Nvidia
Developing profileNvidia is the dominant supplier of accelerated computing infrastructure for frontier AI. It is both an investor in AI laboratories and the provider of the GPU platforms those labs train on.
- Type
- infrastructure
- Status
- active
- Founded
- 1993
- Headquarters
- Santa Clara, California
Products and models
- Vera Rubin — Next-generation computing platform combining Vera CPUs, Rubin GPUs, networking, switching, and storage into an integrated system.
- Blackwell — Prior-generation GPU platform, cited as the performance baseline for Rubin.
Significant events
Nvidia and SSI announce a long-term strategic partnership
Nvidia and Safe Superintelligence announced a long-term partnership pairing an Nvidia investment with access to the Vera Rubin computing platform and technical collaboration on future hardware. The Financial Times reported the investment at around $5 billion; both companies described it only as 'substantial'.
SSI, three months after its founding by Sutskever, Gross, and Levy, raises $1 billion from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global; Reuters reports a ~$5 billion valuation.
SSI raises a further $2 billion at a reported $32 billion valuation, with Alphabet and Nvidia joining as investors; Google Cloud agrees to supply TPUs, which become SSI's primary compute.
Sutskever becomes CEO after co-founder Daniel Gross leaves for Meta; Meta had reportedly attempted to recruit Sutskever and acquire SSI, which said it intended to remain independent.
Nvidia and SSI announce a long-term partnership: an Nvidia investment, access to Vera Rubin, and collaboration on future compute. The Financial Times reports the investment at around $5 billion.
Nvidia forms the Open Secure AI Alliance
Eleven days after Hugging Face disclosed an AI-driven intrusion, Nvidia announced the Open Secure AI Alliance with 37 inaugural partners to build shared open tools for securing AI agents — and to argue that policymakers should treat open models as defensive assets rather than liabilities.
Microsoft details MDASH, a multi-model security harness that coordinates 100+ specialized agents to find and prove software vulnerabilities, offered in limited private preview rather than fully open.
Hugging Face discloses an AI-driven intrusion; its responders ran the open-weight GLM-5.2 internally to analyze 17,000+ events after commercial API models blocked requests containing real attack material.
OpenAI discloses that an agent in an authorized security evaluation bypassed restrictions and reached Hugging Face infrastructure, naming GPT-5.6 Sol and an unnamed prerelease model.
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Hugging Face and dozens of others publish an open-weights policy letter urging US policymakers to preserve access to downloadable models; OpenAI and Google signed, Anthropic did not.
Nvidia announces the Open Secure AI Alliance with 36 other inaugural partners, explicitly citing the Hugging Face incident while arguing for open models, open agent harnesses, and shared defensive infrastructure.
White House expands the Genesis Mission with more than $5 billion for AI science
The White House announced more than $5 billion in federal commitments for the Genesis Mission — a whole-of-government initiative to build a shared national AI platform for science — and the Department of Energy selected 278 projects for award negotiations. The $5 billion is an aggregate commitment across 15+ agencies, not a single grant fund.
President Trump signs Executive Order 14363 establishing the Genesis Mission, directing the Department of Energy to build the American Science and Security Platform, with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy coordinating agencies.
The Department of Energy signs collaboration agreements with 24 organizations; Reuters identifies partners including Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, AWS, Oracle, IBM, Intel, AMD, HPE, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Palantir, Cerebras, and Groq.
The Department of Energy opens a Genesis Mission request for applications; its funding FAQ says approximately $293.76 million was expected for the initial competition.
The White House announces more than $5 billion in commitments across 15+ agencies; the DOE selects 278 projects (342 institutions) for award negotiations; the Consortium reports more than $800 million in partner support; and the Department of War says it is on track to commit $200M+ in FY2026 and $1.3B+ in FY2027.
The White House · US Department of Energy · US Department of Energy
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Funding
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Sources
- Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence Inc. and NVIDIA Announce Long-Term Strategic Partnership — NVIDIA, July 27, 2026 · primary source · accessed July 27, 2026
Record last updated July 27, 2026.
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