Nvidia is reportedly holding talks about making another investment in Perplexity AI, with the deal aimed at increasing the startup’s valuation. The Information says Perplexity could be valued at more than $30 billion, up from a $20 billion valuation from its last funding round about a year earlier. If completed, the investment would deepen Nvidia’s existing financial and strategic ties to Perplexity and extend its leverage in AI search infrastructure.
Taiwan indicted nine people, reportedly including an Nvidia senior manager and two Supermicro employees, over alleged document forgery tied to illegal exports of high-end AI servers to China. Prosecutors allege the scheme helped funnel $2.5 billion in restricted AI servers to China starting in 2024. The indictments and parallel investigations add new charges and widen scrutiny of how AI hardware and related components were routed around US export controls.
NVIDIA reported that Vera Rubin NVL72 systems deliver up to 30x higher agentic-workload throughput per megawatt than GB300 NVL72. The measurement used the SemiAnalysis AgentX workload and found up to 35x lower cost per million tokens. This shifts agentic AI deployment toward Vera Rubin by improving energy efficiency and lowering token costs while scaling tool-using, long-context agents.
Nvidia is reportedly in talks to invest in Perplexity at a valuation above $30B, following prior large funding rounds. The round would come after Perplexity’s $23B valuation in January 2026. It would lift Perplexity’s valuation by more than 50% and deepen Nvidia’s stake in an AI-agent-focused search business tied to GPU demand and usage data.
The article ranked CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda, Crusoe, and Groq as GPU “neoclouds” by published pricing and contracted power. Lambda’s B200 on-demand rate is listed at $6.69 per GPU-hour as the lowest published figure. Buyers are given a side-by-side view of rate cards, contract structures, and hardware roadmaps (including CoreWeave’s Platinum SemiAnalysis tier), rather than treating the “neocloud” label as one uniform offering.
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