Jensen Huang Acquires Run:ai for $700M, Open-Sources GPU Tech
NVIDIA acquires Run:ai for $700M, open-sources GPU management tools, boosting AI startups with intuitive platforms and driving GPU efficiency to 80%.
At the start of 2025, Jensen Huang Gave Everyone a $700 Million "Red Packet"!
Jensen Huang just spent $700 million in cash to acquire a startup specializing in GPU management tools.
He immediately announced: that all platforms and technologies would be open-sourced, and free to use with the purchase of NVIDIA GPUs.
Classic Huang—spending "small money" to achieve big results.
NVIDIA's New Acquisition
The company NVIDIA recently acquired is called Run:ai, founded in 2018, with investors including Tiger Global, Insight Partners, and Sequoia Capital.
Over seven years, Run: ai has developed products focused entirely on one thing: how to use GPUs—not for personal PCs but for AI and industrial training computation tasks, including development, management, and configuration tools.
In simple terms, Run: ai offers a comprehensive open platform based on Kubernetes (Google’s open-source container orchestration engine), providing GPU management tools.