(Updates)
** Shares of small AI firms rally after the world's most
valuable chipmaker Nvidia NVDA.O discloses stake in some of
them
** Shares of SoundHound AI SOUN.O rally 51.3% to $3.41
after NVDA discloses stake worth around $3.7 mln in SOUN, which
offers voice AI for businesses
** Other smaller AI stocks C3.ai AI.N up 3.2% and
BigBear.ai BBAI.N add 5.2%
* Arm Holdings ADRs ARM.O O9Ty.F rise 1.1% after Nvidia
reveals stake worth $147.3 mln
** Recursion Pharma RXRX.O rises ~10% as NVDA reveals
stake of around $76 mln in the drug developer, which
strengthened its AI focus last year by snapping up two companies
in the AI-driven drug discovery space
** Nvidia's other latest investment includes a stake worth
nearly $380,000 in Israel-based medical imaging tech provider
Nano-X Imaging NNOX.O and $3.04 mln stake in autonomous
driving technology co TuSimple Holdings TSPH.PK
** NNOX shares rise 63% to $10.36
(Reporting by Sruthi Shankar and Mariam Sunny in Bengaluru)
((sruthi.shankar@thomsonreuters.com;))