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Friday, 4 September 2026

Thinking Machines in talks for $1B at $40B valuation as Mira Murati’s AI lab races ahead

Tech Funding News 1 month ago 5 ● 2 sources

Thinking Machines is negotiating a $1 billion funding round at a valuation of at least $40 billion, according to The Information. Nvidia is in discussions about joining the round, on top of Accel leading. The company’s valuation target has dropped from earlier $50 billion talks and it now rests more on its shipped open-weight model Inkling and compute partnerships than on past leadership pedigree.

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Nvidia’s Hugging Face deal is a bet on open models — and proof it’s no longer just a chip company

SiliconANGLE 1 month ago 15 ● 2 sources

Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, making the open model hub part of Nvidia’s business rather than treating it as just a chip supplier. Hugging Face runs a library of more than 3 million models and hosts about 18 million developers and researchers. The acquisition is expected to fund enterprise-focused tooling for safety evaluation, deployment, and inference so more companies can move from testing open-weight models to production.

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