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   Nvidia bets nearly $40B to become a frontier model lab, not just an AI chipmaker

   A PingWest article republished by TechNews says Nvidia has assembled close to $40 billion of deals in under a year — counting a $6 billion non-exclusive technology license plus $1 billion investment in Poolside, a Groq license reported at about $20 billion (undisclosed by the parties), a roughly $12.93 billion pending acquisition of Hugging Face, and early talks with Reflection AI — combining licensing, hiring, equity and acquisitions. It adds that with researchers such as Essential AI founder Ashish Vaswani, who joined in June to work on Nemotron, and its own Nemotron line (Nemotron 3 Ultra, released in June, has 550B total and 55B active parameters and was pretrained on 20 trillion tokens), Nvidia is shifting from AI infrastructure supplier toward a frontier lab that builds its own models and agents, repeating the CUDA-era pattern of betting on the next stage while profits are strong. The article cites last quarter's $96.2 billion revenue, up 106% year over year, and about $59.69 billion in net profit as the financial backdrop.

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   Nvidia's nearly $40B AI deal spree signals a frontier-model pivot

   An analysis by PingWest says Nvidia has arranged nearly $40 billion in AI deals over the past year involving Poolside, Hugging Face, Groq, Essential AI and Reflection, through licensing, investment, hiring and acquisitions. It reports a $6 billion Poolside technology license plus a $1 billion investment, an announced roughly $12.93 billion Hugging Face acquisition that is still pending, and a Groq licensing deal that media reports put near $20 billion though the companies did not disclose terms. The article argues Nvidia is moving from an AI infrastructure supplier toward a company that also builds frontier intelligence, while cautioning that these arrangements are not all paid acquisition cash.

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