
It’s the kind of crazily ambitious investment that seemingly only happens in Silicon Valley near the top of a hype cycle: a pre-product, lossmaking artificial intelligence start-up raises $1bn from SoftBank, Microsoft and Nvidia to fund a dizzying ambition for global domination. In fact, this deal was sealed in London last week when Wayve, which develops software for autonomous vehicles, announced Europe’s largest AI start-up fundraising.
這種瘋狂的雄心壯志的投資似乎只會(huì)在硅谷的炒作周期頂峰時(shí)發(fā)生:一家尚未推出產(chǎn)品、處于虧損狀態(tài)的人工智能初創(chuàng)公司從日本軟銀、微軟和英偉達(dá)(Nvidia)那里籌集了10億美元,以資助其全球霸權(quán)的令人目不暇接的野心。實(shí)際上,這筆交易是在上周倫敦達(dá)成的,當(dāng)時(shí)為自動(dòng)駕駛汽車開(kāi)發(fā)軟件的Wayve宣布了歐洲最大的人工智能初創(chuàng)企業(yè)融資。