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Nvidia has already committed $40B to equity AI deals this year

Sat, 09 May 2026 14:43:30 +0000

Originally published by TechCrunch

Nvidia continues to be a major investor in the AI ecosystem, committing more than $40 billion to equity investments in AI companies — and that’s just in these early months of 2026,according to CNBC.

Much of that total comes from a single bet,a $30 billion investment in OpenAI. But CNBC reports that the chipmaker has also announced seven multi-billion dollar investments in publicly traded companies, most recently deals to invest up to $3.2 billion in glassmaker Corning and up to $2.1 billion in data center operator IREN.

OpenAI Unveils GPT-5 with Multimodal Reasoning and Agent Capabilities

Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

OpenAI unveiled GPT-5 on Friday, its most capable artificial intelligence model to date, featuring native multimodal reasoning, autonomous agent capabilities, and what the company describes as “near-human” performance on professional-level reasoning benchmarks.

The new model can browse the live web, write and execute code in a sandboxed environment, analyze images and video, and hold coherent multi-turn conversations that span hours without losing context. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called it “a step change in what AI can do for people.”