NVIDIA's AI Investment Spree: Acquiring Poolside, Backing Mercor & Perplexity, and Anthropic's $30T Assumption
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| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Speaker | channel-20vc |
| Channel | AI 访谈 |
| Date | Aug 28, 2026 |
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| Format | Video |
| Topics | #llm · #founder-topic |
Why it matters
This episode dives into NVIDIA's recent flurry of AI investments, including the acquisition of coding agent startup Poolside and investments in Mercor and Perplexity. It also examines Anthropic's bold $30 trillion market assumption, revealing the strategic moves and capital logic shaping the AGI race among tech giants and startups.
Key takeaways
- NVIDIA is rapidly expanding its AI ecosystem through acquisitions and investments, solidifying its footprint beyond chips into software and services.
- Poolside, Mercor, and Perplexity represent the AI-driven transformation of coding, talent matching, and search.
- Anthropic's $30 trillion market assumption highlights the extremely high expectations for future AI returns.
- Capital is flooding into AI, shifting competition from model layers to infrastructure and vertical applications.
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英伟达AI投资狂潮：收购Poolside，押注Mercor与Perplexity，Anthropic的30万亿假设
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