Where Nvidia’s $100 Billion Dealmaking Juggernaut Will Go Next

Where Nvidia’s 0 Billion Dealmaking Juggernaut Will Go Next

By Valida Pau,Phoebe Liu
Publication Date: 2026-10-07 13:00:00

This July, Nvidia caught wind of a looming takeover of OpenRouter, a three-year-old startup that had emerged as a popular marketplace for AI models, including many cheaper open-source ones. Databricks and Stripe had already been talking to the startup about a potential sale. Nvidia was late to …