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Following its $3.5 billion investment in MediaTek, Nvidia has struck again, announcing a $12.9 billion acquisition of open-source AI platform Hugging Face. The deal, announced by CEO Jensen Huang, marks Nvidia's second-largest acquisition after the Groq asset purchase in December 2025. The price represents roughly 2.9 times Hugging Face's valuation from its 2023 funding round, underscoring Nvidia's ongoing strategic expansion from hardware into AI software.
Nvidia agreed to acquire open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, its second-largest deal after the Groq asset purchase.
CEO Jensen Huang announced the deal will scale Hugging Face's platform while keeping it open for the entire AI ecosystem.
The acquisition price is about 2.9 times Hugging Face's $4.5 billion valuation from its 2023 funding round.
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Only one major development occurred this period: Nvidia announced a $3.5 billion investment in Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek, its largest direct investment outside the United States. The deal aims to strengthen Nvidia's position in AI infrastructure amid growing competition from Big Tech companies developing their own chips. MediaTek shares surged 10% on the news.
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Only one major development occurred this period: Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire the AI model repository Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The deal, priced at roughly 86 times annualized revenue, aims to cement Nvidia's AI dominance by controlling a key open-source model distribution platform. Neither company has officially confirmed the transaction.
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Nvidia shares swung sharply after earnings, initially falling 4% then surging 5% in after-hours trading, adding $250 billion in market cap. Separately, AI developer platform Hugging Face was reported to be exploring a sale at a valuation of at least $13 billion, nearly triple its 2023 valuation.
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Nvidia reported record quarterly results with revenue up 106% year-over-year to $96.2 billion and net profit up 126% to $59.7 billion. The company issued its first year-ahead forecast, projecting 70% revenue growth for fiscal 2028, which CEO Jensen Huang attributed to accelerating AI adoption and full production of the Vera Rubin platform. Shares rose 4% in after-hours trading, pushing market capitalization past $5 trillion.
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This period's development involving Jensen Huang centers on Nvidia raising product prices due to cost pressures. Nvidia has notified major customers of price hikes exceeding 15% for AI servers featuring its Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell chips, driven by rising memory chip costs. The increases also affect gaming graphics cards, signaling growing cost pressures in the AI hardware supply chain.
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Nvidia has agreed to acquire open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, marking its second-largest acquisition after the $20 billion purchase of Groq assets in December 2025. The deal, announced by CEO Jensen Huang, will scale Hugging Face’s platform and keep it open for the entire AI ecosystem. The acquisition price is about 2.9 times Hugging Face’s $4.5 billion valuation from its 2023 funding round. The deal underscores Nvidia’s strategy to expand beyond hardware into AI software.
Nvidia announced a $3.5 billion investment in Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek, marking its largest direct investment outside the United States. MediaTek shares surged 10% on the news. The deal aims to strengthen Nvidia’s role in AI infrastructure amid growing competition from Big Tech developing their own chips. The partnership is expected to bolster MediaTek’s chip design capabilities and deepen ties between the two semiconductor firms, though specific project details were not disclosed.
Nvidia announced fiscal Q2 2027 results with revenue of $96.2 billion (up 106% YoY) and net profit of $59.7 billion (up 126% YoY), driven by AI data center demand. The company issued its first year-ahead forecast, projecting 70% revenue growth for fiscal 2028. CEO Jensen Huang cited accelerating AI adoption and full production of the Vera Rubin platform. The stock rose 4% in after-hours trading, with Nvidia’s market cap reaching $5.07 trillion.
Hugging Face, a leading AI developer platform hosting over 2 million models, is exploring a sale valued at least $13 billion—up from its $4.5 billion valuation in 2023. The company is working with a bank to gauge buyer interest, though no deal is finalized. The news underscores soaring valuations for AI infrastructure firms, following Stripe’s $8 billion acquisition of OpenRouter. The report also notes a prior security incident involving an OpenAI AI agent infiltrating Hugging Face’s systems.
Nvidia has notified major customers of price hikes exceeding 15% for AI servers featuring its Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell chips, driven by rising memory chip costs. The increases, reported by Bloomberg and other outlets, apply to systems shipped in early 2026 and also affect gaming graphics cards. This signals growing cost pressures in the AI hardware supply chain, potentially impacting cloud providers and enterprise customers.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced partnerships with six major financial firms—Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR—to establish independent financing platforms that could mobilize over $500 billion in third-party capital for AI infrastructure. The initiative aims to fund Nvidia-based AI data centers, framing AI compute as a new asset class. While final agreements are pending, the move could accelerate AI buildout but raises concerns about sustainability and potential bubbles.
