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Lead DevelopmentFACT · 4/5•12 Sept '26•Via Ed Sim (IT/VC)

AI/Infra/VC News Roundup: AI Investments, Funding, Security

This newsletter from 'What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC' compiles recent AI, infrastructure, and venture capital news. It highlights trends in AI funding, including Gimlet Labs' $300M Series B at a $3B valuation with multiple tranches, and Clay's $115M Series D at $7.1B. It also covers the decline in AI spending among top enterprises, the increasing demand for AI compute, and the emergence of cybersecurity threats using AI, such as Anthropic's report on Iran's misuse of Claude. The roundup includes commentary on the AI infrastructure buildout, the acquisition of Miro for $1.355B, and the rise of physical AI deployments like Skild AI's $100M ARR. Overall, it reflects the dynamic and rapidly evolving landscape of AI technology, infrastructure, and investment.

•Gimlet Labs raised $300M Series B at $3B valuation, led by a16z, with money in at $2.5B, $3B and higher tranches.
•Clay raised $115M Series D at $7.1B valuation, with clients including Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Stripe, Visa, and UPS.
•AI spend among top 1% of businesses declined 10% in August to $7.2K per employee per month.

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FACT · 4/54 Sept '26· Via CNBC Technology

Nvidia's AI Investments Reach $99 Billion, Becoming Major Backer

Nvidia has become one of the world's largest corporate backers of AI companies, with its equity investments soaring to $99 billion as of July 26, up from $7 billion a year earlier. The chip giant committed over $40 billion in 2026 alone, financing rounds across the AI stack including frontier labs, neoclouds, and photonics startups. Recent deals include a $30 billion investment in OpenAI, a $2 billion investment in CoreWeave, and a $2 billion investment in Nebius. Nvidia also announced plans to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The company uses these investments to enhance its ecosystem, secure supply chains, and protect its CUDA moat, with 106% revenue growth to $96.2 billion in its fiscal second quarter.

•Nvidia's equity investments valued at $99 billion as of July 26, up from $7 billion a year earlier.
•Nvidia committed over $40 billion in 2026 for financing rounds across the AI stack.
•Nvidia announced plans to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion.

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FACT · 4/51 Sept '26· Via SemiAnalysis

Korea's $919B Sovereign AI Investment: Nvidia Wins, Hynix Loses

South Korea is pursuing a sovereign AI strategy built around a government-run 'Independent AI Foundation Model' tournament and a $919B plan to build 8.4GW of data center capacity by 2029 and 18.4GW by 2035. Five consortiums—Naver Cloud, LG AI Research, SK Telecom, NC AI, and Upstage—were initially selected; Naver was later disqualified for using Alibaba's Qwen encoders and replaced by Motif Technologies. Motif, a sub-30-person startup with just $17M raised and 768 B200s, trained what SemiAnalysis calls the best non-Chinese open source model but was eliminated in the latest round. Meanwhile, Nvidia is deepening ties with Korean conglomerates: SK Group committed to 2GW of Rubin systems, Naver signed on for 200MW, and Samsung plans an Nvidia-powered AI factory. Nvidia also announced a $500B MOU with major investors to finance AI compute infrastructure.

•South Korea announced a $919B investment to build 8.4GW of data center capacity by 2029 and 18.4GW by 2035.
•The government's Independent AI Foundation Model tournament selected five consortiums in August 2025; Naver was later disqualified for using Alibaba's Qwen encoders.
•Motif Technologies, a sub-30-person startup with $17M raised and 768 B200s, trained the best non-Chinese open source model but was eliminated in the latest round.

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FACT · 4/51 Sept '26· Via CNBC Technology

Meta's AI Investments Pay Off via Ads and New Agent

Meta Platforms is showing evidence that its massive AI investment is yielding returns, according to two new research reports. Bernstein highlights that AI is helping Meta capture a larger share of digital ad dollars, with ad revenue growing 27% year-over-year in Q2 2026, outpacing Google's network and gaining two percentage points of market share. Bank of America points to Meta's upcoming consumer AI agent, Hatch, which could open new revenue streams beyond ads, with a potential premium subscription tier priced up to $199.99 per month. However, Meta remains the worst-performing megacap tech stock this year, down over 12%, as investors question the ROI. The company raised its capex guidance midpoint to $137.5 billion and agreed to pay up to $18 billion to settle youth addiction claims. The report suggests Meta may need a public cloud business to monetize excess computing power.

