Nvidia, Snowflake Fuel Reka AI's Leap

Reka AI, a Sunnyvale startup founded by ex?Google GOOG and Meta META researchers, just closed a 110 million dollar round with Nvidia NVDA and Snowflake SNOW backing them. In one shot their valuation shot past the billion?dollar mark.

What's cool is that Snowflake almost bought them last year but decided to stay partners instead. CEO Dani Yogatama says that means Reka's language models will soon be woven right into Snowflake's cloud offerings.

Hitting unicorn status this fast in the world of large language models is almost unheard of. With a chip?maker and a data?platform giant in their corner, Reka's set to speed up new releases and go head?to?-head with the big leagues.

Keep an eye out for their next model launch and how deeply they plug into Snowflake's ecosystem. Those moves will show if Reka AI can really shake up the AI landscape.