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According to the Financial Times, citing sources familiar with the negotiations, a deal could be reached in the coming weeks, although the talks may also end without a result.
From acquiring the company to hiring the team
NVIDIA is already one of Reflection AI’s largest investors: according to the Financial Times, the company has invested $800 million in the start-up.
Options under consideration include a full acquisition of the business, further investment, or a so-called ‘acqui-hire’ deal. In the latter case, NVIDIA could hire the start-up’s staff and obtain a licence for its technologies without acquiring the company in its entirety.
Such an arrangement could provide access to the start-up’s developments and specialists without the lengthy due diligence process that might accompany a full takeover. However, the final structure of a potential deal has not yet been determined.
In April this year, Reflection’s CEO, Misha Laskin, stated that the start-up intended to raise new capital, with its valuation estimated at $25 billion.
Why is NVIDIA interested in Reflection AI?
Reflection AI develops artificial intelligence models with open weight matrices, which allow developers to adapt the technology to their own tasks and deploy it in a suitable computing environment.
The start-up was founded in 2024 by former Google DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou. The company is working on tools for software development automation — one of the fastest-growing areas of AI application.
NVIDIA’s interest grew after Reflection AI unveiled its first model with open weights – Beam – on 5 October 2026. According to the developer’s description, it is designed for programming, complex reasoning and performing tasks using AI agents.
The model contains 501 billion parameters, of which 23 billion are activated when processing an individual query. This architecture is designed to ensure high performance whilst making more efficient use of computational resources.
The development is also aimed at competing with Chinese AI models, which are attracting business attention thanks to their combination of performance and relatively low running costs.
For NVIDIA, strengthening its ties with Reflection AI could be a way to expand its presence in the AI ecosystem and bolster the position of American developers in competition with Chinese suppliers.
This story was translated with the assistance of artificial intelligence.The translation was also reviewed by the Logos Press editorial team.
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