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NVIDIA

Designs accelerated-computing chips, networking systems and software used to build and run AI.

DirectAI chips & networking
What it does

Designs accelerated-computing chips, networking systems and software used to build and run AI.

Why it matters

Its GPUs and networking are among the most widely used computing platforms for training and running large AI models, giving it an outsized role in the AI economy.

How it makes money

Sells accelerated-computing chips, systems and software, primarily to data-center customers building AI infrastructure.

Geography

United States

AI stack position

AI chips and networking. The companies designing the processors, accelerators and networking equipment that do the actual computing behind AI, including GPUs like NVIDIA's, and the high-speed connections that link thousands of them together.

Connections (111)

Every connection below is tied to a readable source, date, classification and statement of its limits. A company source establishes what that company stated; it does not necessarily provide independent confirmation.

Current relationships (56)

Tesla is qualified under NVIDIA's DSX Ready program with NVIDIA
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NVIDIA said Tesla is one of three battery energy storage suppliers qualified at the launch of its DSX Ready program for products meeting NVIDIA DSX AI factory reference design requirements, alongside Hitachi Energy and LG Energy Solution.

Source: 2026-09-21 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Qualified under a reference-design program; no deployments disclosed

Limits: A technical qualification listing only. It does not establish that any NVIDIA AI factory has ordered or installed Tesla Megapacks, does not disclose volumes, pricing or exclusivity, and does not make NVIDIA a customer of Tesla.

NVIDIA Launches DSX Ready to Qualify Power and Cooling Products for AI Factories ↗
Lambda buys GPUs from NVIDIA
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Lambda secured $1 billion in private short-term debt in September 2026, arranged by JPMorgan, specifically to purchase Nvidia GPUs that it leases onward to customers including Microsoft.

Source: 2026-09-01 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Reported operating

Limits: This confirms one debt-financed GPU purchase; it does not disclose the total volume of GPUs Lambda buys from Nvidia overall or any purchase pricing terms.

Lambda secures $1bn private debt to purchase Nvidia GPUs - report ↗
NVIDIA invested in Starcloud
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NVIDIA was named as a new investor in Starcloud's $250 million Series A extension, announced at a $2.3 billion post-money valuation and led by Manhattan West.

Source: 2026-08-21 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Establishes participation in a funding round. It does not establish the size of NVIDIA's stake, any board seat, control, commercial commitment to buy capacity, or that the valuation reflects revenue.

Starcloud Raises $250 Million at $2.3 Billion Valuation to Scale AI with Orbital Data Centers ↗
NVIDIA supplies GPUs to Starcloud
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Starcloud said its Starcloud-1 satellite, launched in November 2025, carried the first data-center-class NVIDIA H100 GPU to operate in orbit.

Source: 2026-08-21 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Establishes that one NVIDIA GPU flew on one satellite. It does not establish the commercial terms, whether the part was sold, donated or supplied through a program, any volume commitment, or that NVIDIA will supply GPUs for a larger constellation.

Starcloud Raises $250 Million at $2.3 Billion Valuation to Scale AI with Orbital Data Centers ↗
Waymo runs part of its compute stack on chips from NVIDIA
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Waymo's next-generation robotaxi compute system uses a custom Waymo-designed ASIC for front-end sensor processing alongside chips from NVIDIA, AMD, Micron, Samsung, SanDisk, Socionext and TSMC, per Waymo's August 2026 disclosure.

Source: 2026-08-20 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting of an on-record executive statement · Current, disclosed August 2026

Limits: The source does not disclose relative purchase volumes, contract value, or which specific NVIDIA chip generation is used in production vehicles.

Waymo Unveils First Custom Robotaxi Chip With More Than 1,000 TOPS of AI Processing Power ↗
Universal Robots uses AI models from NVIDIA
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Universal Robots said its AI Trainer platform integrates NVIDIA's GR00T open vision-language-action model and Isaac Sim, shown in production-ready applications at Automate 2026.

Source: 2026-06-18 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Universal Robots' own release, made at a trade show. It does not establish how many customers use AI Trainer, what Universal Robots pays NVIDIA, or that these applications are deployed outside demonstrations.

Teradyne Robotics unveils wide range of production-ready physical AI applications at Automate 2026 ↗
Equinix deploys NVIDIA-based AI infrastructure with NVIDIA
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Equinix, Cisco and NVIDIA announced an expanded collaboration to deploy Cisco Secure AI Factory reference architectures built on NVIDIA technology across Equinix's global data center footprint, including a joint test lab with Presidio.

Source: 2026-06-16 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating collaboration as of June 2026

Limits: Describes a technology and go-to-market collaboration, not a supply contract, revenue figures, or exclusivity between the two companies.

Equinix Collaborates with Cisco and NVIDIA to Deploy Secure AI Factories Across Global Data Center Footprint ↗
NVIDIA invested in NEURA Robotics
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NEURA Robotics named NVIDIA among the investors in its Series C of up to 1.4 billion dollars, announced on 10 June 2026.

Source: 2026-06-10 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: NEURA's own release, which describes a round of up to 1.4 billion dollars rather than a confirmed closed amount. It does not state how much NVIDIA invested or the stake acquired.

NEURA Robotics Announces Record Series C of up to $1.4B ↗
NVIDIA co-developed a humanoid-robot reference platform with Unitree Robotics
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NVIDIA and Unitree jointly unveiled an open humanoid-robot reference design powered by NVIDIA's Isaac GR00T platform for academic and research use, announced around June 1, 2026.

Source: 2026-06-01 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced partnership, June 2026

Limits: The announcement covers a joint reference-design platform for research use; it does not establish an equity investment, exclusivity, or the volume of Unitree hardware NVIDIA purchases or licenses.

NVIDIA Announces NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot for Academic Research ↗
NVIDIA supplies GPUs to SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)
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SpaceXAI said Colossus 1 features over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, including H100, H200 and GB200 accelerators.

Source: 2026-05-06 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: A count published by the operator, not independently audited. Does not establish price, delivery dates, exclusivity, or the site's location -- the cited page does not name Memphis. Does not establish how many of the GPUs are in service at any given time.

New Compute Partnership with Anthropic ↗
NVIDIA invested in ElevenLabs
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NVIDIA participated in ElevenLabs' $500+ million Series D funding round alongside BlackRock, announced in May 2026.

Source: 2026-05-05 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting of an on-record executive statement · Completed

Limits: Does not establish ownership percentage, board representation, or any operating relationship beyond the equity investment.

