The European Commission (EC) has approved Nvidia's proposed acquisition of Run:ai.

The EC gave the green light for the acquisition on December 20, noting that it had "concluded that the transaction would raise no competition concerns in the European Economic Area."

The EC added that, while Nvidia holds a "dominant position" in the global market for GPUs used in data centers, it will have "neither the technical ability nor the incentive to hamper the compatibility of its GPUs with competing GPU orchestration software."

The commission adds that Run:ai does not have a significant position on GPU orchestration software today, and customers have access to sufficient alternatives.

Nvidia's interest in acquiring Run:ai first emerged in March of this year and was confirmed in April. Early reports suggested the deal could be valued at as much as $1 billion.

Run:ai is an Israeli start-up that helps to manage and optimize distributed AI deployments via its open platform built on Kubernetes. The solution supports the major Kubernetes variants, integrates with third-party AI tools, and can handle even data center-scale GPU clusters.

The platform can pool GPUs and share computing power for separate tasks via a centralized interface for managing the infrastructure.