5 Big Moves In CrowdStrike-Nvidia AI Partnership

The latest expansion of the collaboration includes CrowdStrike and Nvidia utilizing each other’s capabilities more deeply for the creation and deployment of AI agents, executives say.

A newly announced partnership expansion between CrowdStrike and Nvidia will see the technology giants utilizing each other’s capabilities more deeply for the creation and deployment of AI agents.

The expanded collaboration, announced Tuesday, will also bring major opportunities for solution and service provider partners of the two companies, executives from CrowdStrike and Nvidia said during a call with media outlets.

The announcement came in connection with Nvidia GTC, being held this week in Washington, D.C.

What follows are the key details on five big moves in the CrowdStrike-Nvidia AI partnership.

Recent Integration

The announcement of the CrowdStrike-Nvidia partnership expansion Tuesday follows the unveiling of a major new integration across key AI platforms from the two vendors in September.

The prior announcement included an integration between Charlotte AI AgentWorks — CrowdStrike’s no-code platform for building, testing, deploying and orchestrating security agents — and Nvidia Nemotron, a family of open AI models, datasets and technologies.

CrowdStrike is also using a broad set of capabilities from Nvidia, which has only expanded with the announcement Tuesday, executives said.

The cybersecurity vendor is essentially using “everything [Nvidia is] doing in state-of-the-art agents at this point,” said Justin Boitano, vice president of enterprise AI at Nvidia.

Building ‘Deeper’ Agents

Now, with the help of Nvidia’s NeMo Data Designer, CrowdStrike is “building deeper agents based on our unique, proprietary data,” said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer at CrowdStrike.

Examples of where this makes a difference include Falcon Complete, the vendor’s managed detection and response (MDR) platform, Bernard said.

The capabilities allow CrowdStrike to harness the experience of Falcon Complete analysts and transform that expertise into datasets, he said. The datasets, then, can be turned into a AI models — which in turn can ultimately “create agents based on the whole composition and experience that we built up within the company,” Bernard said.

With the help of the NeMo Data Designer from Nvidia, CrowdStrike is “building deeper, smarter agents — and doing so faster,” he said.

AI On The Edge

CrowdStrike is also working with Nvidia technologies to accelerate its efforts on bringing AI to edge computing environments, the companies said.

As announced Tuesday, CrowdStrike is working with Nvidia’s NeMo Agent Toolkit to “create composable AI that lives anywhere, specifically agents on the edge and AI on the edge,” Bernard said.

Using the NeMo toolkit, CrowdStrike is gaining the ability to have the Falcon platform operate effectively at the edge, which “makes cybersecurity faster and scales it even better,” he said.

All in all, “the foundational work that we're doing with Nvidia positions CrowdStrike to be the protector of the AI era,” Bernard said.

Training Nemotron Models

Another key aspect of the expanded partnership enables customers to train Nemotron open models from Nvidia using data from CrowdStrike tools along with the NeMo Data Designer, the companies said.

That allows for fine-tuning of the Nemotron models for customers’ own agents that are built using CrowdStrike’s offerings, according to the announcement.

The potential is to “take domain-specific data [and] create synthetic data sets to expand the training set,” said Nvidia’s Boitano.

As a result, for instance, “you can build these specialized, threat-hunting agents — and then you can move that all the way to the edge, on the AI factories that we're building and then scaling into enterprise,” he said.

For CrowdStrike and Nvidia, “I think it's a natural next step in the journey. It extends this intelligence to the edge,” Boitano said. Additionally, “it’s the only way to protect against the speed of AI at this point.”

All in all, “we think the American tech stack needs to become the global standard in this race to bringing AI to the world,” he said. “Companies like CrowdStrike that are leading in this AI race — they're going to be the foundation of our digital economy.”

Partner Opportunities

When it comes to bringing to market the joint capabilities from CrowdStrike and Nvidia, there are already many partners “leaning into the innovation that we're doing,” CrowdStrike’s Bernard said.

“AI is part of every security discussion, and security is part of every AI discussion,” he said. “The entire ecosystem starts to realize, ‘We need to work with CrowdStrike because it helps us to get more technology adopted.’ And our entire ecosystem realizes, ‘We need to be talking about Nvidia capabilities because it helps sell more CrowdStrike.’”

Likewise, for Nvidia, the “foundational work” that’s been accomplished so far with CrowdStrike should set the stage for strong growth among system integrators and solution providers, Boitano said.

Ultimately, “I think it is a critical capability to unlock AI infrastructure in the enterprise environment to run these AI factories,” he said.