ElevenLabs adds BlackRock, Nvidia and Jamie Foxx to $550M+ Series D ↗
Pony.ai buys autonomous driving chips from NVIDIA
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Pony.ai announced a next-generation autonomous driving domain controller built on the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion platform and powered by NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor, with an NVIDIA vice president describing Pony.ai as a long-standing NVIDIA DRIVE customer.

Source: 2026-04-25 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: A joint announcement by the two companies. It does not establish the number of chips purchased, the price paid, whether the new controller has entered mass production, or that Pony.ai sources exclusively from NVIDIA.

Pony.ai Announces New Generation Autonomous Driving Compute Platform Built on NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion ↗
Anthropic uses GPUs from NVIDIA
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Anthropic says it trains and runs Claude using NVIDIA GPUs.

Source: 2026-04-06 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Also uses Trainium and TPUs. No exclusive NVIDIA dependency implied.

Anthropic Google and Broadcom compute agreement ↗
GE Vernova co-develops grid digital twins with NVIDIA
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GE Vernova is aligning its high-fidelity grid digital twins with the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint so utilities and developers can simulate grid behavior, substations and AI factory loads together before deployment, per NVIDIA's March 31, 2026 blog post.

Source: 2026-03-31 · reviewed 2026-09-22

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Describes a simulation/technology alignment only; does not establish a supply contract, financial terms, or exclusivity between the two companies.

Efficiency at Scale: NVIDIA, Energy Leaders Accelerating Power-Flexible AI Factories to Fortify the Grid ↗
Marvell Technology co-develops NVLink Fusion infrastructure with NVIDIA
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Marvell and NVIDIA announced Marvell will supply custom XPUs and NVLink Fusion-compatible scale-up networking silicon, while NVIDIA supplies Vera CPU, ConnectX NICs, BlueField DPUs, NVLink interconnect and Spectrum-X switches, to build heterogeneous AI racks compatible with NVIDIA systems.

Source: 2026-03-31 · reviewed 2026-09-22

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Describes the announced technical scope of the collaboration; does not establish shipping volumes, specific customer deployments, or revenue generated by the partnership.

NVIDIA AI Ecosystem Expands as Marvell Joins Forces Through NVLink Fusion ↗
Skild AI trains its model using NVIDIA
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Skild AI said NVIDIA is providing Isaac Lab, Isaac Sim and Cosmos to enable large-scale pretraining of the Skild Brain on simulation and synthetic data.

Source: 2026-03-19 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Skild AI's own post. It does not establish how much NVIDIA compute Skild uses, what it pays, or whether the arrangement is exclusive or time-limited.

The Reindustrial Revolution: Partnering with ABB Robotics, Universal Robots, and NVIDIA ↗
Micron co-develops next-generation HBM with NVIDIA
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Micron began high-volume shipment of HBM4 36GB 12-high memory designed for NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform in Q1 calendar 2026, describing the product as reflecting 'joint engineering innovations across the ecosystem' with bandwidth exceeding 2.8 TB/s.

Source: 2026-03-16 · reviewed 2026-09-22

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Does not disclose shipment volumes, pricing, or whether NVIDIA is the exclusive customer for this specific HBM4 configuration.

Micron in High-Volume Production of HBM4 Designed for NVIDIA Vera Rubin, PCIe Gen6 SSD and SOCAMM2 ↗
NVIDIA partners with FANUC
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NVIDIA said FANUC is integrating NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and Isaac simulation frameworks into its virtual commissioning solutions and embedding Jetson modules in its controllers for edge AI inference.

Source: 2026-03-16 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: NVIDIA's own release. It does not establish how many FANUC products ship with Jetson modules, any payment between the two companies, exclusivity, or that any customer has deployed the combination in production.

NVIDIA and Global Robotics Leaders Take Physical AI to the Real World ↗
NVIDIA partners with Yaskawa Electric
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NVIDIA said YASKAWA is integrating NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and Isaac simulation frameworks into its virtual commissioning solutions.

Source: 2026-03-16 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: NVIDIA's own release. It does not establish the commercial terms, which Yaskawa products are affected, or that any customer is running the integrated tooling in production.

NVIDIA and Global Robotics Leaders Take Physical AI to the Real World ↗
NVIDIA partners with ABB Robotics
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NVIDIA said ABB Robotics is integrating Omniverse libraries and Isaac simulation frameworks into virtual commissioning solutions and integrating Jetson modules into its controllers for edge AI inference.

Source: 2026-03-16 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: NVIDIA's own release. It does not establish payment, volumes, exclusivity, or how the pending sale of ABB Robotics to SoftBank Group affects the arrangement.

NVIDIA and Global Robotics Leaders Take Physical AI to the Real World ↗
NVIDIA partners with KUKA
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NVIDIA said KUKA is integrating Omniverse libraries and Isaac simulation frameworks and is codeveloping with Lightwheel on calibration of the Newton physics engine.

Source: 2026-03-16 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: NVIDIA's own release. It does not establish any payment between the parties, which KUKA products are affected, or that customers have deployed the result.

NVIDIA and Global Robotics Leaders Take Physical AI to the Real World ↗
AgiBot uses AI models from NVIDIA
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NVIDIA said AGIBOT is adopting NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N models for industrial humanoid deployments and is building humanoids using Cosmos world models, Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab.

Source: 2026-03-16 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: NVIDIA's own release. It does not establish that shipped AgiBot robots run GR00T models, how many units are involved, what AgiBot pays, or that AgiBot does not primarily use its own foundation models.

NVIDIA and Global Robotics Leaders Take Physical AI to the Real World ↗
NEURA Robotics uses AI models from NVIDIA
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NVIDIA said NEURA Robotics is developing humanoids using Cosmos world models, Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab, and is adopting Isaac GR00T N models.

Source: 2026-03-16 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: NVIDIA's own release. It does not establish that any NEURA robot delivered to a customer runs these models, nor any commercial terms between the two companies.

NVIDIA and Global Robotics Leaders Take Physical AI to the Real World ↗
Agility Robotics trains robots using NVIDIA
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NVIDIA said Agility Robotics is building humanoids using NVIDIA Cosmos world models, Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab.

Source: 2026-03-16 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: NVIDIA's own release. It refers to development and simulation tooling; it does not establish what compute Agility buys, what it pays, or that NVIDIA silicon runs onboard the Digit robot.

