Sequoia urges portfolio companies to own AI model weights, not rent them from closed providers
“companies want to own their intelligence. They want to own not rent their weights.”
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Google DeepMind released Gemma 4, a new family of open models in four sizes.
“In some situations, you want to own the model. You want to be able to run on your own hardware.”
NVIDIA's Jensen Huang showcased broad European enterprise AI adoption at GTC Berlin 2026
“they're all European companies, and they're all working with Nvidia on AI”
Jensen Huang frames AI infrastructure as token factories driving a European AI economy
“What do L'Oreal, Revolute, Spotify, Merc, Vodafone, Zara, Porsche, Nestle, and HSBC have in common? Well, they're all European companies and they're all working with Nvidia on AI.”
India's BharatGen launched government-owned multilingual AI models across 22 languages, backed by NVIDIA Nemotron.
“Anyone who stands for open source is, partner for life.”
The open model ecosystem is diversifying globally, with more orgs like Zyphra, Cohere, and Poolside releasing models beyond the early Chinese-dominated landscape.
“Attempts to slow or ban this ecosystem are not only futile, as the history of tech-related bans has shown, but also unsafe and anti-freedom.”
Microsoft extends Foundry Local to run agentic AI fully disconnected for sovereign and enterprise environments.
“AI needs to be operated fully disconnected while still um delivering real time situational awareness and decision support.”
Firebird plans 250 MW of NVIDIA AI infrastructure across Armenia and Kazakhstan within 12 months
“No nation can outsource all of its intelligence.”
Infosys is building sovereign AI clouds and physical AI solutions on NVIDIA's full NeMo stack.
“We are working on physical AI, which we think is the next big wave.”