Acquisition

On 29 September, the AMD announced on 28 September that a final agreement had been signed for the acquisition of the World Labs created by Li Fei. The transactions were paid in equities, valued at approximately $8.2 billion, and were expected to be completed by 2026, after conditions such as regulatory approval had been met. At the end of the deal, Li Fei Fei will be Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist of AMD, reporting to CEO Sozito. World Labs develops space intelligence models that also study robotic learning based on text, image and video generation, reconstruction and simulation of interactive 3D environments..

On September 4th, YVD announced that it would buy $12.93 billion from the AI Developer Platform. Reuters reported that the deal would help Young Weidar move further into the open model ecology and directly connect the developers to a platform for sharing, testing and deploying AI tools. Young Weida CEO Wong In-hoon stated that Hugging Face would continue to be open to the entire AI ecology, supporting open source and open weight models, as well as cloudy and multiaccelerator deployments. Developers can still choose models, frames, cloud services, reasoning..

According to news from Business Insider today, on August 27, Yvesda has been negotiating the acquisition of Hugging Face, which could lead to one of the largest deals to date. According to an informed source, in recent weeks there has been a serious discussion on the acquisition deal, which will put the Hugging Face value at over $13 billion (note: the current exchange rate is approximately RMB 87,592 million). According to the source, the two companies had not yet reached an agreement and there was still a risk that the negotiations would break down. Hugging..

On July 27, according to Engadget, the Image Generation Company Midjourney is buying the constellation application Co-Star. The product of Co-Star is centred on astrological content and socialization alerts, and the user community does not entirely overlap with the audience of Midjourney ' s creative tools. The purchase price has not yet been disclosed. For Midjourney, the deal extends its business tentacles to content and social products for the general public. Co-Star CEO Banu Guler will take over

On July 24, according to the Wall Street Journal today, informed sources, Stripe, the overseas payment giant, is negotiating with OpenRouter, the world's largest AI polymer platform. According to the source, although the specific terms of the transaction have not yet been determined, OpenRouter ' s valuation may be close to $10 billion (note: the current exchange rate is approximately RMB 67.833 billion). By comparison, OpenRouter's estimate was only $1.3 billion when the financing was completed in May this year

On April 22nd, SpaceX announced today that a cooperation agreement has been reached with the AI programming tool Cursor, which will jointly develop the next generation of "Programming and Knowledge Work" AI. According to SpaceX's official statement, this collaboration will combine Cursor's leading product and distribution capabilities in the group of professional software engineers, and the computing power of the Colossus supercomputer under SpaceX, which is equivalent to 1 million British Weeds H100 cards. SpaceX also said that this year..

On December 30, the news was that today, Meta bought China ' s AI Initial Company, AI Agent Manus Developer, with billions of dollars, and issued a press release. This is the third major acquisition since Meta was founded, after whatsApp and Scale AI. When the deal is completed, the butterfly effect will remain independent and the founder, Xiao Hong, will be Vice President of Meta. It was also reported in Late Post that the acquisition negotiations were concluded quickly within more than 10 days. Butterfly effects..

REUTERS YESTERDAY REPORTED THAT INGWEIDA ANNOUNCED THAT IT WOULD SPEND $5 BILLION TO ACQUIRE SHARES IN THE INTEL CONVENTION 4% AND ENTER INTO AN IN-DEPTH COOPERATION AGREEMENT WITH IT COVERING PC AND DATA CENTRE CHIPS. NOT ONLY DID THIS MOVE MAKE INTEL AN IMPORTANT SHAREHOLDER, BUT IT ALSO MARKED A STRATEGIC ALLIANCE BETWEEN TWO AMERICAN CHIP GIANTS IN THE AI ERA. IN THE EARLY MORNING OF THIS MORNING, YING WEIDAR STATED IN HIS OFFICIAL TWEETS THAT HE WOULD PURCHASE THE INTEL STOCK AT A PRICE OF $23.28 PER SHARE, WHICH WAS SLIGHTLY LOWER THAN THE BOOK PRICE ON THE PREVIOUS DAY OF THE DEAL OF $24.90, BUT HIGHER THAN THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT'S PREVIOUS RATE OF 20.47 DOLLARS PER SHARE..

Za's Meta is actively seeking partnerships with AI video-generation technology startups, aiming to make a push into video generation, according to The Information. Sources close to the matter said that Meta recently held discussions with AI video startup Pika about potential collaborations, including possible acquisitions or technology licensing agreements. Meta has also discussed an acquisition with Higgsfield, another small creator-focused video generator, but talks have been suspended. Pika is reportedly ...

According to Bloomberg, Meta CEO Zuckerberg has extended his 'acquisition claws' to AI video-generation startup Runway AI - with Meta discussing with Runway the possibility of acquiring the latter. Sources close to the matter revealed that the above plan is currently on hold, and the deal has not yet reached the stage of a formal offer, nor has it discussed a specific acquisition amount. Runway was reportedly valued at more than $3 billion earlier this year. Recently, Meta was revealed to have offered acquisition talks to a number of AI companies. According to previous news, Zuckerberg has been criticized by Me...

April 17 (Bloomberg) -- OpenAI is in talks to acquire Windsurf, an AI-assisted programming tool formerly known as Codeium, for about $3 billion (note: the current exchange rate is about 21.967 billion yuan), according to people familiar with the matter. If successful, the acquisition would be OpenAI's largest ever, and would help it compete in the increasingly competitive market for AI-powered programming assistants. Such programming assistant systems are capable of writing code based on natural language cues. The know...

