Nvidia holds early talks to acquire or further invest in Reflection AI

Nvidia Corporation is in early talks to acquire open-weight model developer Reflection AI Incorporated or invest further in the startup, SiliconANGLE and Reuters reported, citing the Financial Times. According to people familiar with the matter, an agreement could be reached within weeks, although the negotiations could still fall apart. Bloomberg and PYMNTS also reported on the potential deal. [1][2][3][4][5][6]

The Financial Times described several possible structures for the transaction, SiliconANGLE reported. Nvidia could purchase Reflection AI outright, complete an acquihire to bring over its staff, or increase its existing equity stake alongside an expanded supply of computing power and chips. [1][2][3][4][5]

Reflection AI is an American artificial intelligence startup founded in 2024 by former Google DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou. The company builds open foundation models and automated software development tools, reaching a valuation of $25 billion as of June 2026. Nvidia previously made an $800 million investment in the startup. [7][9]

Nvidia is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and dominates the market for artificial intelligence hardware with products like its A100 and H100 Tensor Core graphics processing units. The company relies on its CUDA software framework alongside parallel processing hardware to power large-scale machine learning model training and inference. [8][10]