Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met Rebellions CEO Sunghyun Park in Santa Clara this week to discuss a possible partnership, investment, or acquisition of the Korean AI inference chip startup, which is separately preparing a KOSPI IPO.
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Nvidia just sat down with a company built to challenge it. Jensen Huang met the CEO of Rebellions, a South Korean startup making AI inference chips, at Nvidia's own headquarters. The talks cover a partnership, an investment, or an outright acquisition. Rebellions has raised eight hundred fifty million dollars from SK Hynix and Samsung Ventures, valued at two point three billion. Here's the twist: Rebellions is also prepping an IPO on Korea's stock exchange, so Nvidia is trying to get inside this deal before that IPO locks in a valuation it can't touch. Any acquisition would face US antitrust review and Korean regulators. Nothing's signed yet. But the pattern holds: Nvidia keeps buying its way around the inference chip threat instead of simply out-competing it.