TOKYO — U.S. chipmaker Nvidia is investing several billion yen (tens of millions of dollars) in Tokyo-based Sakana AI, a startup co-founded by former Google researchers, and will become a major shareholder, Nikkei has learned.
Sakana AI has been in talks with several well-known American venture capital firms to get investment, and now Nvidia will join them. As the race to develop generative artificial intelligence heats up globally, it’s an unusual deal to bring together a Japanese startup and an American semiconductor giant.
