26 tech companies and their biggest investments/acquisitions into the AI space.
$ORCL – Acquired ML platform Nor1 (Undisclosed) / Acquired cloud-based AI data engine DataFox (Undisclosed) / Invested $270 million into Cohere / Also Acquired Newmetrix/Vinnie (Undisclosed)
$IBM – Acquired Databand AI for $150 million / Acquired application provider Instana (Undisclosed) / Acquired Turbonomic’s for $1.5 billion / Acquired software company Apptio for $4.6 billion
$INTC – Acquired machine learning automotive operator Mobileye for $15.3 billion / To optimize high workloads they acquired Granulate Cloud Solutions for $650 million
$NOW – Acquired Parlo, Element AI, as well as chatbot specialist Passage AI / Acquired G2K for $500 million
$CSCO – Acquired BabbleLabs, Voicea, and Accompany (All Undisclosed) / Also bought Generative AI company Armorblox (Also Undisclosed)
$META – Acquired Scape Technologies (Undisclosed likely ~$40 million) / Acquired Atlas ML (Undisclosed) / Acquired synthetic data startup AI.Reverie (Also Undisclosed)
$MSFT – Invested $10 billion into OpenAI / Acquired Healthcare AI startup Nuance for $19.7 billion / Acquired Drawbridge (Via Linkedin) and Bonsai (Both Undisclosed)
$ACN – Acquired Japanese data science company Albert (Undisclosed) / Acquired machine learning company Tenbu for $200 million / Acquired AWS Premier Partner Nextira (Undisclosed) / Acquired Bengali industrial AI company Flutura (Undisclosed)
$AAPL – Acquired Xnor AI for $200 million / Acquired video-analyzer Vilynx (Undisclosed) / Acquired Laserlike ‘to make Siri smarter’ (Undisclosed) / Acquired video compression startup WaveOne (Undisclosed)
$NVDA – Acquired workload-management startup Run AI for $700 million / Invested $1.5 billion into UAE AI startup G42 / Many more huge portfolio!
$SAP – Acquired WalkMe for $1.5 billion all cash / Invests over $1 billion into AI focused venture fund Aleph Alpha
$TCEHY – Invested in AI chip startup Enflame (Undisclosed) / Acquired Chinese AI video creator Zenvideo (Undisclosed) / Participated in $300 million round for RaysightMed / Many more huge portfolio!
$BIDU – Launched a $145 million AI-focused venture capital fund / Acquired 91Wireless for $1.9 billion
$BABA – Invested $800 million into Moonshot AI / Invested $200 million into 01AI / Invested $600 million into Chinese AI startup MiniMax
$CRM – Launched a $500 million AI fund / Invested $200 million into Hugging Face / Invested $400 million into Anthropic / $100 million into Typeface / $50 million into Sylvera / Many more!
$ADBE – Acquired Figma for $20 billion / Acquired Indian GenAI startup Rephrase AI (Undisclosed)
$AMD – Acquired Europe’s largest private AI lab Silo AI for $665 million to compete with $NVDA
$TSLA – Acquired machine learning startup DeepScale for about $100 million / Acquired Maxwell Technologies for $207 million / Acquired Grohmann Engineering for $135.3 million
$SSNLF – Acquired Sonio for $92 million / They have invested billions into developing their own GenAI products for the Fold 6
$UBER – Acquired Mighty AI (Undisclosed) / Acquired NewYork based startup Geometric Intelligence to boost the self-driving car project (Undisclosed)
$SQ – Acquired conversational AI startup Eloquent Labs and AI integration platform Multiwoven (Both Undisclosed)
$PYPL – Created PayPal Ventures AI Fund (Undisclosed amount invested)
$SNAP – Acquired Ariel AI to boost their augmented reality initiatives (Undisclosed)
$SHOP – Invested $100 million into marketing AI startup Klaviyo / Invested in US based Crossing Minds
$ZM – Invested in Observe AI ($100 million round) and Anthropic (Both Undisclosed)
$AMZN – Invested $4 billion into Anthropic / Many more huge portfolio!
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