Father-son startup Nyne raises $5.3M in seed funding to build an AI intelligence layer that analyzes public digital footprints across platforms like Instagram and Strava, helping businesses better understand customer behaviors as autonomous AI agents increasingly make purchasing decisions on consumers' behalf.
Nvidia commits $26 billion over five years to develop open-weight AI models, positioning itself as a direct competitor to OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek in a major strategic shift beyond its dominant role in chip manufacturing.
Nvidia doubles down on a high-stakes bet, announcing a multiyear partnership and major investment in AI startup Thinking Machines — valued at over $12 billion — even as the company faces internal turmoil including the firing of its CTO and multiple employee resignations.
NVIDIA is partnering with Thinking Machines Lab in a major multiyear deal to deploy at least one gigawatt of next-generation Vera Rubin AI systems by early 2027, with a significant financial investment aimed at advancing frontier AI model training and expanding AI access for enterprises, researchers, and the scientific community.
Yann LeCun's new startup AMI Labs secures a record-breaking $1 billion seed round at a $3.5 billion valuation, backed by Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and others, to develop AI that understands and operates reliably in the physical world — though experts warn the technology is complex, high-stakes, and a longer-term investment.
Thinking Machines Lab and NVIDIA are joining forces in a multi-year partnership to deploy over one gigawatt of next-gen NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI systems as early as next year, with NVIDIA making a significant investment to expand frontier AI access for enterprises, researchers, and scientists worldwide.
Yann LeCun launches Paris-based AI startup Advanced Machine Intelligence, raising over $1 billion at a $3.5 billion valuation to build world models grounded in physical reality, challenging the dominance of large language models and targeting industries like manufacturing, robotics, and biomedical with open source AI solutions.
Nvidia pays a $150 million deposit to seize 600MW of data center capacity in Abilene, Texas after Oracle and OpenAI scrap a planned Stargate expansion following failed financing negotiations and weather-related infrastructure setbacks, with Nvidia reportedly eyeing Meta as a tenant to keep the site exclusively running its own silicon.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with native computer-use and 1M token context as rival Claude hits #1 on the US App Store with record signups, while OpenAI's massive $110B funding round turns out to contain only ~$15B in immediately deployable cash.
OpenAI is abandoning plans to expand its Stargate data center with Oracle in Texas, choosing newer Nvidia GPU clusters elsewhere as the AI industry faces a growing crisis where data centers become obsolete faster than they can be built, leaving Oracle — which carries over $100 billion in debt and …