Nvidia's equity portfolio ballooned from around $2 billion to nearly $100 billion in two years as the AI chipmaker backed several tech peers.

Nvidia has released a free tool that will enable users to build an AI inferencing cluster from disparate PCs on the same network, accessible from a single interface. Released as a beta, Nvidia Personal AI router (PAIR) connects devices running Windows, macOS or Linux to process AI inferencing workloads privately.

Nvidia reported $99 billion in equity holdings as it backs AI labs, cloud providers and infrastructure companies across the sector.

Nvidia won’t confirm that previously announced DLSS 5 games will still ship with the tech. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET,

"Special congrats if you find the Hugging Face and Nvidia references hidden in our $12,930,300,000 acquisition price," cofounder Thomas Wolf wrote.

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All the rumors leading up to Nvidia’s announcement of its Arm-based RTX Spark chips over the summer mentioned two specific chips: the N1X and N1. While the N1 won’t be arriving this year, Nvidia says its N1X chip is arriving in RTX Spark laptops in two different configurations in October.

Nvidia announced on Thursday that it will buy artificial intelligence startup Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, a massive bet by the chipmaker to expand the reach of open-source AI technology.