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Nvidia announced this period that it will acquire open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, its second-largest deal after the purchase of Groq assets in December 2025. CEO Jensen Huang stated the acquisition will scale Hugging Face's platform while keeping it open for the entire AI ecosystem. The move underscores Nvidia's strategy to expand beyond hardware into AI software.
Nvidia agreed to acquire open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, roughly 2.9 times its 2023 valuation.
CEO Jensen Huang announced the deal will keep the platform open for the AI ecosystem while scaling its operations.
This marks Nvidia's second-largest acquisition after the $20 billion purchase of Groq assets in December 2025.
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Nvidia's AI server demand received further validation this period through Dell's earnings report. Dell booked a record $60.9 billion in AI server orders and significantly raised its full-year guidance, sending shares up as much as 10% in after-hours trading. This strong performance indirectly reflects sustained robust demand for Nvidia's chips.
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Nvidia reinforced its central role in AI infrastructure through several major deals and investments this period. Anthropic finalized a $35 billion cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda, while SB Energy's IPO filing revealed a $3 billion commitment from Nvidia. The company also invested $3.5 billion in MediaTek to deepen chip collaboration, though proposed US export rules targeting indirect access to its chips pose a potential headwind.
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OpenAI unveiled its custom AI inference chip "Jalapeño," developed with Broadcom, at the Hot Chips conference, directly challenging Nvidia's flagship offerings. The chip demonstrated significant advantages in energy efficiency and latency, though the comparison did not include Nvidia's upcoming Rubin platform. Analysts see potential pressure on Nvidia's margins, but OpenAI will continue to rely on Nvidia chips for model training.
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Nvidia was the subject of two major developments on August 28. The company reportedly agreed to acquire the open-source AI model platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, aiming to solidify its AI dominance by controlling a key distribution channel, though the deal remains unconfirmed by either party. Separately, a leaked pre-release build of Nvidia's DLSS 5 technology was modded into several games, with early tests showing a significant performance drop and sparking controversy; Nvidia has not officially commented.
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Amazon tripled its Nvidia GPU order, planning to add 2 million chips—including Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra models—to AWS data centers in 2027-2028. The deal, worth tens of billions of dollars, represents a significant increase from a prior order of 1 million GPUs, driven by surging AI computing demand. Despite Amazon's parallel development of its own Trainium chips, the partnership underscores Nvidia's near-term dominance in AI infrastructure. Nvidia also delivered its first Vera CPU and Rubin GPU to AWS in Seattle.
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Chinese AI company DeepSeek announced plans to deploy at least 160,000 of Huawei's next-generation AI chips, including the 950DT model scheduled for Q4 2026, at a gigawatt-scale data center in Inner Mongolia. The cluster would be the largest known Huawei AI chip deployment, shifting inference workloads to Chinese-made silicon while still using Nvidia for demanding training tasks. This move supports China's semiconductor self-sufficiency amid US export restrictions.
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.
A leaked, pre-release build of NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 technology has been obtained and modded into games like *Skyrim* and *Control* by the modding community. Early tests on an RTX 5070 Ti at 4K showed a dramatic frame rate drop from 71 to 35 FPS, indicating instability or lack of optimization. Modders have also patched the DLL to work on RTX 4000 series GPUs. The leak has sparked widespread experimentation and controversy, though NVIDIA has not officially commented.
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.
Dell Technologies reported fiscal second-quarter results far exceeding expectations, with adjusted EPS of $7.04 versus $4.92 consensus and revenue of $46.97 billion, up 58% year-over-year. The company booked a record $60.9 billion in AI server orders and raised full-year guidance to $25.50 EPS on $192 billion revenue. Shares surged up to 10% in after-hours trading, adding to a 236% year-to-date gain.
Anthropic has finalized a $35 billion cloud computing deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda to secure GPU capacity in Texas. Infrastructure firm Hut 8 will build the Nueces County facility, while Nvidia holds the underlying lease. The deal, one of the largest known AI cloud contracts, underscores surging demand for compute infrastructure. Separately, Anthropic also signed a $45 billion deal with Nscale for capacity in West Virginia, bringing its total reported cloud commitments to $80 billion.
SB Energy, a SoftBank-majority-owned AI infrastructure firm, filed for an IPO on Nasdaq under ticker SBE, seeking to raise $5-7 billion. The filing revealed OpenAI received stock warrants valued at $5.5 billion and invested $500 million, while Nvidia committed $3 billion. SB Energy holds a $439 billion contracted backlog and 8.8 gigawatts of data-center capacity, but has no operational data centers and reported a $3.2 billion net loss in H1 2026.
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.
SLB, the world's largest oilfield services company, agreed to acquire German thermal management company Kelvion from Apollo Global Management and Triton for $4.1 billion, including $700 million in assumed debt. The deal, expected to close in the first half of 2027, targets the rapidly growing AI data center cooling market. SLB projects its combined data center businesses will generate $4.5-$5 billion in revenue by 2028.
The Trump administration is developing new rules to close a loophole that lets Chinese AI labs remotely access advanced Nvidia chips hosted in overseas data centers, particularly in Thailand, bypassing direct export controls. This escalation in US-China tech competition targets indirect access methods and could impact Nvidia sales and cloud provider compliance costs.
Broadcom is negotiating with lenders, including Blackstone and Apollo Global Management, to raise between $60 billion and $80 billion in debt through a special-purpose vehicle. The financing, which could total up to $100 billion, will fund AI chip infrastructure for companies like Anthropic. This follows a $35 billion deal in June and reflects a broader trend of tech giants using debt markets to finance massive AI investments, with hyperscalers like Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft planning elevated spending through 2026.
