
Nvidia has reportedly acquired Gretel, a San Diego-based startup that’s developed a platform to generate artificial AI coaching knowledge. Phrases of the acquisition are unknown. The value tag was stated to be 9 figures, exceeding Gretel’s most up-to-date valuation of $320 million, according to Wired.
Gretel and its workforce of roughly 80 staff will likely be folded into Nvidia, the place its tech will likely be deployed as a part of the previous’s swimsuit of generative AI providers for builders, Wired reported.
Gretel was founded in 2019 by Alex Watson, Laszlo Bock, John Myers, and Ali Golshan, who additionally serves as the corporate’s CEO. The startup fine-tunes fashions, provides proprietary tech on high, after which packages these fashions collectively to promote them.
Gretel raised greater than $67 million in enterprise capital from buyers together with Anthos Capital, Greylock, and Moonshots Capital previous to its exit, based on Crunchbase.
Nvidia’s acquisition is strategic — and well timed. Tech giants like Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic are already utilizing artificial knowledge to coach flagship AI fashions as they exhaust sources of real-world data.