NVIDIA and Global Robotics Leaders Take Physical AI to the Real World ↗
NVIDIA invests $2 billion in Nebius as part of a full-stack AI cloud partnership Nebius
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NVIDIA agreed to invest $2 billion in Nebius Group N.V. as part of a strategic partnership under which Nebius will deploy more than 5 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems by the end of 2030, announced March 11, 2026.

Source: 2026-03-11 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced investment and multi-year deployment partnership

Limits: The release states the investment amount and capacity target; it does not disclose the resulting ownership percentage, investment structure, or confirm the investment has fully closed.

NVIDIA and Nebius Partner to Scale Full-Stack AI Cloud ↗
NVIDIA invested in Wayve
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Wayve named NVIDIA among the strategic participants in its 1.2 billion dollar Series D, announced on 25 February 2026 at a post-money valuation of 8.6 billion dollars.

Source: 2026-02-25 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Wayve's own release. It does not state how much NVIDIA invested, the stake acquired, or whether NVIDIA supplies Wayve with hardware or compute.

Wayve secures $1.5B to deploy its global autonomy platform ↗
NVIDIA invested in CoreWeave
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NVIDIA reported a completed $2 billion CoreWeave share investment.

Source: 2026-01-26 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Investment reported completed

Limits: January 2026 transaction at $87.20 per share. Not total lifetime investment or current ownership percentage.

NVIDIA and CoreWeave strengthen collaboration ↗
NVIDIA provides platform technology to CoreWeave
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CoreWeave identifies NVIDIA hardware and software in its cloud platform.

Source: 2026-01-26 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Technology use does not establish direct purchase volumes or sole-supplier status.

NVIDIA and CoreWeave strengthen collaboration ↗
NVIDIA invested in Skild AI
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NVIDIA's venture arm NVentures was named among the participants in Skild AI's reported 1.4 billion dollar funding round announced in January 2026.

Source: 2026-01-15 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Reported operating

Limits: Trade reporting of a funding announcement. It does not establish the amount NVIDIA invested, the stake acquired, or that the investment carries any supply or licensing commitment.

Skild AI raises $1.4B, building 'omni-bodied' robot Skild Brain ↗
NVIDIA invested in SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)
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xAI named NVIDIA as a strategic investor in its $20 billion Series E announced on January 6, 2026.

Source: 2026-01-06 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: The announcement does not state how much NVIDIA put in, what ownership percentage it received, or what security it bought. It also does not say whether the position survived the February 2026 SpaceX combination in the same form.

Series E ↗
Together AI runs its cloud on NVIDIA
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Together AI's GPU cloud platform runs on Nvidia-powered GPUs, which reporting in mid-2026 tied to the company's push toward a valuation near $7.5 billion in a new funding round.

Source: 2026-01-02 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Reported operating

Limits: This confirms Together AI's cloud infrastructure is built on Nvidia GPUs; it does not disclose the volume of GPUs, purchase terms, or whether Together AI uses any non-Nvidia hardware as well.

Together AI Leverages NVIDIA-Powered GPUs as It Eyes $7.5B Valuation in New Round ↗
NVIDIA invested in Black Forest Labs
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NVIDIA participated in Black Forest Labs' $300 million Series B funding round announced December 1, 2025, alongside Andreessen Horowitz and Salesforce Ventures.

Source: 2025-12-01 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Completed

Limits: Does not establish ownership percentage, board representation, or any operating relationship beyond the equity investment.

Black Forest Labs Announces Series B Investment to Accelerate Frontier Visual Intelligence ↗
NVIDIA invests in Cohere
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NVIDIA participated as an investor in Cohere's $500 million funding round, which closed at a $6.8 billion valuation, reported in August 2025.

Source: 2025-08-14 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Completed

Limits: Does not establish NVIDIA's specific investment amount within the round or its resulting ownership percentage in Cohere.

Nvidia backs $500M funding round for Cohere at $6.8B valuation ↗
Eaton co-develops power infrastructure with NVIDIA
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Eaton and NVIDIA are collaborating on 800V HVDC power architecture, reference designs and grid-to-chip power management solutions for AI data centers, integrated into NVIDIA's Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory design.

Source: 2025-07-15 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported ongoing collaboration as of July 2025

Limits: Describes a technical/reference-architecture collaboration, not a supply contract, revenue, or exclusivity between the two companies.

Eaton Accelerates the Transformation of Data Center Infrastructure in the AI Era with NVIDIA ↗
Quanta Computer builds rack-scale servers around NVIDIA's GB200 NVL72 platform NVIDIA
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QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) announced the first shipment of its QuantaGrid rack-scale system built around the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 platform (72 Blackwell GPUs, 1.4 exaFLOPS), delivered to a GPU-cloud customer per its May 27, 2025 press release.

Source: 2025-05-27 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Current product line, shipping

Limits: The release names one specific initial customer (WhiteFiber, not on this map) and describes a single shipment; it does not establish the total scale of Quanta's NVIDIA-based production or its full customer list.

QCT Announces First Shipment of its NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 System ↗
Astera Labs expanding connectivity collaboration to advance NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion ecosystem NVIDIA
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Astera Labs expanded its collaboration with NVIDIA to advance the NVLink Fusion ecosystem and to optimize its connectivity chips for NVIDIA Blackwell-based MGX server platforms.

Source: 2025-05-19 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Ongoing, expanding technical collaboration

Limits: Describes a technical/product collaboration announced by Astera Labs; does not disclose commercial terms, revenue share, or exclusivity.

Astera Labs Expands Collaboration with NVIDIA to Advance NVLink Fusion Ecosystem ↗
NVIDIA invested in AI21 Labs
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NVIDIA participated in AI21 Labs' $300 million funding round announced in May 2025, alongside Google.

Source: 2025-05-11 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting of an on-record executive statement · Completed

Limits: Does not establish ownership percentage, board representation, or any operating/commercial relationship beyond the equity investment.

AI21 Labs raises $300M from Google and Nvidia to expand enterprise AI offerings ↗
TSMC manufactures chips for NVIDIA
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TSMC began Blackwell production in Arizona.

Source: 2025-04-14 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Does not establish volumes, pricing or exclusivity.

NVIDIA US manufacturing announcement ↗
Tesla trains its AI models on GPUs from NVIDIA
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Elon Musk said on Tesla's Q2 2024 earnings call that the Cortex training cluster at Giga Texas would hold 50,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs plus 20,000 units of Tesla's own hardware, used to train Full Self-Driving and Optimus software.

