Nvidia is reportedly buying Hugging Face for $13 billion, putting the default distribution point for open-weight models inside the company that already sells the hardware they run on.
The argument that small open models have quietly crossed the threshold where they're good enough for most production work, and that the frontier-model default is now a habit rather than a requirement.
a16z raised a dedicated $1.1 billion fund aimed at the hardware layer under AI — robotics, manufacturing, and the physical infrastructure the models run on. A notable move for a firm built on software margins.
Reuters reconstructs how Moderna and Merck got a therapeutic cancer vaccine to work after a hundred years of failed attempts at the same idea.