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Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity valuing it at $30B+, after weighing a tech licensing deal and staff hires, as Perplexity hits $750M+ in ARR (The Information)
Nvidia is negotiating an equity investment that would value AI startup Perplexity at more than $30 billion after the company reached over $750 million in annual recurring revenue and Nvidia evaluated a technology-licensing deal and staff transfers. Nvidia also announced its Groq 3 LPX inference accelerator has entered full production, with Nebius as the first customer, while SpaceX will deploy Vera CPUs for its own AI workloads.