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AI in 2026: A Tale of Two AIs

Sequoia by David Cahn 3 December 2025, 00:00

The investment world is reassessing how AI demand, supply constraints, and adoption will play out in 2026. The article’s key forecast is a shift from startups forming a “$0 to $100M” club in 2025 to a “$0 to $1B” club in 2026. Adoption keeps rising, while data center buildouts and expectations for an AGI timeline are expected to face delays.

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2026 will be the “Year of Delays” for data centers and AGI; it will also see accelerating AI adoption by end-users.

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Nvidia’s $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face is the day’s loudest signal that “open models” are becoming infrastructure. The deal, completed September 2, moves the French-founded platform entirely into US ownership, just as Hugging Face itself reports a library of more than 3 million models and roughly 18 million developers. The question now isn’t whether open-weight tooling works, but who gets paid once it turns into enterprise operations—safety evaluations, deployment pipelines, and inference in production. Nvidia’s play is to sit closer to the workflow than a box of GPUs ever could, and it pairs neatly with new Personal AI Router (PAIR), which aims to spread agentic sub-tasks across your home machines by clustering and redistributing work when nodes drop.

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