Nvidia invests $3 billion in Meta and deepens partnership on AI agent Muse
Nvidia is buying $3 billion of shares in Meta's capital raise. The two want to make Meta's Muse models faster and cheaper, with Meta relying more heavily on Nvidia chips.
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Nvidia is putting $3 billion into the share sale Meta is using to fund its AI build-out. At the same time, the two companies are expanding their work on Muse, Meta's personal AI agent launched in September, which can book travel, fill in forms and make purchases. Together they aim to make training and running the Muse models faster and cheaper. Meta will use more Nvidia technology in its data centres, including the upcoming Vera Rubin chips, Vera processors and Spectrum-X networking.
The companies will also consider working together on safety, for example with Nvidia's OpenShell tools for securely deploying AI agents and Sentry for monitoring their behaviour. "This changes how we use computers, from operating applications to working with intelligent agents," said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called Muse the way to bring "personal superintelligence to everyone".
Meta raised the common-stock portion of its offering from $22.5 billion to $25 billion, priced at $625 a share; with additional preferred securities the total could reach up to $37.5 billion. Muse has also run into problems recently, including a security flaw in its Mac app and a block by Amazon.