European Commission gives green light to Nvidia’s acquisition of Run:AI and imposes no additional conditions.
Nvidia is a big step closer to acquiring Run:AI. In April, Nvidia announced its intention to acquire the Israeli company for $700 million. The European Commission had given itself until today to investigate the impact of the acquisition on the AI industry. Nothing troubling came out of that investigation, so the Commission gave the green light, without imposing additional conditions on Nvidia.
Orchestration
Run:AI specializes in infrastructure management. It built an open source platform on Kubernetes for AI orchestration. That platform allows available GPUs to be “split up” and dynamically distributed across workloads. With demand for GPUs often exceeding supply, that allows companies to increase the efficiency of available infrastructure.
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Nvidia sees Run:AI as an interesting addition to its own DGX platform. The acquisition landed on the European Commission’s desk at the request of the Italian market authority. The European Commission’s verdict is that Nvidia “does not have the ability or incentive to impede the compatibility of its GPUs with rivals’ software.
American research
Nvidia responds with satisfaction to the EU ruling, saying in a statement that it welcomes RunAI with open arms. Although a big step has been taken, it is still too early to uncork the champagne. U.S. regulators also have yet to have their say. And that is no formality: two separate antitrust investigations are currently underway in the United States into Nvidia’s dominance in the AI industry.