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.
Marvell Technology granted Alphabet (Google) a warrant to buy up to $12.18 billion in shares, tied to Google’s purchases of custom AI chips through fiscal 2033. The partnership covers AI inference accelerators, storage, and networking hardware for Google’s TPU ecosystem. Marvell shares surged over 11%, while Broadcom—Google’s longtime custom chip partner—fell up to 5%. The deal reflects Big Tech’s push to diversify custom silicon suppliers amid a planned $700 billion AI infrastructure spending surge.
CoreWeave reported Q2 2026 revenue of $2.58 billion, doubling year-over-year, driven by surging AI infrastructure demand. The company posted a net loss of $626 million but saw its revenue backlog hit $104 billion. It raised 2026 capex to $35–$39 billion and secured major deals with Meta, Anthropic, and Jane Street. Shares rose over 18% in premarket trading. The company faces execution challenges with 3.7 GW contracted power but only 1.5 GW active.
SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics unveiled massive shareholder return programs totaling over $100 billion, driven by record profits from AI-related memory chip demand. SK Hynix announced a $28.7 billion stock buyback and cancellation plan, while Samsung is set to announce a $72 billion program. The moves aim to reward investors and stabilize stocks amid market concerns over AI spending sustainability. Shares surged in Seoul, with SK Hynix rising over 12% and Samsung gaining 8.69%.
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 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.
Micron Technology unveiled Micron Research Labs, a $10 billion research institution in Boise, Idaho, focused on next-generation memory, AI, and semiconductor technologies. Construction begins in 2027, housing hundreds of researchers. The lab will collaborate with universities like Stanford and UT Austin, and partners including Nvidia and Apple. This investment is separate from Micron’s $250 billion U.S. manufacturing plan. The initiative aims to strengthen U.S. semiconductor independence and meet AI-driven memory demand, with support from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
SpaceX finalized its $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor, an AI coding platform, on August 14, 2026. The deal integrates Cursor’s enterprise user base and developer data with SpaceX’s Colossus supercomputer to enhance Grok AI models. Cursor gains access to massive computing power, while SpaceX expands beyond aerospace into AI. The acquisition is the second-largest venture-backed deal ever, following SpaceX’s earlier $250 billion xAI takeover.
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.
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.
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.
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, signed a $9.1 billion, 20-year data center lease with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms at its Rockdale, Texas campus, securing 191 megawatts of computing capacity. The deal, with potential extensions up to $16.1 billion, marks Riot’s pivot from crypto mining to AI infrastructure. Capacity will be delivered by 2028, with Morgan Stanley providing $573 million in interim financing. Riot’s stock surged over 25% on the news.
SK Hynix announced a 54 trillion won ($38 billion) investment to build two new memory chip fabrication plants in South Korea—a DRAM/HBM facility in Yongin (Y2) and a NAND plant in Cheongju (M17)—to meet surging AI-driven demand for high-bandwidth memory. Construction begins in 2027, with first cleanrooms opening in 2028-2029. The investment addresses supply shortages and positions SK Hynix as a key supplier to Nvidia, amid record quarterly revenue and rising memory prices.
AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems saw its stock drop 16-20% after reporting Q2 2026 revenue of $180.11 million, missing analyst estimates of $194.23 million. Despite a 74% year-over-year revenue increase and raised full-year guidance to $880-890 million, investors punished the miss amid high AI stock valuations. The company swung to a net loss of $450.53 million due to IPO-related stock compensation, while transitioning from hardware sales to cloud services, with cloud revenue surging 281%. Cerebras reiterated its $20 billion deal with OpenAI and plans to unveil its next-generation chip on August 18.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the release of the open-weight Muse Glimmer AI model for laptops and plans to open-source its most powerful model, Muse Spark 1.2. In a coordinated media blitz, Zuckerberg urged US policymakers to support open-source AI to counter Chinese rivals like DeepSeek and Moonshot, while criticizing closed-model competitors OpenAI and Anthropic. The move aims to democratize AI, reassure investors amid massive capital expenditures, and position Meta as a leader in the global AI race.
AI companies, notably Anthropic, are destroying millions of rare and second-hand books to train large language models. Antiquarian booksellers in the UK and Europe received suspicious bulk orders for obscure titles. Court documents reveal Anthropic’s ‘Project Panama’ involved buying books, slicing off spines with industrial cutters, scanning pages, and recycling the rest. The practice raises copyright concerns, with publishers and authors calling for stronger regulation. Legal battles against Meta, Nvidia, and Anthropic are ongoing.
Intel announced a $15 billion stock offering on August 10, 2026, to fund AI chip growth, capital expenditures, and working capital. The offering was later upsized to $20 billion after institutional orders exceeded $100 billion, with major backers including the U.S. government, Nvidia, and SoftBank. Intel's stock initially fell 5% on dilution concerns but remains up 175% year-to-date. The company secured Tesla as a foundry customer and raised its 2026 capital spending target to $20 billion.
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.
On August 6, 2026, AMD announced the acquisition of Toronto-based startup Taalas, which specializes in AI inference chips hardwired for single models, offering faster speeds and lower power consumption than general-purpose GPUs. The deal, terms undisclosed, aims to strengthen AMD’s AI portfolio against Nvidia, which recently acquired Groq for $20 billion. Taalas’ technology will be integrated into AMD’s Instinct GPUs and Helios rack-scale systems, targeting low-latency applications.