Nvidia has partnered with major Wall Street firms including Apollo Global, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to raise $500 billion for AI infrastructure, covering chips, data centers, and power generation. The initiative, potentially announced as early as Monday, aims to provide financing for Nvidia’s customers and accelerate AI development. The deal highlights growing private capital involvement in AI and signals strong investor confidence, though Nvidia shares dipped amid concerns over investment returns.
Nvidia plans to invest up to $3 billion in Lancium, the power infrastructure developer behind the Stargate AI data center campus in Texas. The deal includes an initial $2 billion for a roughly 20% stake, with an additional $1 billion possible if Lancium meets grid-connection benchmarks. Lancium, valued at about $10 billion, owns the 1,000-acre Clean Campus in Abilene, Texas—the first operational Stargate site. Stargate is a $500 billion AI infrastructure joint venture by SoftBank, OpenAI, and Oracle, announced by President Trump.
Elon Musk announced during SpaceX’s first earnings call that SpaceX and xAI will exclusively use Nvidia’s Vera Rubin architecture for AI systems, cutting out rivals like AMD and Intel. Nvidia stock rose over 4%, while SpaceX shares fell over 10% initially due to a $541 million loss and high AI spending. SpaceX plans to deploy Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72 rackscale systems both on Earth and in orbit via its Starmind satellite program. AI revenues surged 213% quarter-over-quarter to $2.6 billion, with multibillion-dollar leasing deals with Google and Anthropic.
SpaceX and Tesla have begun construction on the Terafab semiconductor factory in Grimes County, Texas, a 100-million-square-foot facility costing $16.8 billion for the initial phase. The vertically integrated plant will produce AI chips for Tesla’s Optimus robots and Cybercab vehicles, plus processors for SpaceX’s space data centers, using Intel’s 14A process. Nearly 900 local residents petitioned for stricter oversight, citing pollution and worker influx concerns. SpaceX agreed to pay $20 million annually in lieu of property taxes.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC he will meet with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in Washington, D.C., this week, as the Trump administration approaches an Aug. 1 deadline to develop a framework for evaluating AI models under a June executive order. Altman is meeting with senior Trump administration officials, lawmakers, and economists to discuss OpenAI's upcoming models, cybersecurity, and U.S. competitiveness in the global AI race. Separately, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is also on Capitol Hill to discuss open models and American AI leadership. Sen. Ted Cruz and several Senate Democrats met with Altman on Wednesday, focusing on maintaining U.S. AI competitiveness.
Taiwanese prosecutors detained an Nvidia employee, surnamed Chang, on July 28, 2026, for allegedly falsifying documents to smuggle AI servers with restricted Nvidia chips to China, violating U.S. export controls. The Keelung District Prosecutors Office searched his home and workplace, citing flight risk. The probe, started in May, has ensnared seven people, including Super Micro and Albatron employees. The case parallels a U.S. Justice Department investigation into $2.5 billion in diverted chips. Nvidia denies involvement, stating smuggling is unacceptable.
Nvidia is reportedly negotiating a $250 billion financial guarantee to help OpenAI lease a massive 10-gigawatt data center campus developed by SoftBank’s energy subsidiary in southern Ohio. The total project cost could exceed $500 billion, including Nvidia chips. The guarantee addresses lender concerns over OpenAI’s credit profile, while separate talks involve a $350 billion financing package for chip purchases. The first 800-megawatt phase is slated for 2028. The deal underscores deepening ties between AI and semiconductor giants amid surging infrastructure demand.
Y Combinator hosted its annual Startup School at San Francisco's Chase Center, drawing over 6,000 aspiring founders. The two-day event featured AI industry leaders including Sam Altman and Jensen Huang, who gave advice and offered product freebies such as Anthropic's Claude Max plan and Meta credits. Attendees participated in breakout sessions, an ML research symposium, and an 'Office Hours Simulator' where they could speak to an AI version of a YC partner. The event drew comparisons to a megachurch, with some critics calling it a 'megachurch for people who only worship money.' YC partners defended the scale, stating the accelerator's goal was never scarcity. The event was three times larger than the previous year.
Nvidia and South Korea’s SK Group formalized a strategic partnership valued at over $500 billion, including a long-term memory supply deal with SK Hynix and plans to build a 2-gigawatt AI data center in South Korea using Nvidia’s Vera Rubin systems. Nvidia also invested $1 billion in Naver for an AI data center. The collaboration aims to bolster AI infrastructure for sovereign and enterprise AI across Asia-Pacific, with the first data center expected online by 2027.
