$3 billion. That is what Nvidia will pay for a slice of Meta Platforms’ equity offering, part of a wider deal the two companies announced Tuesday around Muse, Meta’s AI assistant, according to Reuters.
Muse already runs on Nvidia machines. Now the engineering gets closer. Better performance is the aim, and lower costs too, Reuters reported.
Inside Meta, Muse goes by another name, Hatch. For chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, it is not a side project. He has tied it to his goal of bringing “personal superintelligence” to the billions of people on Meta’s services every day, according to Reuters.
OpenClaw, an open-source agent, gave Muse its starting point. The assistant can tap a person’s email and calendar. Payments, health, shopping and smart-home apps are in reach as well. None of that is locked in — a user can revoke access whenever they choose, Reuters reported.
Then there is the raise itself. Meta lifted it Tuesday to $97.5 billion. No fundraising in the company’s history has been larger, and the money is meant to keep its AI infrastructure build-out moving, according to Reuters.
The first version was smaller. Dow Jones Newswires reported a plan for up to $95 billion, to be sold in waves. About $35 billion came first. The common-stock tranche later grew to $25 billion, with Class A shares at $625 each and depositary shares at $50, Dow Jones reported.
Chips and processors are where much of that cash points. Meta intends to deploy more Nvidia infrastructure for its next generation of agents, including Vera Rubin and Vera central processing units, the companies said in a statement reported by Dow Jones Newswires.
A second line of work may follow. The companies could explore Nvidia’s OpenShell framework together, looking at safe software rollouts and at Sentry, a tool that monitors what AI agents do, Reuters reported.
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