Dropbox Plans $350M AI Infrastructure Deal With Tigris Buy, Its Biggest Acquisition Yet
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Dropbox’s largest-ever deal—$350M for Tigris—confirms that AI infra is now core strategy, not an add-on feature. Storage and collaboration vendors that don’t own their AI data plane will be at a disadvantage when customers demand agent-native workflows over simple file access.
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