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Marvell agreed on 2 November 2026 to buy optical chip and networking equipment maker Lumentum in an all-stock deal valued at $115 billion including debt, one of the largest technology acquisitions on record.
On 3 September 2026 Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Hugging Face said it would remain an open platform, and the deal was expected to close in the first half of 2027 pending regulatory approval.
On 23 May 2026 Mistral AI said it had agreed to acquire Emmi AI, an Austrian physics-AI company whose large engineering models simulate power grids, injection moulding and car safety tests; more than 30 staff, including co-founder Johannes Brandstetter, are joining.
On 20 February 2026, ggml.ai — the founding team of llama.cpp — joined Hugging Face, which is to provide long-term resources while ggml and llama.cpp stay 100% open source and community-run.
On 2 February 2026 SpaceX acquired xAI in an all-stock deal. A memo to employees put the combined company at $1.25 trillion, and LSEG data showed it to be the largest merger on record. The AI unit was renamed SpaceXAI in July 2026.
On 3 December 2025 Anthropic said Claude Code had reached $1 billion in run-rate revenue, and agreed to acquire Bun, a JavaScript runtime that had already worked with Anthropic on Claude Code's native installer.
On 21 May 2025 OpenAI announced it was acquiring io, the AI hardware startup founded by designer Jony Ive, in an all-stock deal valuing io at about $6.5 billion and putting Ive in charge of OpenAI's hardware and design work.
On 14 April 2025 Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics, the Bordeaux maker of the Reachy 2 humanoid robot, in the AI company's first move into hardware; the price was not disclosed.
AMD closed its purchase of ZT Systems, a New Jersey-based builder of AI and general-purpose computing infrastructure for hyperscale customers, on 31 March 2025, taking on about 1,000 design engineers while planning to sell ZT's US manufacturing business.
On 8 August 2024 Hugging Face announced it had acquired XetHub, a Seattle startup whose technology lets Git scale to terabyte-sized repositories by chunking and deduplicating data; Hugging Face planned to move the Hub off Git LFS onto a Xet-based backend.
In April 2024 NVIDIA agreed to acquire Run:ai, an Israeli maker of Kubernetes-based GPU orchestration software, reported at about $700 million. The European Commission approved the deal in December and it closed on 30 December 2024, with the software to be open-sourced.
On 21 December 2021 Hugging Face acquired Gradio, a Python library for building web demos of machine-learning models that Abubakar Abid had started in 2019 and that had been used to build more than 300,000 demos.
In June 2021 Hyundai Motor Group completed its purchase of a controlling 80 percent stake in Boston Dynamics from SoftBank, in a deal that valued the robot maker at US$1.1 billion.
On 7 December 2020, Aurora announced it was acquiring Uber's self-driving unit, the Advanced Technologies Group, with Uber investing 400 million dollars in Aurora and its chief executive joining Aurora's board.
On 9 June 2017 SoftBank Group announced that a subsidiary had agreed to buy Boston Dynamics from Alphabet, together with the Japanese bipedal-robotics company Schaft. The terms were not disclosed.
In December 2013 Google confirmed it had completed its acquisition of Boston Dynamics, the eighth robotics company it had bought in six months, as part of a robotics effort led by Andy Rubin.
In March 2012 Amazon agreed to buy Kiva Systems, a maker of warehouse robots used by large retailers, for about $775 million in cash — the company's second-largest acquisition at the time.
