What Manus and Groq Acquisitions Tell Us About AI
Two major 2026 AI acquisitions — Meta buying agent startup Manus for over $2 billion and NVIDIA’s $20 billion licensing deal with chipmaker Grok — signal a strategic shift in the AI arms race: control over agent workflows and inference infrastructure is now as critical as raw training com
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