Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Jensen Huang announced Monday night that the company will be supplying its artificial intelligence-focused GPU hardware to several of China’s largest cloud-computing providers and server-hardware manufacturers, as well as new partnerships with server-hardware makers.

“AI is the most important technology development of our time, with the greatest potential to help society,” Huang said in a statement. “As the world’s leading cloud providers deploy the world’s best AI platform, with Volta GPUs and Nvidia software, we’ll see amazing breakthroughs in medicine, autonomous transportation, precision manufacturing and much more.”

Huang made the announcement at Nvidia’s NVDA, +2.69% GTC China conference in Beijing. The company’s stock plunged 4.47% during the regular session Monday to $171, amid a broad selloff of blue-chip tech companies.

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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. BABA, +0.51% , Baidu Inc. BIDU, -0.08% and Tencent Holdings Ltd. 700, -0.96% are upgrading their data centers with Nvidia’s Volta-based platforms, which revolve around the V100 data center GPU, the company said in a statement. The chip has 21 billion transistors and offers five times the performance over the Pascal-based chips the Chinese firms currently have deployed, and the deal is similar to partnerships Nvidia has with U.S. cloud-computing providers.

In recent years, Nvidia has made large bets on artificial intelligence and cloud computing, seeking, in part, to expand beyond its bread-and-butter gaming business, which often experiences seasonal fluctuations. In the second quarter, Nvidia’s data-center business grew 175% to $416 million, up from $151 million in the year-earlier period.

In addition to the Chinese cloud firms, Nvidia said that some of China’s largest server builders are adopting Nvidia hardware for their products. Huawei Investment & Holding Co. Ltd., Inspur International Ltd. 596, +1.57% and Lenovo Group Ltd. 992, -1.72% are now using Nvidia’s HGX reference architecture to offer Volta-based systems for hyperscale data centers. The deal provided the original equipment manufacturers with early access to the technology so that they could go to market with the products more quickly.

At the GTC China event, Nvidia unveiled another product that would help servers and cloud computing: a new version of its TensorRT inference software, which boosts performance and cuts costs in cloud computing as well as in self-driving vehicles and robots. The new version, TensorRT 3, is a compiler and runtime engine for deploying artificial-intelligence applications. Nvidia said that more than 1,200 companies use the software, including tech giants in the U.S. and China.

To round out the announcements in his keynote address, Huang said that the company was going to work with JD.com Inc. on its drone and robot fleets. The new drones, powered by Nvidia’s Jetson supercomputer, will participate in several delivery pilot programs that aim to bring e-commerce to rural areas via airborne drones and on-the-ground delivery robots to service cities. JD will release more than 1 million drones over the next five years, according to the statement.

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In many ways, the China announcements about its cloud and server partnerships mirror Nvidia’s U.S. strategy, where it sells chips to large cloud providers such as Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +0.18% , Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, -1.44% , Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +1.07% and Facebook Inc. FB, -1.73% , among others.