{"id":476842,"date":"2026-05-09T20:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/476842\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T20:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:10:14","slug":"nvidia-has-already-committed-40b-to-equity-ai-deals-this-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/476842\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia has already committed $40B to equity AI deals this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nvidia (NVDA<\/a>) continues to be a major investor in the AI ecosystem, committing more than $40 billion to equity investments in AI companies \u2014 and that\u2019s just in these early months of 2026, according to CNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Much of that total comes from a single bet, a $30 billion investment in OpenAI<\/a>. But CNBC reports that the chipmaker has also announced seven multi-billion dollar investments in publicly traded companies, most recently deals to invest up to $3.2 billion in glassmaker Corning and up to $2.1 billion in data center operator IREN.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve previously rounded up Nvidia\u2019s investments in AI startups<\/a>, including 67 venture deals in 2025. And according to FactSet data, it\u2019s already participated in around two dozen investment rounds in private startups in 2026.<\/p>\n

The fact that Nvidia has been investing in some of its own customers has led to the recurring criticism that these are circular deals<\/a> moving money back-and-forth between the same companies.<\/p>\n

Wedbush Securities analyst Matthew Bryson said Nvidia\u2019s investments fall \u201csquarely into the circular investment theme,\u201d but suggested that if successful, they could help the company build a \u201ccompetitive moat.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nvidia (NVDA) continues to be a major investor in the AI ecosystem, committing more than $40 billion to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,18,19,8435,17,292,72499,82,208859],"class_list":{"0":"post-476842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-investments","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-nvidia","16":"tag-publicly-traded-companies","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-venture-deals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116546438828531837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}