Source: 2024-08-27 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Secondary reporting of an on-record executive statement · Reported operating

Limits: A 2024 statement of a build plan by Tesla's CEO. It does not establish how many NVIDIA GPUs Tesla has installed today, what Tesla paid, how Cortex has since been expanded, or that Tesla buys directly from NVIDIA rather than through a system builder.

Elon Musk shows off Cortex AI supercluster — first look at Tesla's 50,000 Nvidia H100s ↗
TSMC uses computational lithography technology from NVIDIA
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TSMC integrated NVIDIA's cuLitho GPU-accelerated computational lithography software into its manufacturing software and process flow, as part of a joint NVIDIA/ASML/TSMC/Synopsys announcement, initially targeting Hopper-generation GPU production.

Source: 2023-03-21 · reviewed 2026-09-22

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Does not disclose how broadly cuLitho has been deployed across TSMC's fabs, financial terms, or whether coverage now extends beyond the initially announced Hopper-generation production.

NVIDIA, ASML, TSMC and Synopsys Set Foundation for Next-Generation Chip Manufacturing ↗
ASML integrates GPU-accelerated software from NVIDIA
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ASML is integrating NVIDIA's cuLitho GPU-accelerated computational lithography software into its computational lithography software products, working directly with NVIDIA on the underlying GPU technology.

Source: 2023-03-21 · reviewed 2026-09-22

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Describes integration plans announced jointly; does not specify which ASML products or customers currently use GPU-accelerated computational lithography in production, or financial terms.

NVIDIA, ASML, TSMC and Synopsys Set Foundation for Next-Generation Chip Manufacturing ↗
Supermicro offers AI servers using NVIDIA
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Supermicro currently markets NVIDIA Blackwell-based server systems.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Product documented

Limits: Product catalog evidence. It does not establish purchase volume, exclusivity or customer delivery.

Supermicro NVIDIA accelerators and systems ↗
Amazon Web Services offers cloud instances using NVIDIA
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AWS currently offers EC2 P6 instances based on NVIDIA Blackwell systems.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Product documented

Limits: Availability varies by instance type and region. No purchase volume or exclusivity inferred.

Amazon EC2 P6 instances ↗
Microsoft offers cloud virtual machines using NVIDIA
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Azure currently offers GPU-accelerated virtual machines equipped with NVIDIA GPUs.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Product documented

Limits: General current product documentation; no contract value or exclusivity inferred.

Azure ND-family GPU virtual machines ↗
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) offers cloud virtual machines using NVIDIA
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Google Compute Engine currently lists virtual machines using multiple NVIDIA GPU models.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Product documented

Limits: Product catalog evidence; availability varies. Google also offers its own TPUs.

Google Compute Engine GPUs ↗
Oracle offers cloud compute using NVIDIA
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Oracle Cloud currently offers GPU compute using NVIDIA accelerators.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Product documented

Limits: Product catalog evidence; no purchase volume, exclusivity or utilization inferred.

Oracle Cloud GPU compute ↗
SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) uses GPUs from NVIDIA
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Colossus identifies NVIDIA H100 hardware in its AI cluster.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Page contains inconsistent GPU counts. No count is carried into the map.

Colossus infrastructure page ↗
Arm Holdings provides CPU architecture used by NVIDIA
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NVIDIA Grace uses Arm Neoverse V2 CPU cores.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Product documented

Limits: Supports technology use, not undisclosed license terms or royalty rates.

NVIDIA CPU platforms product page ↗
NVIDIA publishes models on Hugging Face
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NVIDIA maintains an organization and model repositories on Hugging Face.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Catalog documented

Limits: Publishing relationship only. Does not establish paid services, investment or compute purchases.

NVIDIA organization on Hugging Face ↗
Nebius offers cloud compute using NVIDIA
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Nebius describes customer workloads running on NVIDIA H100 and Blackwell infrastructure in its AI cloud.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Product / customer use documented

Limits: Self-published operating examples. No fleet count, purchase value or exclusive dependence inferred.

Nebius AI cloud ↗
Cisco Systems builds AI networking systems with NVIDIA
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Cisco offers data-center switches and reference architectures built around NVIDIA's Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform for AI clusters.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Product documented

Limits: Product/solution documentation; does not establish purchase volume, exclusivity or which customers have deployed it.

Cisco AI networking for data center with NVIDIA Spectrum-X ↗
Alibaba Group runs NVIDIA AI Enterprise software on Alibaba Cloud NVIDIA
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NVIDIA's own deployment documentation lists Alibaba Cloud as a supported cloud platform for NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and GPU-accelerated instances.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Does not establish the volume of NVIDIA hardware deployed on Alibaba Cloud, exclusivity, or contract value between the companies; US export restrictions also limit which NVIDIA chips can be used within China.

Alibaba Cloud Platform Overview ↗
Tencent builds Hunyuan inference on NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM NVIDIA
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An NVIDIA-hosted GTC conference session describes Tencent's Hunyuan team building a high-performance inference engine for its large models based on NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Describes a technical integration presented at an NVIDIA conference; does not establish contract value, exclusivity, or the scale of NVIDIA hardware used by Tencent.

Tencent HunYuan: Building a High-Performance Inference Engine for Large Models Based on NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM ↗
Stability AI optimizes models with NVIDIA
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Stability AI's partner page states that NVIDIA technology is used to enable efficient deployment and scaling of its models.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Does not establish investment, ownership, or exclusivity between the companies.

Stability AI Partners ↗
CrowdStrike co-runs a cybersecurity startup accelerator with NVIDIA
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CrowdStrike, AWS and NVIDIA jointly selected 35 startups for a 2026 cybersecurity startup accelerator program, according to a CrowdStrike press release.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Active joint program

Limits: Confirms a joint accelerator program; does not establish that CrowdStrike's Charlotte AI runs on NVIDIA hardware exclusively or any broader technology dependency.

CrowdStrike, AWS, and NVIDIA Select 35 Startups for the 2026 Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator ↗
ServiceNow co-developed agentic AI governance tools with NVIDIA
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ServiceNow and NVIDIA announced an expanded partnership to extend agentic AI governance from desktop to data-center environments, according to a ServiceNow newsroom release.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Active technology partnership

Limits: Confirms an announced partnership; does not disclose contract value or the extent of ServiceNow's reliance on NVIDIA hardware.

ServiceNow extends agentic AI governance from desktops to data centers with NVIDIA ↗

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NVIDIA in talks to invest in Perplexity AI
Invested inDated / announced
As of late August 2026, NVIDIA was reported to be in talks to participate in a Perplexity AI funding round at a valuation of more than $30 billion; the deal was not confirmed as closed.

