Nvidia Acquires CentML

NVIDIA Acquires OctoAI

September 25, 2024

AI & Machine Learning

NVIDIA has acquired Seattle-based OctoAI, a startup that provides tooling and infrastructure to build and run generative AI models. The deal — reported at roughly $165 million before adjustments and with potential incentives that could push consideration higher — brings OctoAI's ML compiler and model-serving technology and team into NVIDIA to bolster its AI infrastructure offerings.

AMD Acquires Nod.ai

October 10, 2023

AI & Machine Learning

AMD has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Nod.ai, an open-source AI compiler and code-generation software specialist, to advance AMD's open AI software ecosystem and optimize AI models for AMD accelerators and processors. The deal brings Nod.ai's team and SHARK/Torch-MLIR/OpenXLA expertise into AMD to accelerate deployment of high-performance AI solutions across cloud, edge and endpoint platforms.

Nvidia Acquires Solver (formerly Laredo Labs)

September 3, 2025

AI & Machine Learning

Nvidia has acquired Solver, a three-year-old AI coding-agent startup (originally Laredo Labs) that builds agents to manage repositories and carry out end-to-end software development tasks. Solver had raised about $8 million (including from Radical Ventures); terms were not disclosed. The deal expands Nvidia’s AI software stack and developer tooling capabilities to complement its hardware and platform offerings.

Centroid Systems Acquires Intelletive

March 7, 2024

IT Services

Centroid Systems, a Troy, Michigan–based cloud and managed services provider, has acquired Intelletive, a Minneapolis-based DevOps and technology consulting firm that also maintains the open-source Kubernetes security platform m9sweeper. The deal enhances Centroid's capabilities in DevSecOps, Kubernetes, AI/ML and full‑stack development and appears to be an add-on acquisition that expands the platform's technology services offering.

NVIDIA Acquires Run:ai

April 26, 2024

Cloud & SaaS

NVIDIA has acquired Run:ai, an Israel-based Kubernetes-native workload orchestration software provider that optimizes GPU resources for AI workloads. NVIDIA said it will continue offering Run:ai's products, integrate its capabilities into NVIDIA platforms (including DGX and DGX Cloud), and Run:ai's founders indicated the software will be open-sourced to broaden ecosystem access.

Nvidia Acquires Synthetic Data Startup Gretel

March 19, 2025

AI & Machine Learning

Nvidia has acquired synthetic data startup Gretel in a nine-figure deal, folding Gretel’s team of roughly 80 employees into Nvidia to integrate its synthetic-data platform into Nvidia’s cloud and generative AI services. The purchase price reportedly exceeds Gretel’s most recent $320 million valuation; Gretel provides a synthetic data platform and APIs used by developers and privacy-sensitive end markets such as healthcare and finance.