A brassy new venture capital investor, going by the ugly acronym Mang, has been making a lot of noise in Silicon Valley. Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia and Google, four of the five biggest US companies by market value, have become the dominant investors in the hottest artificial intelligence start-ups. In doing so, they have been increasingly muscling out the traditional Sand Hill Road VC merchants, who like to think they know best how to fund the future.
美國市值最大的五家公司中的四家——微軟(Microsoft)、亞馬遜(Amazon)、英偉達(Nvidia)和谷歌(Google),其首字母縮寫詞是難看的MANG——組成新的風險資本投資者“四人組”,財大氣粗地在硅谷頻頻出手,成為最熱門人工智能(AI)初創企業的主要投資者。在這么做的過程中,他們日益將傳統的沙山路(Sand Hill Road)風險投資商人排擠出局,而后者喜歡認為他們才最善于投資未來。