Alibaba Video Model Wan 3 Launches; Nvidia in Talks to Invest in Perplexity

The pairing matters more than either item alone: a Chinese cloud giant pushing frontier video generation while the dominant AI compute vendor weighs backing a search challenger shows the competitive field is widening beyond text and chat. Video generation raises the content-authenticity and provenance questions that text models largely sidestepped, and any Nvidia-Perplexity tie-up would signal that search, not just model training, is becoming a strategic battleground. Whether the reported talks conclude, and how rivals respond on video, are the open questions worth watching.