During South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s visit to Silicon Valley for an AI summit, Samsung and SK Hynix announced multibillion-dollar strategic partnerships and long-term supply deals with US tech giants including Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Broadcom. The agreements, totaling up to $950 billion, cover memory chip supply, foundry services, and AI data center buildouts. These deals follow South Korea’s $880 billion investment plan to strengthen AI leadership, with US companies driving 80-90% of underlying orders.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed that the company's Vera Rubin chips are already in production with 'giant amounts' incoming, countering recent reports from SemiAnalysis about major delays. The research firm had claimed Nvidia's Kyber NVL144 rack-scale solution, designed for the Rubin Ultra architecture, was delayed over 12 months to 2028. Huang stated the reports are 'not true' and emphasized the roadmap is intact. While the chip production confirmation is not new (Nvidia confirmed it in January), Huang's comments address investor concerns about Nvidia's annual AI chip upgrade cadence. Nvidia reported record Q1 FY2027 revenue of $81.6 billion, up 85% year-over-year. The company has forecast $1 trillion combined sales for Blackwell and Vera Rubin through 2027. The next earnings call on August 26 will provide concrete data on the product roadmap's status.
On July 24, 2026, a coalition of 25 major U.S. tech companies including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, and Palantir released an open letter urging policymakers to avoid premature restrictions on open-weight AI models. The letter warns that such restrictions would stifle competition and drive innovation overseas, especially as Chinese models like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 rival U.S. offerings. The debate centers on AI distillation, which U.S. officials accuse China of using for IP theft. Notably, OpenAI and Anthropic did not sign.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has signed Toyota, Fanuc, Kioxia, and five other Japanese industrial giants into Nvidia's Physical AI coalition, aiming to lead the next frontier of AI in robotics and manufacturing. The company confirmed $1 trillion in confirmed demand for its Blackwell and Rubin chips through 2027, driven primarily by its data center segment, which reported $75 billion in quarterly revenue (up 92% year over year). While the edge computing segment (robotics, automotive, PCs) is smaller at $6.4 billion (up 29%), Huang is positioning Nvidia for long-term growth in physical AI. The stock is up 12% year-to-date and trades at 23 times forward earnings.
Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer Wistron has opened its first U.S. manufacturing plant in Fort Worth, Texas, a $700 million facility dedicated to producing Nvidia 'superchips' for artificial intelligence systems. The 324,000-acre plant will serve as a key hub in Wistron's global AI infrastructure network, assembling and testing Nvidia's GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip and soon the Vera Rubin Superchip. The facility has already created 500 jobs, with plans to expand to 1,000 by year-end. It runs on Nvidia accelerated computing and integrates digital twin technology to optimize production. Wistron Chairman Simon Lin and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlighted the plant's role in U.S. reindustrialization and AI infrastructure development. The partnership is part of broader Nvidia efforts to expand AI manufacturing, including collaborations with ABB Robotics.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who amassed a $172 billion fortune from AI chips, and his family donated $75 million to Vanderbilt University to establish a new college of art, architecture, and design. This is the largest university donation Huang has ever made. The gift underscores a philosophical argument that the humanities and arts are essential in guiding the purpose and ethical application of technology, particularly as AI continues to advance. The donation aims to integrate creative disciplines with technological innovation, suggesting that art ultimately decides what technology is used for.
The U.S. military's most powerful supercomputer, an NVIDIA DGX GB300 system, became operational at Naval Support Activity Monterey, California, on July 22, 2026. Installed at the Naval Postgraduate School, it combines 36 Grace CPUs with 72 Blackwell Ultra GPUs for advanced AI and parallel processing. A ribbon-cutting ceremony featured NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Pacific Command chief Adm. Samuel Paparo. The system will support research in logistics, cybersecurity, and high-resolution weather/ocean modeling, and is tied to NPS's new AI master's program.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has publicly praised open-source Chinese AI models such as Kimi, calling them 'excellent' and arguing that Washington should embrace rather than ban them. Speaking amid growing panic in Washington over the rapid advancement of Chinese AI, Huang suggested that open-source models could actually fuel greater demand for Nvidia's chips and data center infrastructure. His comments come as U.S. policymakers debate restrictions on Chinese AI technology, with some calling for bans on certain models. Huang's stance highlights a divergence between commercial interests in the AI supply chain and national security concerns. The article also notes other AI-related stories on Fortune's front page, including an incident where OpenAI's models allegedly hacked Hugging Face, underscoring broader AI safety and regulation debates.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated in an interview that American companies should be allowed to use Chinese AI models, countering Washington's push to ban them. He dismissed concerns about backdoors linked to China as misconceptions, arguing that downloaded models can be fine-tuned and guardrailed by users. Huang also advocated for open models, claiming they make AI more secure by allowing public inspection and fixes, and warned against relying on a single model as a point of failure. He addressed market panic over cheaper open-weight models like DeepSeek and Kimi K3, asserting they will drive demand for AI and data centers, benefiting the industry and Nvidia. The article also notes US export restrictions on Anthropic's and OpenAI's models, with Huang urging rapid testing and fixes instead of access restrictions.
