If it is shown that a different funding structure to just venture capital is helpful in AI then implications could cascade to other industries.
Software is eating the world, as Marc Andreessen, founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, said, “but AI [artificial intelligence] is eating software,” according to chipmaker Nvidia, at its annual conference in May (picture of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiling its Volta chip at the May event).
As a result, there has been increased interest in all parts of the AI ecosystem and particularly the chipmakers, such as US-listed Nvidia, in which Softbank took a stake earlier this year through…