Source: 2026-08-24 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Reported; in talks, not confirmed

Limits: Reflects reporting of an in-progress, unconfirmed negotiation; does not establish that an investment was finalized, its amount, or NVIDIA's resulting ownership stake.

Nvidia Considers Backing Perplexity at $30 Billion Valuation ↗
SpaceX plans to use chips from NVIDIA
Uses technology fromDated / announced
NVIDIA said on August 24, 2026 that SpaceXAI will adopt NVIDIA Vera CPUs and plans to extend an optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system into orbit aboard its first-generation Starmind AI satellite.

Source: 2026-08-24 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced; not confirmed operating

Limits: An announcement of intent. It does not establish that any Vera CPU or Vera Rubin system has been delivered, that a Starmind satellite has been built or launched, the number of units, the price, or that the orbital hardware will survive the radiation and thermal environment.

SpaceXAI Adopts NVIDIA Vera CPU to Accelerate Agentic AI at Massive Scale ↗
Crusoe Energy expands technology collaboration with NVIDIA
Partners withDated / announced
Crusoe and Nvidia announced in August 2026 an expanded collaboration across their AI infrastructure stack, including Crusoe's early adoption of Nvidia Vera Rubin systems and Nemotron 3 models, and integration of Crusoe's tokenizer with Nvidia's Dynamo inference library.

Source: 2026-08-19 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced

Limits: This describes announced technical collaboration and planned 2026-2027 hardware deployments; it does not prove all elements are in production today or disclose the commercial terms between the two companies.

Crusoe and NVIDIA Expand Collaboration Across the Full AI Infrastructure Stack ↗
NVIDIA finalized a smaller Ohio data-center financing guarantee for OpenAI
Provides infrastructure toDated / announced
NVIDIA's financing guarantee for OpenAI's SoftBank-developed Ohio data-center campus was reported finalized around $105 billion in August 2026, materially smaller than the up-to-$250 billion figure reported as under discussion in July 2026 (see R070) -- subsequent reporting described the guarantee being trimmed further to under $120 billion.

Source: 2026-08-17 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Reported finalized August 17, 2026; supersedes the July 2026 talks-stage figure in R070 as the deal's actual outcome, not a correction to it.

Limits: Based on CNBC/Axios reporting citing sources rather than a joint NVIDIA-OpenAI primary statement; the primary CNBC URL could not be directly re-fetched during this audit (returned a bot-protection error) though its content is corroborated by multiple independent outlets. Does not establish final, fully-confirmed terms.

Nvidia's financing for OpenAI's Ohio data center reportedly set at $105 billion ↗
Vistra Corp partners with NVIDIA
Partners withDated / announced
Vistra became the preferred power provider for Helix Digital Infrastructure, a data-center development venture formed with KKR, the Kuwait Investment Authority and NVIDIA backed by more than $10 billion in capital commitments, announced around June 2026.

Source: 2026-08-07 · reviewed 2026-09-22

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Announced / planned

Limits: No primary Vistra, NVIDIA or Helix press release was located; NVIDIA's specific equity stake, Vistra's contracted capacity, and Helix's development timeline are not established by this source.

The Hidden Winners of the AI Power Crunch: 3 Utilities ↗
NVIDIA reportedly discussed financing backstop for OpenAI
Partners withDated / announced
News reports said NVIDIA was in talks to guarantee financing of up to $250 billion for an OpenAI data-center campus in Ohio, as an alternative structure to the stalled direct-investment framework.

Source: 2026-07-27 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Reported in talks, unconfirmed

Limits: Based on press reporting (CNBC, citing the Wall Street Journal); neither NVIDIA nor OpenAI had issued a primary confirming statement as of the report date. Included to show the proposed $100 billion deal's status continuing to evolve, not as a confirmed commitment.

Nvidia and OpenAI in talks for up to $250 billion backstop to fund AI infrastructure plans ↗
NVIDIA invests in Safe Superintelligence
Invested inDated / announced
NVIDIA agreed to invest a reported multibillion-dollar amount (around $5 billion per Bloomberg) in Safe Superintelligence as part of a July 2026 partnership announcement.

Source: 2026-07-27 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Announced

Limits: Does not confirm the deal has closed, the exact investment amount, or NVIDIA's resulting ownership percentage in SSI.

Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research ↗
NVIDIA provides access to Vera Rubin GPU platform Safe Superintelligence
Provides computing capacity toDated / announced
As part of the July 2026 partnership, NVIDIA agreed to give Safe Superintelligence access to its Vera Rubin GPU platform, reported as increasing SSI's compute resources by roughly an order of magnitude.

Source: 2026-07-27 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Announced

Limits: Does not establish delivered hardware quantities, deployment timeline, or whether compute has actually been provisioned as of the review date.

Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research ↗
SK hynix supplies AI memory to NVIDIA
SuppliesDated / announced
SK hynix and NVIDIA signed letters of intent as part of a $500-billion-plus SK Group-NVIDIA partnership under which SK hynix will provide a stable supply of next-generation AI memory, including HBM4, to power NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform.

Source: 2026-07-25 · reviewed 2026-09-22

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced / planned

Limits: Signed as letters of intent, not a finalized supply contract; the $500B+ figure covers the entire SK Group-NVIDIA partnership including AI-factory construction, not an amount specific to the SK hynix memory-supply piece.

SK Group and NVIDIA Expand Strategic Partnership Across AI Factories and Next-Generation Memory ↗
DeepSeek trained early models on NVIDIA GPUs NVIDIA
Uses technology fromDated / announced
Reporting states DeepSeek's earlier models were trained using NVIDIA GPUs (including H800 chips) before the company began shifting significant training and inference work toward domestic Huawei Ascend hardware in 2026.

Source: 2026-07-07 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Reported shifting away

Limits: Does not establish DeepSeek's current primary hardware supplier, purchase volumes, or whether any NVIDIA relationship is ongoing as of the review date.

Exclusive-China's DeepSeek Developing Its Own AI Chip, Sources Say ↗
SK hynix co-develops memory with NVIDIA
Co-develops withDated / announced
SK hynix and NVIDIA announced multiyear memory co-engineering.

Source: 2026-06-07 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced partnership

Limits: Replaced the mistyped SK Group URL. Group-level investment is not a SK hynix purchase order.

SK hynix and NVIDIA AI factory partnership ↗
NVIDIA invested in Marvell Technology
Invested inDated / announced
NVIDIA announced it has invested $2 billion in Marvell Technology alongside the companies' NVLink Fusion partnership announced March 31, 2026.