•Meta's ad revenue increased 27% year-over-year in Q2 2026, per Bernstein.
•Meta is developing a consumer AI agent called Hatch, expected to run inside Instagram and WhatsApp.
•Meta is considering a premium subscription tier for Hatch priced up to $199.99 per month.

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FACT · 4/527 Aug '26· Via CNBC Technology

Jensen Huang Defends Nvidia's AI Investments

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defended the company’s expanding financial support for AI startups during an interview on CNBC’s Mad Money, calling investments in frontier AI labs a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity and saying the risk to Nvidia is low because its compute infrastructure can be redeployed. The company has invested across the AI ecosystem, including model makers such as OpenAI and Anthropic, backed a $105 billion compute campus in Ohio where OpenAI will be a tenant, and helped arrange up to $500 billion in potential financing for data centers with Wall Street firms. Nvidia reported fiscal Q2 2027 revenue of $96.2 billion, with data center revenue of $89 billion, and projected roughly 70% revenue growth for fiscal 2028. Critics have raised concerns about so-called “circular financing.”

•Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defended the company's growing role in financing AI companies in a CNBC interview.
•Nvidia has invested in AI model makers including OpenAI and Anthropic.
•Nvidia provided financing tied to a $105 billion compute campus in Ohio where OpenAI will be the tenant.

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FACT · 4/53 Aug '26· Via Hello China Tech

Alibaba's AI Investments: Models, Cloud, and Chip Holdings

The article analyzes Alibaba's multi‑pronged AI portfolio and the lack of a consolidated accounting that links equity stakes, cloud demand, and infrastructure costs. In mid‑July, Moonshot AI launched the Kimi K3 model (2.8‑trillion parameters) and quickly paused new consumer subscriptions after hitting compute limits. Two days later Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8‑Max. Days after those model events, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) debuted in Shanghai with a dramatic first‑day rise; Alibaba owns large CXMT holdings via subsidiaries. The author documents Alibaba’s stakes across many independent AI model companies (Moonshot, MiniMax, Kling/Kuaishou) and notes that value from equity, cloud sales, and hardware costs are recorded in separate ledgers with little public reconciliation.

•Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8‑trillion‑parameter model, on July 17; high demand led Moonshot to pause new consumer subscriptions within 48 hours.
•Alibaba launched the Qwen3.8‑Max Preview on July 19, positioning it against the same coding‑agent and enterprise API market as K3.
•ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) began trading in Shanghai and closed at Rmb 49; Alibaba holds 2.995 billion CXMT shares through two subsidiaries (reported closing value ~Rmb 147bn).

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FACT · 4/530 Jul '26· Via techcrunch

Investors Favor Cloud Hosts as Amazon Boosts AI Capex

Amazon reported stronger-than-expected Q2 results on 2026-07-30, driven by a 37% year-over-year increase in AWS revenue and a nearly 10% after-hours stock jump. The company spent $173 billion on property and equipment for the fiscal year ended June 30 (up from $107.65 billion the prior year), raised its 2026 capex forecast from $200 billion to $220 billion, and recorded its first period of negative free cash flow this year with $7.6 billion less cash than a year earlier. The article argues investors currently prefer cloud hosts with clear revenue (like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google) while remaining skeptical of large AI labs and companies with heavy capex but unclear monetization (e.g., Meta). It highlights Amazon’s investments in chips (Trainium TPU and Arm-based Graviton) and warns that long-term demand for AI compute will determine whether the buildout is sustainable.

•Amazon reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings; its stock rose nearly 10% in after-hours trading.
•Amazon spent $173 billion on property and equipment for the fiscal year ended June 30, up from $107.65 billion the prior year.
•Amazon raised its 2026 capex forecast from $200 billion to $220 billion.

