This approach reduces setup time and allows teams to move from concept to production faster, reducing operational overhead and removing the need to manage disparate tools.
Thomas Di Giacomo, Chief Technology and Product Officer at SUSE, stated that "AI developers, users and operations teams are in a catch-22 with AI, they want to innovate quickly but must secure these types of workloads, agents and processes, to ensure full auditability before fully running them in production," adding that "SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA gives them a one-stop solution for end-to-end stability, security and sovereignty, while benefitting from today's and future AI innovation." John Fanelli, Vice President of Enterprise Software at NVIDIA, noted that "Enterprise adoption of AI is accelerating, creating demand for infrastructure that ensures data control and governance for regulated workloads," and emphasized that "Our collaboration with SUSE addresses this requirement by delivering an open, full-stack AI Factory built on a foundation of security and sovereignty." According to an IDC FutureScape report, "By 2028 60% of Global 2000 enterprises will operate AI factories as core AI infrastructure, and forward-looking governments will emulate, enabling AI deployment five times faster than those without." A preview of SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA will be demonstrated at SUSECON and is expected to be available later in 2026.