Modern artificial intelligence is often presented as a story of algorithms, models, and software. This view is useful, but it is incomplete. #Artificial_Intelligence grows through a wider #Innovation_Ecosystem that includes venture capital, semiconductor design, cloud infrastructure, universities, skilled workers, data providers, regulators, and users. This article studies Accel and NVIDIA as two examples of how different actors support the growth of modern AI. Accel represen

The announced acquisition of Manus by Meta offers a useful academic case for understanding how large technology firms compete in the age of #Artificial_Intelligence. From a business perspective, such acquisitions are rarely only about buying a single product. They are also about gaining #technical_knowledge, talented research teams, intellectual property, data capabilities, and future strategic options. This article studies the Meta–Manus case as an example of #innovation_str