Nvidia Places Huge $12.9 Billion Bet to Defend Its AI Empire
This time Nvidia isn't wagering on chips — the company has a pending deal to acquire Hugging Face. Source: thestreet.com
AI chips, GPUs, data centers, cloud compute, and the hardware powering the AI revolution.
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This time Nvidia isn't wagering on chips — the company has a pending deal to acquire Hugging Face. Source: thestreet.com
Washington blacklisted Inspur over its ties to the Chinese military, yet the company's subsidiary continued receiving Nvidia's top-tier chips. Source: nytimes.com
According to CNBC, Nvidia's Groq 3 LPX rack has entered full production and will roll out alongside its Vera CPUs and Rubin GPUs later this year. Source: finance.yahoo.com
NVIDIA's reported $12.93 billion deal with Hugging Face points to a broader move in enterprise AI toward open-source models, customization and tighter control over AI infrastructure. The deal suggests companies increasingly want flexibility rather than relying solely on closed AI systems. Source: t2conline.com
NVIDIA held its GTC event, where the company typically unveils new hardware, software and AI platform announcements. Source: nvidia.com
At IFA 2026 in Berlin, AMD unveiled the Threadripper Halo Station, a workstation built to run AI models with over one trillion parameters locally. The system targets researchers and developers who want to work with massive models without relying on cloud infrastructure. Source: finance.biggo.com
Executives at the Abu Dhabi-based AI firm G42 have reportedly held early talks about selling a majority stake to US companies. The move would be aimed at ensuring continued access to advanced AI chips amid tightening export controls. Source: bloomberg.com
Broadcom posted solid third-quarter earnings on Wednesday, with the stock trading unevenly despite strong growth in AI chip sales. The company's outlook highlighted continued momentum in its AI-related chip business. Source: barrons.com
Shares of KLA and Lam Research jumped 7.3% and 5.1% respectively on September 4, easily outperforming Nvidia's modest 0.8% gain. Neither company makes AI accelerators, suggesting investors may be spreading their AI bets beyond chipmakers. Source: finance.yahoo.com
AI infrastructure startup Nscale, backed by Nvidia, announced it has secured $103 billion worth of contracted revenue. The figure underscores the massive scale of current spending commitments in the AI infrastructure race. Source: thestreet.com
Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face, deepening its push to control the broader AI ecosystem beyond chips. The deal places Nvidia at the heart of the open-source AI development community. Source: axios.com
Nvidia now holds $99 billion worth of equity investments as it backs AI labs, cloud providers, and infrastructure companies across the industry. The chipmaker has become one of the sector's most influential financial backers. Source: cnbc.com
DeepSeek is said to be planning to deploy at least 160,000 of Huawei's top AI accelerators for a massive new data center in Inner Mongolia. The move would mark a major bet on domestic Chinese chip supply. Source: bloomberg.com
SB Energy, an AI infrastructure platform majority-owned by SoftBank, has filed for an initial public offering. Nvidia is among its key backers. Source: wsj.com
Nvidia's acquisition gives it a foothold in what analysts call "one of the most important pieces of real estate in AI," while the company insists it will keep supporting open-source development. The deal marks a major expansion of Nvidia's reach beyond hardware into the AI software ecosystem. Source: marketwatch.com
Nvidia announced on Thursday it is acquiring Hugging Face, a repository of open AI models, for $12.9 billion. The move extends the chipmaker's ambitions beyond hardware into the software layer of the AI industry. Source: nytimes.com
Nvidia said Thursday it will acquire AI startup Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, in one of its biggest bets yet to broaden its footprint across the AI industry. Hugging Face had previously been the target of a hacking attempt linked to OpenAI. Source: cnn.com
According to CNBC, Hugging Face initiated contact with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang weeks before the acquisition was finalized. Huang said the deal will help Nvidia "expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide." Source: cnbc.com
Nvidia is acquiring the AI developer platform Hugging Face in a deal valued at nearly $13 billion. CEO Jensen Huang stressed that Hugging Face will remain open to the entire AI ecosystem, with no requirement to use Nvidia hardware to build or deploy on it. Source: aa.com.tr
Nvidia confirmed that Lenovo and Acer will release the first Windows PCs built around its RTX Spark chip starting in October. The launch is part of Nvidia's broader effort to bring AI computing power into consumer desktop machines. Source: reuters.com