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NVIDIA investments and transaction tracker

NVIDIA capital partnerships connect model developers, cloud providers and chip interconnect companies. This guide selects seven investments and potential transactions from our archive, documenting the target, NVIDIA amount, reported stage and business relationship.

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Reports are selected through editorial review. Amounts and stages reflect each original report’s date. The company hub updates with daily issues, while this investment guide is reviewed separately.

Progress in context

As of November 4, 2026, this selection covers model and application companies Meta, OpenAI and Reflection AI, compute providers Firmus and GMI Cloud, and chip and interconnect companies d-Matrix and CScale. Reports concern proposed subscriptions, installment payments, further investment discussions and strategic participation. Amounts retain the meaning used in each dated report, with links back to the original coverage and its sources.

Investments and potential transactions

Dates refer to our coverage. Each milestone retains the reported stage at that time. Follow the news timeline for subsequent developments.

  1. Meta

    NVIDIA amount and basis
    Planned $3 billion investment
    Stage in original coverage
    Proposed subscription in company announcement
    Business relationship
    Muse models and Vera Rubin systems partnership
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  2. Firmus

    NVIDIA amount and basis
    Hundreds of millions discussed, final amount undisclosed
    Stage in original coverage
    Discussions reported by Bloomberg
    Business relationship
    AI data centers and GPU cloud services, with NVIDIA already an investor
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  3. d-Matrix

    NVIDIA amount and basis
    Undisclosed
    Stage in original coverage
    Investment plan reported by The Information, unconfirmed by the companies
    Business relationship
    Inference chips, with Raptor planned to connect through NVLink Fusion
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  4. Reflection AI

    NVIDIA amount and basis
    Current amount undisclosed, prior $800 million investment cited in coverage
    Stage in original coverage
    Early talks reported by media, acquisition, licensing and further investment options under discussion
    Business relationship
    Open-weight models and model–hardware integration
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  5. CScale

    NVIDIA amount and basis
    NVIDIA contribution undisclosed, entire Series C was $145 million
    Stage in original coverage
    Strategic participation in an announced round, reported by The Next Web
    Business relationship
    Optical interconnect for AI data centers, product adoption remains undisclosed
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  6. OpenAI

    NVIDIA amount and basis
    Final $10 billion installment
    Stage in original coverage
    Payment reportedly received October 1, according to The Information
    Business relationship
    Model developer and compute buyer, with overlapping investor and chip-supplier ties
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  7. GMI Cloud

    NVIDIA amount and basis
    NVIDIA contribution undisclosed, participated in $223 million equity financing
    Stage in original coverage
    Equity participation reported by The Information
    Business relationship
    GPU cloud services, with a separate $445 million credit facility and idle-capacity leasing arrangements
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Common questions

Related coverage timeline

NVIDIA plans a $3 billion Meta investment alongside a deeper Muse partnership
AI infrastructure competition increasingly involves both customers’ system architectures and capital relationships, connecting model growth, hardware deployment and financing.
NVIDIA discusses further investment in Firmus as the cloud provider turns to private funding
Continued financing determines AI cloud expansion, and supplier equity is becoming part of that funding structure.
Nvidia in talks to acquire or invest more in open-weight model maker Reflection AI, moving the chipmaker further into models
The better open models get, the more companies want to buy chips and run them in-house, which gives a chip seller reason to nurture models itself.
Nvidia plans to invest in inference chip rival d-Matrix, bringing a competitor's chips into its own racks
Nvidia's answer to alternative chips is to absorb rivals into its own system; what it is defending now is the standard for the whole rack.
Optical interconnect company CScale exits stealth with a $145 million Series C, with Nvidia and Intel Capital investing
Chip giants investing in several interconnect startups at once are buying options, and for a startup, winning an investment and winning an order are different things.
Nvidia and SoftBank each pay their final $10 billion, completing OpenAI's last funding round
Fulfilled pledges only prove the money arrived; the more investors and suppliers overlap, the harder it is to tell how big real demand is.
GPU cloud provider GMI Cloud raises $668 million with Nvidia participating
Nvidia increasingly acts like the central bank of this compute build-out, selling chips, investing in buyers and backstopping them, so the chain's risk ultimately flows back to it.