The chipmaker’s credit-default swaps had spiked to a record on fears of circular financing. They eased once Jensen Huang recast the plan as other people’s money, with Nvidia’s own exposure capped. After weeks in which the cost of insuring its debt clim…
A multi-year deal with the startup Together AI will put Nvidia Blackwell systems on IBM Cloud, and the wager is that enterprises now care more about the cost of running AI than the prestige of the model doing the running. IBM has decided that the money…
Nvidia said on Monday it would partner with six of the largest names in private capital to finance AI infrastructure through vehicles worth more than $500 billion. Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR are all in. The compa…
River AI has raised $1.1bn, roughly four months after the company was incorporated. General Catalyst and AMP PBC led the round, with strategic investment from NVIDIA and AMD Ventures, and further money from Y Combinator and Temasek. The Palo Alto compa…
Nvidia has recruited six of the largest names in finance to help turn its chips into something a bank can lend against. The company announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to build what it calls “com…
A group of financial firms is working with Nvidia on a $500bn funding package for AI infrastructure. The group covers Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs and KKR. …
Lambda is selling a $917 million leveraged loan to finance a chip purchase, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Jeannine Amodeo, Paula Seligson and Gowri Gurumurthy broke the story. The money pays for GPUs and other infrastructure as part of a contract with …
Firebird, a US-based AI cloud company, opened what NVIDIA calls the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia on Saturday. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended, alongside Kazakhstan’s deputy prime minister Zhaslan Madiyev and Davi…
You can read Nvidia’s philosophy in a job advert. The chipmaker is assembling a new AI safety and security engineering team, Business Insider reported. A cluster of listings posted late last month gives it away. The pitch is not caution about what AI m…
Asus and Gigabyte have raised prices across their entire Nvidia RTX 50-series and AMD Radeon RX 9000 GPU lineups, the second round of increases this year. The biggest hit lands on the RTX 5090D V2, which received channel price increases of $592 from Gi…