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Topic: acquisition

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Explore our coverage of acquisition — 13 curated articles, summaries, and related resources from the Inblix archive.

AMD buys AI chip startup Taalas to etch models directly into silicon, hits 17,000 tokens/sec — Inblix summary
Industry

AMD buys AI chip startup Taalas to etch models directly into silicon, hits 17,000 tokens/sec

The Register AI · Aug 10, 2026 · 2 min read

AMD isn't just shopping for faster chips. It's betting that the future of AI inference looks less like a general-purpos...

AMD buys Taalas to bake Llama 3.1 into silicon at 16,000 tokens per second — Inblix summary
AI News

AMD buys Taalas to bake Llama 3.1 into silicon at 16,000 tokens per second

The Decoder · Aug 7, 2026 · 2 min read

AMD is acquiring Toronto-based startup Taalas, a company that came out of stealth just last February with a genuinely w...

Okta shells out nearly $200M for Permiso to tame the boom in AI agent identities — Inblix summary
Startups

Okta shells out nearly $200M for Permiso to tame the boom in AI agent identities

TechCrunch AI · Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read

Okta is placing a big bet that the next wave of identity threats won't come from humans stealing passwords—but from aut...

Cyera drops $1B on Oasis Security as the AI agent identity crisis explodes — Inblix summary
Startups

Cyera drops $1B on Oasis Security as the AI agent identity crisis explodes

TechCrunch AI · Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read

Cyera isn't waiting around. Fresh off a $600 million raise at a $12 billion valuation, the data security firm is immedi...

Midjourney Buys Astrology App Co-Star and Its 4.3M Users in a Puzzling Pivot — Inblix summary
Startups

Midjourney Buys Astrology App Co-Star and Its 4.3M Users in a Puzzling Pivot

TechCrunch AI · Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read

Midjourney just made its weirdest move yet. The AI lab synonymous with Discord-based image generation has acquired Co-S...

Whatnot buys Shaped to fix live shopping's speed problem — Inblix summary
Startups

Whatnot buys Shaped to fix live shopping's speed problem

TechCrunch AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read

Live commerce has a discovery problem that traditional e-commerce never faced. When auctions close in minutes and inven...

OpenAI poaches Meta vet Vijaye Raji as CTO, acquires Statsig — Inblix summary
Product

OpenAI poaches Meta vet Vijaye Raji as CTO, acquires Statsig

OpenAI Blog · Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read

OpenAI is making a leadership grab that signals just how serious it is about turning lab breakthroughs into polished pr...

OpenAI buys Mac assistant Sky to put ChatGPT on your desktop — Inblix summary
Product

OpenAI buys Mac assistant Sky to put ChatGPT on your desktop

OpenAI Blog · Jul 12, 2026 · 2 min read

OpenAI isn't just trying to make its models smarter. It's trying to make them actually useful on your computer. The com...

OpenAI acquires ML tracking firm Neptune to sharpen its model training — Inblix summary
Product

OpenAI acquires ML tracking firm Neptune to sharpen its model training

OpenAI Blog · Jul 11, 2026 · 2 min read

OpenAI just made a quiet but telling acquisition, snapping up neptune.ai to stop guessing about what's happening inside...

Startups

MoEngage Acquires Aampe to Boost Customer Engagement with AI

TechCrunch AI · Jun 24, 2026 · 1 min read

MoEngage, a leading customer engagement software firm, has acquired Aampe, a San Francisco-based startup, in an all-cas...

Startups

DeductiveAI sold to Elastic for up to $85 million

TechCrunch AI · Jun 19, 2026 · 1 min read

DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, has been sold to Elastic for up to $85 milli...

Hugging Face acquires Pollen Robotics, will sell the $70,000 open-source Reachy 2 — Inblix summary
Research

Hugging Face acquires Pollen Robotics, will sell the $70,000 open-source Reachy 2

Hugging Face Blog · Apr 14, 2025 · 2 min read

Hugging Face just made its most direct bet yet that AI's next big platform shift is physical. The company has acquired...

Hugging Face buys XetHub to kill Git LFS on its 12PB model hub — Inblix summary
Research

Hugging Face buys XetHub to kill Git LFS on its 12PB model hub

Hugging Face Blog · Aug 8, 2024 · 3 min read

Hugging Face is acquiring XetHub, a Seattle startup founded by three ex-Apple engineers who built Apple's internal ML i...