April 16, 2011 - In a blog post today (April 16), tech media outlet maginative reported that OpenAI has announced the acquisition of the team at Context.ai, a GV-backed startup known for evaluating and analyzing AI models. Context.ai co-founders Henry Scott-Green (CEO) and Alex Gamble (CTO) will join OpenAI to focus on developing model evaluation tools. 1AI inquired about the public ...

On March 20, Wired reported that Nvidia has acquired San Diego-based startup Gretel, which develops a platform for generating synthetic AI training data. Terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed, but the purchase price is reportedly in the nine-figure range, which is more than Gretel's recent valuation of $320 million (note that the current exchange rate is about 2.314 billion yuan). USD 320 million (note: current exchange rate is around RMB 2.314 billion). Gretel was founded in 2019 by Alex Watson,...

According to a report by Blue Whale News on November 20, model track startup Biancai Technology confirmed that it has been acquired by Ant Group, and the company will operate independently, but the investor has already withdrawn. The report mentioned that there is news that Ant Group has recently set up a reinforcement learning laboratory, and the founder of the border technology, Wu Yi, has been employed as the chief scientist of the laboratory. Wu Yi responded in a circle of friends on the event of joining the ants, saying: "Recently invited by the ants to do ants big model reinforcement learning direction of the research, my teaching in the Tsinghua University Institute of cross-information, as well as the edge of the science and technology are continuing. Ant has a very good big model application scene, I hope to make an impact together...

Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Red Hat announced its acquisition of startup Neural Magic in a Nov. 12 announcement, but did not disclose details of the deal. Neural Magic was founded in 2018 by Alex Matveev, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Nir Shavit, a professor. In a blog post, Red Hat describes the company as a "generative AI inference pioneer" that focuses on improving the ability of general-purpose processors to run AI models to a level comparable to that of TP.... It aims to improve the ability of general-purpose processors to run AI models to a level comparable to TP...

According to the Form 8-K document submitted by entertainment technology company Xperi to the US SEC on the 14th of this month, Amazon.com Services LLC will buy most of the assets and certain liabilities of Xperi subsidiary Perceive for US$80 million (currently about RMB 571 million). Amazon.com Services LLC is Amazon Services LLC, one of the core companies of Amazon Group. Perceive is a…

AMD recently acquired AI infrastructure company ZT Systems for $4.9 billion, aiming to increase the market adoption of its own Instinct data center chip. ZT Systems is a partner of big AI companies such as Microsoft, Meta and Amazon, specializing in providing customized computing infrastructure. This acquisition is undoubtedly an important strategic layout for AMD. AMD CEO Lisa Su said that this acquisition will greatly accelerate the deployment of AMD AI solutions. …

AMD officially announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Silo AI, the largest private AI laboratory in Europe, for approximately US$665 million (currently approximately RMB 4.773 billion), paid in full cash. At this point, Silo AI's scientists and engineers have officially joined the AMD family. AMD's emphasis on the field of AI is self-evident. This acquisition is an important step in its strategic layout, aiming to further strengthen the company's leadership in AI and related technologies. Like technology giants such as Google, Meta, and Apple, AMD …

According to Bloomberg, on Friday local time, the founders of AI unicorn company Character.AI, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and some members of the research team joined Google. The report quoted unnamed insiders as saying that existing investors will buy out the company's shares at a price of US$2.5 billion (currently about RMB 17.964 billion). This is higher than the previous valuation of the company of US$1 billion (currently about RMB 7.186 billion)...

Samsung (July 18) issued a press release announcing the acquisition of Oxford Semantic Technologies, a British knowledge graph startup, to further enhance local AI capabilities and provide users with a more personalized AI experience. According to public information, Oxford Semantic Technologies was founded in 2017 by Ian Horrocks, Boris Motik and Bernardo Cuenca Grau…

According to Graphcore's official website, the troubled British AI chip company has been acquired by SoftBank. According to the agreement, Graphcore will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of SoftBank and continue to operate under its current name. The two parties did not disclose the specific transaction value. Graphcore was founded in Bristol, a city in southwest England in 2016, and has launched several generations of AI workload accelerators called Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU for short). Graphcore was once regarded as "…

On June 21, local time, OpenAI announced the completion of its acquisition of Rockset, a database retrieval and analysis company. The company will integrate Rockset's technology and personnel to strengthen the retrieval infrastructure of various products. OpenAI emphasized in a press release that AI will have the opportunity to change the way people organize and use their own data, which is why the company acquired Rockset. The latter is a real-time analysis database that provides "world-class" data indexing and query functions. It is reported that Rockset will enable users, developers and enterprises...

Recently, according to people familiar with the matter, Microsoft has agreed to pay about $650 million in cash and reached an unusual agreement with Inflection AI. This acquisition will bring more talent and technical resources to Microsoft and further enhance its competitiveness in the field of artificial intelligence. According to the agreement, Microsoft will obtain the right to use Inflection's large model and bring most of its employees under its command, including its co-founders Mustafa Suleyman and Karen Simonyan. These two have rich experience and influence in the field of artificial intelligence...

According to foreign media SiliconANGLE, Nvidia intends to acquire AI infrastructure virtualization startup Run:ai, with the transaction amount up to US$1 billion (currently about RMB 7.2 billion). Run:ai's workload management platform of the same name was recently the first to obtain Nvidia DGX SuperPOD certification. Its AI orchestration technology can help users easily run AI and machine learning projects to meet the growing requirements for generative AI and large models. Run:ai is led by its CEO Omri Geller (O…