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Tuesday • September 23, 2025
Nvidia to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI, linking two artificial intelligence titans
Nvidia Will Invest Up To $100 Billion in OpenAI and Supply It with Data Center Chips
The move underscores the increasingly overlapping interests of the various tech giants developing advanced AI systems. The deal gives chipmaker Nvidia a financial stake in the world’s most prominent AI company, which is already an important customer.
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Monday • July 28, 2025
Tesla, Samsung Sign $16.5 Billion Deal to Make AI Chips
Chips will be Designed for AI Data Centers, Autonomous Driving and Robots; Shares in South Korean Tech Giant Surge
Samsung Electronics will manufacture artificial-intelligence chips for Tesla in Texas under a $16.5 billion multiyear deal, a major win for its U.S. foundry business that sent shares of South Korea’s largest company sharply higher.
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Tuesday • July 8, 2025
IBM rolls out new chips and servers, aims for simplified AI
IBM Introduced Its New Power11 Chips on Tuesday, Marking Its First Major Update to Its “Power” Line of Chips Since 2020
International Business Machines on Tuesday announced a new line of data center chips and servers that it says will be more power-efficient than rivals and will simplify the process of rolling out artificial intelligence in business operations.
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Wednesday • June 11, 2025
Nvidia and Perplexity Team Up in European AI Push
The Chip Giant and AI Search Startup Are Offering Specialized AI Models for European Users, Aiming to Widen Their Reach in the Region
Nvidia and Perplexity are partnering to offer what they call localized and sovereign artificial intelligence models to their users in Europe, the companies said Wednesday.
The chip titan is working with local European partners, including the French AI firm H Company, to build open-source, sovereign AI models that will be offered through AI search startup Perplexity’s platform.
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Wednesday • May 28, 2025
AI Firm Chalk Valued at $500 Million After Raising $50 Million
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Infrastructure Firm Chalk is Halfway to Being a Billion-Dollar Company
The startup announced Wednesday (May 28) that it had raised $50 million in a Series A round, valuing the company at $500 million.
“This funding marks a huge milestone and a powerful validation of our vision for real-time AI infrastructure,” Marc Freed-Finnegan, Chalk’s co-founder/CEO, wrote on the company blog. “When we started Chalk, we knew real-time inference was critical for FinTech. Over the years, we’ve discovered that its importance extends far beyond FinTech — to identity verification, fraud prevention, healthcare and eCommerce.”
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Thursday • January 9, 2025
Nvidia unveils next-gen AI and industrial digitalization capabilities at Microsoft Ignite
Nvidia Blackwell Empowers Next-Gen AI on Microsoft Azure
At the recent Microsoft Ignite conference, Nvidia and Microsoft unveiled innovations that will power the next wave of generative AI from cloud to PCs and fuel a new era of industrial AI.
These announcements span across the full-stack including next-gen AI infrastructure powered by Nvidia Blackwell, new Omniverse workflows for digital twins and visual generative AI, and tools to enable Windows developers to build and optimize AI-powered apps on RTX AI PCs.