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Publication Date: 2026-08-27 08:21:00
Nutanix has launched Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) 2.8, adding a generally available Model Context Protocol (MCP) Gateway designed to govern how artificial intelligence agents connect with enterprise applications and data.
The company said NAI 2.8 is available now as part of a broader expansion of its Nutanix Cloud Platform for production AI. Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) 2.19 is also planned for release soon, with features aimed at running AI applications across virtualized and bare-metal environments.
MCP Gateway targets agent access to tools and data
The main addition in NAI 2.8 is the MCP Gateway within Nutanix Agent Gateway. MCP has emerged as a standard way for AI agents and assistants to connect with external tools, applications and data sources. As enterprises expose more internal systems through MCP, access control and visibility over those connections become part of the deployment challenge.
Nutanix said its gateway provides a centralized layer for governing agent access to applications and data. The company is also offering an MCP Server for Nutanix Cloud Platform so customers can build agentic applications that interact with infrastructure managed by Nutanix.
The release also expands Nutanix Private Inference, including support for parameter-efficient fine-tuning using Low-Rank Adaptation for smaller models, multi-GPU inference through tensor parallelism, batch inference and speculative decoding. Nutanix said speculative decoding can accelerate…
