Author: Nick Patience

NVIDIA Nears $12.9B Deal for Hugging Face, Escalating AI Ecosystem Strategy
August 28, 2026

NVIDIA Nears $12.9B Deal for Hugging Face, Escalating AI Ecosystem Strategy

Nick Patience, VP & Practice Lead of AI Platforms at Futurum, shares his insights on NVIDIA's reported $12.9 billion bid for Hugging Face and what it would mean for the...
Google's Vertical AI Bet Governance Matters More Than Models
August 26, 2026

Google’s Vertical AI Bet: Governance Matters More Than Models

Nick Patience, VP & Practice Lead for AI Platforms at Futurum, examines Google Cloud's new vertical AI platforms for legal and financial services, and asks whether governed connectors can finally...
Runaway Token Costs Are Killing the Frontier AI Monolith
August 18, 2026

Runaway Token Costs Are Killing the Frontier AI Monolith

Futurum analyst Brad Shimmin breaks down the economic breaking point of cloud APIs and why enterprise AI is shifting to highly quantized, sovereign open-weights models....
Who Decides Which Model Runs NVIDIA Would Like a Say
August 11, 2026

Who Decides Which Model Runs? NVIDIA Would Like a Say

Futurum’s AI Platforms practice examines NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard....
Meta Reopens Its Models. Is This a PC Play or a Policy Play?
August 10, 2026

Meta Reopens Its Models. Is This a PC Play or a Policy Play?

Nick Patience, VP and Practice Lead, AI Platforms at Futurum, examines Meta’s return to open weights with Muse Glimmer and what Mark Zuckerberg’s superintelligence letter reveals about the company’s real...
From Experimentation to Execution: Platform Engineering for Scalable Generative AI
August 10, 2026

From Experimentation to Execution: Platform Engineering for Scalable Generative AI

In our latest thought leadership report, From Experimentation to Execution: Platform Engineering for GenAI, completed in partnership with Red Hat, Futurum Research covers why enterprise GenAI initiatives stall before reaching...
Inference Climbs to 71.7% of AI Platforms Infrastructure Spend by 2030
August 6, 2026

Inference Climbs to 71.7% of AI Platforms Infrastructure Spend by 2030

Nick Patience, VP & AI Practice Lead at Futurum, notes Managed inference hit 58.6% of AI platforms infrastructure in CY2025 and scales to 71.7% by CY2030, structurally inverting the 74/26...
Nscale Acquires Anyscale The Neocloud Land Grab Continues
July 31, 2026

Nscale Acquires Anyscale: The Neocloud Land Grab Continues

Nick Patience, VP & AI Platforms Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on Nscale’s acquisition of Anyscale, and whether owning open-source Ray software actually buys the neocloud any lock-in....
NVIDIA's Open Secure AI Alliance Bets Open Models Beat Closed Ones on Defense
July 28, 2026

NVIDIA’s Open Secure AI Alliance Bets Open Models Beat Closed Ones on Defense

Futurum’s Nick Patience, Fernando Montenegro, and Mitch Ashley unpack NVIDIA’s Open Secure AI Alliance and why the labs missing from it may matter more than the 35 that joined....
AI labor market impact 2026
July 22, 2026

AI Isn’t Coming for Your Job Yet – and Maybe Never Will

Despite rapid AI adoption, labor data shows no economy-wide jobs shock. Instead, a "hiring pause" is occurring, with entry-level roles facing the clearest squeeze. AI’s productivity dividend remains modest, hindered...
Microsoft and Mistral Expand Ties. Sovereignty, or Just Optionality?
July 22, 2026

Microsoft and Mistral Expand Ties. Sovereignty, or Just Optionality?

Nick Patience, VP & Practice Lead for AI Platforms at Futurum, unpacks Microsoft's expanded Mistral partnership and asks whether inference-only Foundry access and a multi-model sales pitch add up to...
Nokia's AI-RAN Platform Puts a Number on the Software-Defined RAN Bet
July 15, 2026

Nokia’s AI-RAN Platform Puts a Number on the Software-Defined RAN Bet

Nick Patience, VP & Practice Lead for AI Platforms at Futurum, unpacks Nokia's new AI-RAN platform launch with NVIDIA and asks whether its 2x spectral efficiency target by 2028 holds...

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