Source: 2026-03-31 · reviewed 2026-09-22

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced

Limits: Confirms the $2 billion investment figure as stated by NVIDIA; does not establish resulting ownership percentage or board/governance rights.

NVIDIA AI Ecosystem Expands as Marvell Joins Forces Through NVLink Fusion ↗
NVIDIA partners on sovereign AI infrastructure with Palantir Technologies
Partners withDated / announced
Palantir and NVIDIA are building a reference architecture for a 'sovereign AI operating system' aimed at government and critical-infrastructure customers, and NVIDIA models are being deployed through Palantir's platform.

Source: 2026-03-12 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced partnership

Limits: Reference-architecture and platform partnership; does not establish specific government contract values.

Palantir and NVIDIA team to deliver sovereign AI operating system reference architecture ↗
NVIDIA will supply GPUs, CPUs and networking to Meta Platforms
SuppliesDated / announced
NVIDIA announced a multiyear, multigenerational partnership under which Meta will deploy millions of Blackwell and Rubin GPUs, Grace CPUs and Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, with Vera CPUs targeted for 2027.

Source: 2026-02-17 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced; not confirmed operating

Limits: An announcement by NVIDIA with quotes from both CEOs. No contract value, delivery schedule or unit commitment is disclosed, and it does not establish how many systems have shipped or that Meta buys exclusively from NVIDIA.

Meta Builds AI Infrastructure With NVIDIA ↗
NVIDIA licenses inference technology from Groq
Uses technology fromDated / announced
Reporting on a deal disclosed December 24-26, 2025 states NVIDIA agreed to pay nearly $20 billion to license chip technology from Groq and to hire Groq CEO Jonathan Ross and other engineers, structured as an asset/IP licensing deal rather than a full acquisition of the company.

Source: 2025-12-26 · reviewed 2026-09-22

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Announced

Limits: Reported deal structure and price come from press coverage, not a joint NVIDIA/Groq statement fetched directly in this research; does not establish that Groq ceased operating as an independent company, and closing status as of the audit review date is unconfirmed.

Nvidia to License Groq Technology in $20 Billion AI Chip Deal ↗
Groq licenses inference technology to NVIDIA
Partners withDated / announced
Groq and NVIDIA entered a non-exclusive technology licensing agreement covering Groq's inference technology.

Source: 2025-12-24 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Licensing agreement announced

Limits: Primary source frames this as a non-exclusive licensing agreement; widely covered in the press as a roughly $20 billion 'acquisition' or 'acquihire' of Groq, a framing this record does not adopt without primary confirmation.

Groq and NVIDIA enter non-exclusive inference technology licensing agreement ↗
Mistral AI partners on open models with NVIDIA
Partners withDated / announced
Mistral AI and NVIDIA partnered to accelerate a new family of open frontier models, and NVIDIA is among the investors and partners backing Mistral's planned AI campus buildout in Europe.

Source: 2025-12-03 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced partnership

Limits: Model-acceleration and campus-investment partnership; does not establish that Mistral operates on NVIDIA compute exclusively.

Mistral AI and NVIDIA partner to accelerate open frontier models ↗
NVIDIA reported status update on proposed investment in OpenAI
Partners withDated / announced
NVIDIA's chief financial officer said in December 2025 that the $100 billion investment framework announced with OpenAI in September 2025 (see R016) remained a non-binding letter of intent with no definitive agreement signed, and that OpenAI was still buying NVIDIA compute indirectly through cloud providers such as Oracle and Microsoft rather than purchasing directly from NVIDIA.

Source: 2025-12-02 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Secondary reporting of an on-record executive statement · Status update reported

Limits: The CFO's remarks were made on the record at a financial conference; this record relies on DataCenterDynamics's report of them rather than a company press release, transcript or webcast we have located. Reclassified in V2.1 from 'Primary-source statement' to a distinct evidence class once it was flagged that the field did not match this caveat. Supersedes R016 as the most current confirmed status at the time of this audit.

NVIDIA CFO says $100bn OpenAI deal has yet to complete ↗
NVIDIA announced an investment in Anthropic
Invested inDated / announced
NVIDIA said it would invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic alongside Microsoft investing up to $5 billion, as Anthropic committed to $30 billion of Azure compute capacity running on NVIDIA Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems.

Source: 2025-11-18 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced; not confirmed operating

Limits: An announced intention to invest up to a stated ceiling. It does not establish how much has actually been funded, what ownership stake NVIDIA holds, the valuation, or that any Grace Blackwell or Vera Rubin capacity has been delivered to Anthropic.

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic Announce Strategic Partnerships ↗
Vertiv co-develops power systems with NVIDIA
Co-develops withDated / announced
Vertiv and NVIDIA are collaborating on 800 volt direct-current (800 VDC) power architecture designs intended for next-generation AI data centers.

Source: 2025-10-13 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced partnership

Limits: Design collaboration for future facilities, not a completed product shipment or a specific customer deployment.

Vertiv collaborates with NVIDIA to advance 800 VDC platform designs ↗
OpenAI proposed compute partnership with NVIDIA
Partners withDated / announced
OpenAI and NVIDIA announced a 10 GW deployment letter of intent.

Source: 2025-09-22 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Letter of intent

Limits: Historical proposal. Final terms and current deployment status need a newer source.

OpenAI and NVIDIA letter of intent ↗
NVIDIA proposed investment in OpenAI
Invested inDated / announced
NVIDIA intended staged investment of up to $100 billion in OpenAI.

Source: 2025-09-22 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Letter of intent

Limits: Not $100 billion paid or an unconditional completed investment. Current terms require rechecking.

OpenAI and NVIDIA letter of intent ↗
NVIDIA invested in and agreed to co-develop products with Intel Corporation
Invested inDated / announced
NVIDIA agreed to invest $5 billion in Intel common stock and the companies agreed to jointly develop multiple generations of AI-infrastructure and personal-computing products.

Source: 2025-09-18 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Investment and partnership announced

Limits: Announced as a stock purchase plus product roadmap; secondary reporting (CNBC, Dec 29 2025) said the stake purchase had closed, but neither company's own release in this record confirms a completion date.

NVIDIA and Intel to develop AI infrastructure and personal computing products ↗
NVIDIA invested in via Series D Lambda
Invested inDated / announced
Nvidia participated as an investor in Lambda's $480 million Series D funding round, which valued the company at over $4 billion, announced in August 2025.

