Nvidia Agrees to $12.9B Hugging Face Acquisition
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, nearly doubling last year's rejected $7 billion offer, though the deal remains unsigned and could still fall apart.
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Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, nearly doubling last year's rejected $7 billion offer, though the deal remains unsigned and could still fall apart.
Five months after ordering 1 million Nvidia GPUs, AWS has doubled the order to 2 million, even as Amazon's own AI chips hit a $25 billion revenue run rate.
Nvidia's Jetson Orin Nano 2 doubles edge inference at 78 TOPS with 40% lower power draw, but the module and dev kit won't ship until the first half of 2027.
OpenAI's Jalapeño inference chip claims up to 1.9x the throughput per kilowatt of Nvidia's GB300, running at less than half the rated power.
Nvidia is paying AI coding startup Poolside $6 billion to license its model-training system and hiring 109 of its engineers, while Poolside's founders and company stay independent instead of being acquired outright.
Nvidia rejected a report that it would ship LPU inference chips to Chinese customers before year end, but the commercial logic behind the idea remains intact.
OpenAI, Nvidia and SB Energy have set a 20-year structure for the PORTS-Pike campus. The important constraint is power, financing and construction—not another chip launch.
Nvidia is working with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR on compute-financing platforms that could mobilize more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure.
Firebird has launched a NVIDIA DSX AI factory in Armenia, with a roadmap for 70,000 GPUs, 300MW in the country, and a wider 2GW frontier-market infrastructure plan.
Nvidia and Safe Superintelligence tied Ilya Sutskever’s closed research lab to Vera Rubin compute, turning a quiet superintelligence bet into an infrastructure story.
NVIDIA introduced Synthetic Video Detector NIM, a media workflow service that scores whether video is AI-generated before it spreads.
Nvidia tests revenue sharing for AI cloud GPUs is reframed for global technology readers, preserving the key numbers, claims and open questions.
Sovereign AI, open weights and sensitive government workloads.
Aramco Ventures led the Series C, valuing the Nvidia-backed open-model infrastructure provider at $8.3 billion.
Valar Atomics powered an Nvidia Blackwell chip from its Ward250 reactor in Utah, framing the test as a first for nuclear-fed AI infrastructure.
Taiwanese prosecutors searched 12 locations linked to Super Micro partners and seized about 50 servers suspected of being routed toward mainland China, Hong Kong or Macao with false documents.
Upscale AI raised $190 million at a $2 billion valuation, with Nvidia joining the round, as its SkyHammer switch chips pitch open Ethernet standards for large AI clusters.
The young open-source AI lab agreed to rent Nvidia GB300 capacity from SpaceX’s Colossus 2 data center, a deal that can run to 2029 and highlights compute as the scarcest asset.
Goldman Sachs estimates global AI infrastructure spending from 2026 to 2031 could reach $7.6 trillion, with compute, data centers and power as the major buckets.
The June selloff hit megacap tech much harder than the rest of the S&P 500 as investors made room for a coming wave of AI IPOs.
TensorWave is building an AI cloud entirely around AMD Instinct GPUs, testing whether customers will pay for a serious Nvidia alternative.
The reported 10-gigawatt lease would shift OpenAI from owning more infrastructure to long-term capacity commitments backed by partners such as Nvidia.
Germany’s Neura Robotics secured a milestone-based Series C of up to $1.4 billion backed by Tether, NVIDIA, Amazon, Qualcomm and industrial investors.
China is preparing a five-year AI infrastructure plan that could spend about $295 billion while requiring at least 80% domestic hardware and software.
London-based PhysicsX has raised $300 million at a valuation of about $2.4 billion, with Temasek leading and Nvidia, Siemens and Applied Materials joining to back AI-driven engineering simulation.
Hyundai plans a $5.9 billion Saemangeum base with Nvidia Blackwell chips, robotics manufacturing and hydrogen as it tries to industrialize Atlas by 2028.
AFM 3 Cloud Pro extends Apple’s Private Cloud Compute onto Google infrastructure with Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, while Apple stresses stateless and verifiable privacy controls.
The F1-rooted startup says its physics AI can shrink simulations from hours to seconds, drawing Temasek, Nvidia and industrial backers into a $2.4 billion valuation.
The DeepMind and Boston Dynamics alumni behind Generalist AI are betting that adaptable robot intelligence is the next expensive frontier after software AI.
Senator Elizabeth Warren invited Jensen Huang to a June 11 Senate Banking Committee hearing on Nvidia’s China business and US export controls, with H200 shipments at the center.
Qualcomm used Computex 2026 to introduce Dragonfly, a data center brand covering CPUs, inference accelerators and ASICs, while leaving specifications for later.
Nvidia is not selling a humanoid robot so much as a shared research blueprint around Isaac GR00T, Unitree hardware and Jetson Thor.
At Computex 2026, major chipmakers and PC vendors unveiled a full range of AI PCs from $300 entry-level models to high-end machines with 128GB unified memory, all emphasizing on-device AI processing.
Washington reportedly approved H200 sales to about ten Chinese firms, yet Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said China is steering buyers toward domestic chips.
London startup Fractile raised a $220 million Series B led by Accel, Factorial Funds and Founders Fund to attack the inference bottleneck with a memory-centric chip design.
Recursive Superintelligence emerged with a $650 million round and a $4.65 billion valuation to pursue recursive self-improvement rather than a conventional product roadmap.
The first Nvidia advanced AI chips have reached Abu Dhabi, turning a Gulf export-control debate into physical delivery.
Nvidia has poured roughly $40 billion into AI companies this year, raising a harder question for investors: chip demand, or a self-reinforcing financing loop?
Nvidia is tying itself to Corning as AI data centers move from copper cabling to optical links, funding new U.S. plants and taking warrant-based upside.
Project Arc combines NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 models, OpenShell runtime and ServiceNow workflows to make desktop agents auditable for enterprise IT.
DeepInfra's Series B signals that independent inference infrastructure for open models and agent workloads is becoming its own layer.
OpenAI falling short of its 1 billion-user target has raised new questions about future AI compute spending.
At Google Cloud Next, Sundar Pichai unveiled the eighth-generation TPU — not one chip, but two: the TPU 8t for training and the TPU 8i for inference, marking a strategic bet on specialized AI hardware.
OpenAI commits over $20 billion to Cerebras for AI compute, with equity warrants and a $1 billion data center fund, as the battle shifts from training to inference. Nvidia counters by acquiring Groq for $20 billion.
At GTC 2026, Nvidia launched the Agent Toolkit, an open-source framework for building autonomous AI agents, with 17 major enterprise software companies including Adobe, Salesforce, and SAP adopting the platform.
Cerebras Systems is targeting a Nasdaq IPO in the second quarter of 2026, aiming to raise $2 billion at a valuation between $22 billion and $25 billion. If successful, it would be the first pure-play AI chip alternative to Nvidia's GPU monopoly to go public.