Nvidia Is Accelerating Its Investing Spree in AI Startups

It’s part of a growing string of bets on private artificial intelligence companies Nvidia has made across the world. At the company’s highly anticipated GTC event in Washington on Tuesday, Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang called out a number of private companies that his company’s taken stakes in by name, including the AI firm Perplexity, the Chinese autonomous vehicle company WeRide and the robotics startup Figure AI.