Source: 2025-08-18 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Completed

Limits: This confirms Nvidia's participation as one of several investors in the round; it does not disclose Nvidia's exact investment amount or resulting ownership percentage in Lambda.

NVIDIA-backed Lambda lands $480M at $4B valuation to scale its AI cloud ↗
Schneider Electric co-develops data-center designs with NVIDIA
Co-develops withDated / announced
Schneider Electric and NVIDIA are developing validated reference designs and blueprints for building gigawatt-scale AI data centers.

Source: 2025-06-11 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced partnership

Limits: Reference-design collaboration; does not establish a specific completed data-center project or purchase volume.

Schneider Electric teams with NVIDIA to develop validated blueprints for AI factories ↗
Amkor Technology plans packaging for NVIDIA
Manufactures forDated / announced
Amkor was named in the Arizona packaging and testing plan.

Source: 2025-04-14 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced plan

Limits: No completion or production-volume evidence in this announcement.

NVIDIA US manufacturing announcement ↗
Hon Hai (Foxconn) plans system manufacturing for NVIDIA
Manufactures forDated / announced
Foxconn was named for planned Texas AI-supercomputer manufacturing.

Source: 2025-04-14 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced plan

Limits: The 12–15 month ramp target was a forecast, not a verified completion.

NVIDIA US manufacturing announcement ↗
BlackRock welcomed as a technology partner to the AI Infrastructure Partnership NVIDIA
Partners withDated / announced
NVIDIA joined the AI Infrastructure Partnership (led by BlackRock, GIP, Microsoft and MGX) as a member and technical advisor in March 2025, not as a capital investor.

Source: 2025-03-19 · reviewed 2026-09-21

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Joined as member/technical advisor, March 2025

Limits: The announcement explicitly frames NVIDIA's role as technology/advisory, not as a capital contributor to the partnership's investment fund.

BlackRock, GIP, Microsoft and MGX Welcome NVIDIA and xAI to AIP ↗
NVIDIA invested in via Series B Together AI
Invested inDated / announced
Nvidia was listed among the investors in Together AI's $305 million Series B round, which valued the company at $3.3 billion, announced in February 2025.

Source: 2025-02-24 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Completed

Limits: This confirms Nvidia's participation as one of several investors in the round; it does not disclose Nvidia's specific investment amount or resulting ownership stake.

AI cloud firm Together AI raises $305m in Series B funding round ↗
Toyota Motor announced vehicle platform use from NVIDIA
Uses technology fromDated / announced
Toyota announced that its next-generation vehicles would use NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin and DriveOS.

Source: 2025-01-06 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Adoption announced

Limits: Forward-looking adoption announcement. It does not verify vehicles delivered or current program volume.

Toyota joins NVIDIA DRIVE ecosystem ↗
Aurora Innovation builds its truck computer on NVIDIA
Uses technology fromDated / announced
Aurora, Continental and NVIDIA announced on 6 January 2025 that the primary computer for the Aurora Driver would be built on dual NVIDIA DRIVE Thor systems-on-chip running NVIDIA DriveOS, with Continental to begin manufacturing the hardware at scale in 2027.

Source: 2025-01-06 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced; not confirmed operating

Limits: An announcement of a planned hardware architecture. It does not establish that trucks operating today run DRIVE Thor, the number of chips ordered, the price paid, or that the 2027 manufacturing timeline has held.

Aurora, Continental, and NVIDIA Partner to Deploy Driverless Trucks at Scale ↗
NVIDIA invested in via Series D Crusoe Energy
Invested inDated / announced
Nvidia participated in Crusoe Energy's $600 million Series D funding round, led by Founders Fund at a $2.8 billion valuation, announced in December 2024.

Source: 2024-12-16 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Completed

Limits: This confirms Nvidia's participation as one of several investors in the round; it does not disclose Nvidia's specific investment amount or resulting ownership stake.

Crusoe Energy's secures $600M in Series D. Investors include Nvidia. ↗
Arista Networks builds AI networking systems with NVIDIA
Partners withDated / announced
Arista Networks and NVIDIA collaborate to deliver networking solutions for AI data centers, combining Arista switching with NVIDIA accelerated-computing platforms.

Source: 2024-05-29 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced partnership

Limits: Partnership announcement; current product scope should be checked against Arista's newest materials before treating as exhaustive.

Arista delivers holistic AI solutions in collaboration with NVIDIA ↗
Synopsys plans software acceleration using NVIDIA
Uses technology fromDated / announced
Plans to accelerate engineering software with Blackwell.

Source: 2024-03-18 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced plan

Limits: Does not prove this vendor designed NVIDIA chips.

NVIDIA Blackwell platform announcement ↗
Cadence Design Systems plans software acceleration using NVIDIA
Uses technology fromDated / announced
Plans to accelerate engineering software with Blackwell.

Source: 2024-03-18 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced plan

Limits: Does not prove this vendor designed NVIDIA chips.

NVIDIA Blackwell platform announcement ↗
Dell Technologies plans systems using NVIDIA
Uses technology fromDated / announced
Named as a planned Blackwell server vendor.

Source: 2024-03-18 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced plan

Limits: Future availability in the source, not proof of shipment.

NVIDIA Blackwell platform announcement ↗
HPE plans systems using NVIDIA
Uses technology fromDated / announced
Named as a planned Blackwell server vendor.

Source: 2024-03-18 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced plan

Limits: Future availability in the source, not proof of shipment.

NVIDIA Blackwell platform announcement ↗
Lenovo plans systems using NVIDIA
Uses technology fromDated / announced
Named as a planned Blackwell server vendor.

Source: 2024-03-18 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced plan

Limits: Replaced mismatched 2026 source and 2024 date.

NVIDIA Blackwell platform announcement ↗
Meta Platforms planned model training using NVIDIA
Uses technology fromDated / announced
Meta planned Blackwell use for Llama and consumer AI.

Source: 2024-03-18 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced plan

Limits: Not a current hardware inventory.

NVIDIA Blackwell platform announcement ↗
NVIDIA invested in Figure AI
Invested inDated / announced
NVIDIA participated in Figure AI's approximately $675 million Series B funding round at a $2.6 billion valuation, alongside other investors including Amazon and Jeff Bezos; Figure separately signed a collaboration agreement with OpenAI.

Source: 2024-02-29 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Investment reported completed

Limits: February 2024 funding round only; does not reflect Figure's later, larger funding rounds or current NVIDIA ownership stake.

