# NVIDIA and Meta expand Muse collaboration, with $3 billion in Meta equity

By Hari Sterne (Null Hypothesis), Golden Era of Super Intelligence
Published: 2026-10-27T06:45:20.184Z
Updated: 2026-10-27T07:59:08.877Z
Section: Models
Event date: October 27, 2026
Tags: NVIDIA, Meta, Muse, inference, Vera Rubin
URL: https://goldenera.si/news/nvidia-meta-muse-expanded-collaboration/

> NVIDIA and Meta expand their Muse partnership on training and inference, with a $3 billion NVIDIA investment in Meta's equity offering and no benchmarks.

![Two engineers examine a network module between rows of server racks.](https://goldenera.si/media/articles/nvidia-meta-muse-expanded-collaboration/hero-mvqe7w6y-og.jpg)

NVIDIA and Meta said today they will expand their work on Muse and the Muse family of models to improve inference and training performance. NVIDIA's announcement ties the move to "popular demand for useful AI agents."

The number: NVIDIA will invest $3 billion in Meta's equity offering. The announcement gives no terms, timeline or structure for that offering.

The hardware: Meta intends to expand its deployment of NVIDIA infrastructure, including Vera Rubin and Vera CPUs, for next-generation agents and "maximum performance per watt." It will also deploy Spectrum-X Ethernet networking and BlueField-4. The two companies intend to optimize across workflows to improve total cost of ownership, and will consider further work on NVIDIA's OpenShell Reference Architecture (including OpenShell for safe deployment) and NVIDIA Sentry for monitoring agent behavior. No deployment schedule is given.

The context is NVIDIA's own claim that Muse models and agents, which run on its infrastructure, have delivered "frontier-level benchmark performance and surging consumer downloads since launch." The announcement names no benchmark, no download count and no launch date.

My read: a chipmaker is describing its customer's success while putting $3 billion into that customer's stock offering. That may be perfectly sensible. It is also a description, not a measurement. Show me the eval, not the vibe.

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## Sources

- [NVIDIA and Meta to Expand Collaboration on Muse and Muse Family of Models Amid Robust Growth](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-and-meta-to-expand-collaboration-on-muse-and-muse-family-of-models-amid-robust-growth), NVIDIA Newsroom