"Last week, AI news was dominated by Databricks' massive $500 million round. Who was at the center of that fundraising? NVIDIA. This news is only surprising if you haven't been paying attention to NVIDIA's recent investment spree. The recent additions to the portfolio feature some of the hottest companies in the AI space. Take a look and judge for yourself:
Hugging Face: NVIDIA was part of the recent $200 million round that pushed Hugging Face's valuation to $4 billion.
AI21 Labs: NVIDIA invested in the recent $155 million Series C that valued the OpenAI competitor at $1.4 billion.
Imbue: NVIDIA joined the $200 million Series B that valued the AI reasoning platform at $1 billion.
Cohere: NVIDIA was part of the $270 million round that valued Cohere at $2.1 billion.
Adept AI: NVIDIA participated in the $350 million round that valued Adept at $1 billion."
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 227 ms ] threadPer-GPU price is $25,000 to $30,000 estimated cost to make them is $3,320.
The prices above are plus or minus from Lambda Labs[1].
[1]: https://lambdalabs.com/products/scalar
"Last week, AI news was dominated by Databricks' massive $500 million round. Who was at the center of that fundraising? NVIDIA. This news is only surprising if you haven't been paying attention to NVIDIA's recent investment spree. The recent additions to the portfolio feature some of the hottest companies in the AI space. Take a look and judge for yourself:
Hugging Face: NVIDIA was part of the recent $200 million round that pushed Hugging Face's valuation to $4 billion.
AI21 Labs: NVIDIA invested in the recent $155 million Series C that valued the OpenAI competitor at $1.4 billion.
Imbue: NVIDIA joined the $200 million Series B that valued the AI reasoning platform at $1 billion.
Cohere: NVIDIA was part of the $270 million round that valued Cohere at $2.1 billion.
Adept AI: NVIDIA participated in the $350 million round that valued Adept at $1 billion."
Source https://musingsonai.substack.com/p/edition-14-last-15-days-i...