Global chip giant and AI leader NVIDIA has once again made a significant acquisition in the software and application ecosystem beyond computing power. According to insiders, NVIDIA has recently officially completed the asset acquisition of Kumo AI, a four-year-old artificial intelligence startup. This move aims to further strengthen its competitive advantage in the core technology of enterprise-level AI business forecasting.

As the core assets of this acquisition, the three co-founders of Kumo AI, Vanja Josifovski, Hema Raghavan, and Jure Leskovec, have officially joined NVIDIA this month. These renowned technology experts from both academia and industry have now become "NVIDIA employees," seen by the outside as the most valuable "intellectual infusion" that NVIDIA values in this acquisition.

This four-year-old startup has long been dedicated to developing cutting-edge artificial intelligence foundation models. Unlike general large models focused on text generation or multimodal vision, Kumo AI focuses on vertical business applications, with its core strength lying in helping companies make extremely accurate business decisions through predictive models.

Industry analysts point out that as large model technology evolves from text and image creation to deeper industrial applications, the ability to directly convert into productivity and economic benefits—“precise prediction capability”—is becoming a new battlefield for major players. By acquiring Kumo AI's technical team and foundation models, NVIDIA is expected to integrate its predictive algorithms with its hardware computing power advantages, thus providing global enterprise customers with a full-stack AI solution ranging from computing power, underlying frameworks, to upper-level business decision predictions.