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title: "Nvidia is in early talks to buy or invest more in Reflection AI, the Financial Times reports"
url: https://anawords.com/story/nvidia-reflection-ai-acquisition-talks-report
published: 2026-10-12T12:53:35+05:30
updated: 2026-10-12T12:53:35+05:30
section: Business & Funding
author: Mayank Sahu
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# Nvidia is in early talks to buy or invest more in Reflection AI, the Financial Times reports

Options reportedly include a full purchase, a bigger stake or a hire-and-licence deal. Neither company has commented. Reflection released its 501-billion-parameter open-weight model Beam days earlier.

**In short:** The Financial Times reported on 10 October 2026 that Nvidia is in early talks to acquire Reflection AI or invest more in it, possibly through a hire-and-licence deal. The talks could still collapse, and neither company has commented. Nvidia has invested $800 million in Reflection, the FT says.

## What is reported

The Financial Times reported on 10 October 2026 that Nvidia is in early talks to acquire Reflection AI or to invest more in the US start-up, according to people familiar with the matter.[^1] An agreement could come within weeks, but the talks could still collapse, the FT said.[^1]

This is a single report. Neither Nvidia nor Reflection has commented publicly.[^1]

## The options described

According to the FT, as summarised by SiliconANGLE:[^1]

- Nvidia buys Reflection outright, or increases its stake, possibly with more chips and computing power.
- An acqui-hire, in which Nvidia hires Reflection’s staff and licenses its technology without taking control. The FT said this would likely avoid a long regulatory review.

## Nvidia and Reflection so far

Nvidia led Reflection’s $2 billion funding round in October 2025, and the FT says it has invested $800 million in total.[^1][^2] Reflection’s chief executive Misha Laskin told CNBC in April that its latest round valued the company at $25 billion before the new money, SiliconANGLE reports.[^1] Reflection was founded in 2024 by Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou, both formerly at Google DeepMind.[^1]

## Reflection’s new model

Days before the report, Reflection released Beam, an open-weight mixture-of-experts model with 501 billion parameters aimed at coding, reasoning and agent tasks.[^1][^2] AI Business reports that Reflection says Beam was trained on 23.8 trillion tokens.[^2] Neither source gave a licence or benchmark scores.[^2]

## What to watch

Whether a deal is announced, which form it takes, and whether competition regulators review it.

## Fact ledger

- [Unconfirmed] Nvidia is in early talks to acquire or invest more in Reflection AI. (source 1)
- [Unconfirmed] A hire-and-licence deal is one of the options discussed. (source 1)
- [Reported] Nvidia has invested $800 million in Reflection. (source 1,2)
- [Reported] Reflection released Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weight model. (source 1,2)
- [Not known] Whether a deal will be signed, and on what terms.

## Sources

1. [SiliconANGLE: Nvidia reportedly in early talks over Reflection AI](https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/11/nvidia-reportedly-in-early-talks-to-buy-acqui-hire-or-invest-more-in-reflection-ai/)
2. [AI Business: Reflection’s Beam model](https://aibusiness.com/foundation-models/reflection-s-beam-model-signals-deepening-split)