Jensen Huang’s strategic gambit
Summary
Nvidia is expanding deeper into the AI model layer by pursuing major deals with Hugging Face, Poolside, and Perplexity. The article argues that these moves aim to strengthen Nvidia’s open-source AI ecosystem and create more demand for its chips and infrastructure. It compares Nvidia’s strategy to the long-term impact CUDA had on GPU adoption. The piece also notes that Nvidia’s own open-source models still trail leading Chinese and other AI competitors on benchmark performance.
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Developer and IT Infrastructure
Development Platforms
Business Intelligence and Analytics
Linked Companies
NVIDIA Corporation
$1B+
OpenAI
$25M to $50M
Essential AI
$1M to $5M
Kumo AI, Inc.
$1M to $5M
Poolside
$1M to $5M
Hugging Face, Inc.
$10M to $25M
Anthropic
$10M to $25M