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FACT · 4/529 Jul '26· Via Manager Magazin

Meta stock plunges after high AI investment guidance

Meta reported strong ad-driven results but sent shares lower after management signaled cautious near-term expectations and stepped up AI spending. Quarterly revenue rose 28% year-over-year to $60.8 billion, though net income fell 14% to $15.85 billion. Meta missed EPS expectations ($6.18 vs $7.22), and guided next-quarter revenue to $61–64 billion versus analysts' roughly $63 billion, prompting an about 7% after-hours decline. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is accelerating investment in AI and data-center capacity, raising the lower bound of multi-year capex guidance from $125 billion to $130 billion (upper bound $145 billion); Meta spent roughly $72 billion on capex in 2025. The company also set aside about $2.4 billion for legal disputes, and its family of apps served about 3.6 billion people during the period.

•Guided next-quarter revenue of $61–64 billion versus analysts' roughly $63 billion.
•EPS $6.18 versus analysts' $7.22; stock fell about 7% after hours.
•Raised lower bound of multi-year AI capex guidance to $130 billion (upper $145 billion); spent about $72 billion on capex in 2025.

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FACT · 4/527 Jul '26· Via Trending Topics

Nvidia Invests Billions in Safe Superintelligence Startup

Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), the AI startup founded by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia, which includes a "substantial" investment reported to be around $5 billion. SSI, which has no product, revenue, or demo, will gain access to Nvidia's upcoming Vera Rubin compute platform, aiming to increase its computing power tenfold. The startup, valued at $32 billion, has raised approximately $7 billion to date, including a $2 billion round led by Greenoaks. Nvidia's investment is part of a broader strategy of backing AI labs like OpenAI, xAI, and Anthropic, raising concerns about circular financing. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praised Sutskever's research, while Sutskever stated that SSI's research is "worthy of scaling up." The deal signals a major bet on AI infrastructure and research, with no timeline for a product launch.

•Nvidia made a substantial investment in Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), with Bloomberg reporting about $5 billion.
•SSI will get access to Nvidia's Vera Rubin compute platform, aiming to increase compute by an order of magnitude.
•SSI, founded in June 2024 by Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, and Daniel Levy, has a valuation of $32 billion.

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FACT · 4/514 Jul '26· Via OpenAI Blog

Managing AI investments in the agentic era

OpenAI outlines five practical recommendations for enterprise leaders to manage AI investments as teams adopt longer-running, agentic workflows. The post highlights past model cost reductions (a 97% drop in price per million tokens from GPT‑4 to GPT‑5.4) and performance gains in GPT‑5.6 (54% fewer output tokens and 57% less time per task on an internal index). Recommended actions include improving visibility into usage and spend, evaluating model efficiency by outcome ROI, governing advanced workflows before scaling, funding workflows that compound, and matching capacity to proven demand. The guidance points to OpenAI enterprise features (ChatGPT Work, updated Admin Console analytics and spend controls), deployment support (Deployment Engineers / Deploy.co), and privacy options such as Zero Data Retention for high-trust environments.

•OpenAI reports a 97% reduction in price per million tokens from GPT‑4 to GPT‑5.4.
•GPT‑5.6 reportedly achieved 54% fewer output tokens and 57% less time per task on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index.
•OpenAI recommends five investment practices: visibility into usage/spend; evaluate model efficiency by outcome ROI; govern advanced workflows before scaling; fund compoundable workflows; and match capacity to demand.

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FACT · 4/58 Jul '26· Via Lebensmittelzeitung

Amazon to Raise $25B Debt for AI Investments

Amazon plans to issue new debt securities to raise $25 billion to expand its artificial intelligence activities, according to a report published by Lebensmittelzeitung on 2026-07-08. The proceeds are intended to fund further investments in AI development and related infrastructure. The announcement positions Amazon alongside other large companies increasing capital allocations to AI initiatives.

•Amazon intends to raise 25 billion US dollars via new debt securities (bonds).
•Proceeds are earmarked to finance the expansion of Amazon's AI activities and investments.
•The report was published by Lebensmittelzeitung (Redaktion LZ) on 2026-07-08.

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