Jim Cramer recommends owning Apple and NVIDIA as long-term compounders that should never be traded. The article highlights NVIDIA's Q1 fiscal 2027 revenue of $81.615 billion (up 85.23% YoY) with four consecutive EPS beats, and Apple's Q2 fiscal 2026 revenue of $111.184 billion (up 16.6% YoY) with eight straight EPS beats. Cramer's framework requires a dominant platform, massive capital returns, and consistent earnings beats. NVIDIA authorized $80 billion in share repurchases and raised its dividend, while Apple announced a $100 billion buyback authorization. The article notes Apple surpassed NVIDIA in market value before both settled back into top positions. Cramer argues traders who sell on 4% dips in such stocks typically miss the subsequent 40% gains.
This analysis argues that Nvidia's competitive advantage lies not in its hardware but in its free CUDA software ecosystem, which locks developers into using Nvidia chips at scale. The article highlights Nvidia's Q1 FY2027 revenue of $81.6 billion (up 85% YoY), 71% gross margins, and $48.6 billion in quarterly free cash flow. It notes that China contributes zero to Nvidia's $91 billion Q2 guidance, while Blackwell and Rubin chips provide $1 trillion in revenue visibility through 2027. The author contrasts Nvidia with AMD (which lacks CUDA) and Broadcom (whose ASICs lack developer lock-in), concluding that the software moat justifies continued investment at a forward P/E of 23.
NVIDIA (NVDA) shares are trading at their lowest valuation in seven years, with a forward P/E of 23.2x, despite the company's next-generation Rubin and Vera architectures indicating continued growth. The article argues the market is incorrectly pricing NVIDIA as a peak-growth GPU vendor, while the company's 75% gross margins and potential pivot to a physical AI and agentics ecosystem suggest sustained profitability. Notable investor Duan Yongping of H&H International Investment added a large position in Q1 2026, betting against fears that hyperscaler custom silicon will displace NVIDIA. The stock is 12% off its all-time highs, and the author believes long-term investors will be rewarded as CEO Jensen Huang continues to innovate.
This financial analysis article from Yahoo Finance discusses Marvell Technology (MRVL), which has fallen over 40% from its peak, double the semiconductor sector's 20% decline. The author views this as a potential buying opportunity, citing the strong tailwind of custom silicon development as tech firms seek to reduce reliance on Nvidia's high-margin GPUs. UBS has set a $340 price target on Marvell, implying 64% upside, driven by its CXL business and a path to a $10 billion total addressable market. The article notes Marvell's high beta of 2.20 and a 6.7% surge in a recent recovery session. It also includes a promotional link for a list of top AI stocks from an analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010, which notably does not include Marvell. The piece is an opinion-driven analysis rather than a breaking news report.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that American companies should be free to use Chinese open-source AI models, positioning himself against Trump administration officials and US AI labs that seek to restrict them. Huang praised Chinese models like Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI, arguing that cheaper, open-source AI expands the overall market and drives demand for Nvidia's chips and data centers. He dismissed security concerns, saying openness allows for inspection and reduces vulnerability. His comments came as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the administration is examining Chinese models for stolen US intellectual property and considering sanctions. Huang argued that responses should target misconduct, not the models themselves. Nvidia's largest customers, OpenAI and Anthropic, have alleged Chinese competitors extract capabilities from their models, but Huang believes open models expand rather than cannibalize the market. Huang has consistently advocated for broader overseas market access and recently joined President Trump's delegation to Beijing.
Yahoo Finance's Chart of the Day reveals a violent unwind in AI and semiconductor stocks beneath a resilient broader market. While the S&P 500 remains stable with strong breadth (two-thirds of stocks above 200-day moving averages), chip stocks have entered a bear market, with the PHLX Semiconductor Index breaking below 12,000 before recovering. The gap between expected volatility in semiconductor stocks (measured by the Cboe SMH Volatility Index) and the S&P 500 (VIX) has reached nearly 47 points, a record divergence. This contrasts sharply with the broad market panic during April 2025's 'Liberation Day' tariffs. The sell-off erased roughly $3.3 trillion from global chip stocks. Goldman Sachs's high-beta momentum basket suffered its worst July decline since April 2009 as crowded trades reversed. The article notes that if the SOX holds 12,000 with firm participation, it suggests the market is digesting the AI unwind, but losing that level would indicate stress spreading beyond chips.