The investment is part of a broader strategic collaboration between the world's leading AI chipmaker and Safe Superintelligence, the startup co-founded by former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever. While the companies announced the partnership on Monday, they did not disclose the financial terms of the agreement.
According to a person familiar with the deal, Nvidia's equity investment amounts to $5 billion, making it one of the chipmaker's largest strategic investments in an AI startup.
The partnership is expected to significantly expand SSI's computing capabilities, providing the company with additional resources needed to develop next-generation artificial intelligence systems.
Beyond the financial investment, the agreement gives Safe Superintelligence access to Nvidia's latest Vera Rubin AI computing platform, one of the company's most advanced hardware systems designed to support increasingly complex AI training and inference workloads.
The companies said the additional computing capacity would help accelerate SSI's research and development efforts as it pursues its mission of building powerful and safe artificial intelligence systems.
People familiar with the matter said the partnership was negotiated and finalized within a matter of weeks, highlighting the urgency surrounding investments in AI infrastructure as technology companies compete to secure access to cutting-edge computing resources.
Bloomberg was first to report the size of Nvidia's equity investment.
The deal further reinforces Nvidia's central role in the global artificial intelligence ecosystem, with the company continuing to invest not only in AI hardware but also in startups developing the next generation of advanced AI models and technologies.