Nvidia to Invest $3 Billion in Meta, Expand AI Partnership – The Elec Inc.

Nvidia to Invest  Billion in Meta, Expand AI Partnership – The Elec Inc.

By JEONG IL JOO
Publication Date: 2026-10-28 23:25:00

Nvidia and Meta are strengthening their collaboration on AI models. (Image: Nvidia)



Nvidia said Oct. 26 local time that it will invest $3 billion (approximately 3.98 trillion won) in Meta’s capital increase. Meta announced the same day that it would offer 250 million Series A depositary shares at $50 per share and $25 billion (approximately 33.2 trillion won) worth of Class A common stock at $625 per share.


The companies will collaborate to improve the training and inference performance of Meta’s Muse family of artificial intelligence (AI) models. The partnership will focus on optimizing Nvidia’s AI computing infrastructure for Muse, maximizing performance across AI computing workflows while reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of data centers.


Meta will expand purchases and deployment of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin AI computing infrastructure and Vera central processing unit (CPU) server racks in its data centers. It will also integrate Nvidia’s Spectrum-X high-performance Ethernet networking technology and BlueField-4 data processing units (DPUs). Meta plans to use Nvidia’s hardware and technologies to efficiently handle large-scale AI computing workloads.


Meta is also considering adopting Nvidia’s OpenShell reference architecture, which provides infrastructure covering the development and operation of AI agents. It combines Nvidia hardware with OpenShell, a secure runtime software platform. The companies are also discussing the use of…