Nvidia Corp. He is negotiating to increase investments in the AI startup Reflection AI or provide computing power in order to strengthen ties with a key developer of open source models. This is reported by foreign media.
Earlier, the startup introduced the first Beam model, with which developers publish model parameters, allowing other users to freely use and modify the technology. At the same time, the cost of the Beam is lower than that of many competitors, including the flagship open model GLM-5.2 from a Chinese company Z.AI .
In addition, Reflection has signed billion-dollar deals with SpaceX and cloud provider Nebius Group NV to provide computing power for the development of new models.
Nvidia uses financial opportunities to develop the AI industry as a whole. In particular, the company previously entered into an agreement to acquire Hugging Face for $13 billion and a licensing agreement with the Groq startup for $20 billion.
The development of Reflection technology in the United States may limit the use of Chinese open source models by startups, which are much cheaper to use than models from American companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, and at the same time are not much inferior in intelligence.
Nvidia Corp. is an American company manufacturing high-performance graphics processors (GPU) and systems-on-a-chip (SoC), as well as software for video games, high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, unmanned vehicles, etc. The headquarters is located in Santa Clara, California. The market capitalization is $5.5 trillion.
Reflection AI is an American AI startup in the field of automation of software development services for creating its own specialized systems. The headquarters is located in Brooklyn, New York.
