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How much are Nvidia’s rivals investing in startups? We investigated

Nvidia isn't the only AI chipmaker investing in startups. Its rivals -- Intel, AMD and Arm -- are too. Here's to what extent.

Intel also directly invested in four startups last year (GenAI vendor Aleph Alpha and Hugging Face among them) and one (Vanguard Semiconductor) in 2022, per Crunchbase — bringing its grand total deal count to 36 in 2023 and 48 in 2022. Last year, AMD Ventures made a single investment, participating in the Series A for Ethernovia, a startup building a family of ethernet chips and software. But it’s clear that Nvidia, one of the world’s most valuable companies with control of about 95% of the market for AI chips, is playing for keeps — attempting to shore up dominance by spreading its financial influence far and wide.

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