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Publication Date: 2026-08-26 13:21:00
Nutanix announced the general availability of Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) 2.8, and the upcoming general availability of Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) 2.19.
It said its core Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) offering is being enhanced and expanded for production agentic AI with its dual-native, side-by-side, container and virtual machine architecture. NAI 2.8 provides centralized control for AI inference and agentic AI, including Nutanix Agent Gateway, with its Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateway for governing how agents connect with apps and data via MCP. Nutanix Private Inference provides enhanced capabilities for high-performance fine tuning and inference, along with improved security and governance. NKP 2.19 is expected to provide streamlined container management for bare metal and virtualized environments, with a built-in AI catalog designed for building and running agentic AI applications.
Thomas Cornely, Nutanix EVP, Product Management, said: “Enterprise AI should not require customers to rebuild the systems that already run their business. With our dual-native architecture, customers can bring AI to their existing applications and data while running each workload on the infrastructure best suited to it,…