Figure raises $675M at $2.6B valuation and signs collaboration agreement with OpenAI ↗
Micron announced memory supply for NVIDIA
SuppliesDated / announced
Micron HBM3E was selected for NVIDIA H200 GPUs.

Source: 2024-02-26 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Product supply announced

Limits: Source announced future H200 shipments. Not current market share or an exclusive supply agreement.

Micron HBM3E volume production ↗
NVIDIA invested in via funding round Databricks
Invested inDated / announced
Nvidia and Capital One invested in Databricks' roughly $500 million funding round, which valued the company at $43 billion, announced in September 2023.

Source: 2023-09-14 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Completed

Limits: This confirms Nvidia's participation in a 2023 funding round; it does not disclose Nvidia's exact investment amount, current ownership stake, or whether Nvidia participated in Databricks' later, larger 2026 rounds.

Nvidia and Capital One invest in Databricks at $43 billion valuation ↗
Siemens announced industrial partnership with NVIDIA
Partners withDated / announced
Siemens and NVIDIA planned to connect Xcelerator and Omniverse for digital twins.

Source: 2022-06-29 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced partnership

Limits: Correct source date is June 29, 2022. Current scope and implementation require an update.

Siemens and NVIDIA industrial metaverse partnership ↗
NVIDIA provides AI technology for humanoid robots to Boston Dynamics
Partners withDated / announced
Boston Dynamics expanded its collaboration with NVIDIA to use NVIDIA's simulation and foundation-model technology in developing humanoid robot capabilities, including the Atlas robot.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced partnership

Limits: Technology-collaboration announcement; does not establish that shipped commercial robots currently run this technology.

Boston Dynamics expands collaboration with NVIDIA ↗

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SambaNova Systems competes with in AI chips NVIDIA
Competes withComparison only
Coverage of SambaNova's February 2026 funding and new chip described the company as stepping up its challenge to Nvidia in AI hardware.

Source: 2026-02-24 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Reported operating

Limits: This reflects journalists' framing of SambaNova as a Nvidia challenger; it does not prove SambaNova has won specific Nvidia customers or matches Nvidia's scale.

SambaNova steps up its challenge to Nvidia with new chip, $350M funding and a powerful ally in Intel ↗
Baidu competes with (AI chips) NVIDIA
Competes withComparison only
Reporting describes Baidu's Kunlunxin AI accelerator chips as emerging domestic alternatives to NVIDIA GPUs for Chinese AI training and inference workloads.

Source: 2025-11-28 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Reported operating

Limits: Does not establish Kunlunxin's market share relative to NVIDIA or performance parity; reflects the two companies' overlapping product category (AI accelerator chips).

Baidu is emerging as a major AI chip player in China to fill the Nvidia gap ↗
Qualcomm competes with in AI inference chips NVIDIA
Competes withComparison only
Qualcomm launched AI200 and AI250 data-center inference accelerator chips in October 2025, entering the rack-scale AI inference chip market in which Nvidia is the leading GPU supplier.

Source: 2025-10-27 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Announced

Limits: This shows Qualcomm entering the same product category as Nvidia's inference GPUs; it does not prove Qualcomm has won Nvidia customers, matches Nvidia's performance, or has meaningfully changed Nvidia's market share.

Qualcomm launches AI200 and AI250 chip offering, targeting inferencing workloads at rack-scale ↗
Tesla designs inference silicon competing with NVIDIA
Competes withComparison only
Elon Musk claimed on a Tesla livestream that the AI5 chip would deliver about ten times the performance per dollar and up to three times the performance per watt of NVIDIA's AI chips for Tesla's inference workloads.

Source: 2025-10-23 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Secondary reporting of an on-record executive statement · Product/market overlap

Limits: A vendor claim about an unreleased chip, not an independent benchmark. AI5 is designed for Tesla's own vehicles and robots rather than sold on the merchant market, so this does not establish that Tesla sells chips against NVIDIA or that the performance claims hold in production.

Tesla AI5 FSD computer to run inference 10x cheaper than Nvidia AI chips ↗
Tenstorrent competes with in AI accelerators NVIDIA
Competes withComparison only
Reporting on Tenstorrent's $693 million Series D round in December 2024 described the company as building RISC-V-based AI accelerator chips intended to compete with Nvidia in the AI chip market.

Source: 2024-12-02 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Reported operating

Limits: This reflects framing used by journalists covering Tenstorrent's funding; it does not prove Tenstorrent chips currently displace Nvidia GPUs at any customer or that Tenstorrent has comparable market share or performance.

Tenstorrent Raises $693 Million in Series D to Compete with NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) in AI Accelerator Market ↗
AMD competes in AI acceleration with NVIDIA
Competes withComparison only
AMD Instinct and NVIDIA GPUs address overlapping AI-compute workloads.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Product comparison

Limits: Analyst classification, not a bilateral agreement. NVIDIA platform evidence is also in R007.

AMD Instinct product page ↗
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) offers alternative AI processors to NVIDIA
Competes withComparison only
Google TPUs offer another processor platform for AI workloads.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Product comparison

Limits: Workload-specific alternative, not a drop-in replacement for every GPU use.

Google Cloud TPU product page ↗
Amazon Web Services offers alternative AI processors to NVIDIA
Competes withComparison only
AWS Trainium offers another processor platform for AI workloads.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Product comparison

Limits: AWS can be an NVIDIA partner and offer alternative chips.

AWS Trainium product page ↗
Broadcom enables custom alternatives to NVIDIA
Competes withComparison only
Broadcom designs custom AI accelerator ('XPU') silicon for large customers, offering an in-house alternative to buying finished NVIDIA GPUs.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Product comparison

Limits: Broadcom's custom-silicon business model is structurally different from NVIDIA's merchant-GPU model; this is a market-structure comparison, not a bilateral agreement.

Broadcom AI accelerator (XPU) custom compute ↗
Intel Corporation competes in AI acceleration with NVIDIA
Competes withComparison only
Intel's Gaudi AI accelerators address overlapping AI training and inference workloads to NVIDIA's GPUs.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Product comparison

Limits: Analyst/product classification; Intel and NVIDIA are simultaneously investment and product-development partners (see R057).

Intel Gaudi AI accelerator products ↗
Cerebras Systems offers alternative AI computing architecture to NVIDIA
Competes withComparison only
Cerebras markets its wafer-scale engine systems as an alternative computing architecture to clusters of NVIDIA GPUs for AI training and inference.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Product comparison

Limits: Vendor-stated architectural alternative; not an independent benchmark or a bilateral agreement.

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