Releases

Microsoft and NVIDIA expand integration across Foundry agents, Azure AI infrastructure, NVIDIA accelerators and physical-AI workflows.

NVIDIA formed a coalition of AI labs to develop an open frontier model that will underpin the upcoming Nemotron 4 family.

Palantir and NVIDIA announced an integrated sovereign AI operating system combining NVIDIA accelerated computing and Palantir software.

Replit reported more than 50 million users building on the platform.

Thinking Machines was reported to have grown from about 30 employees to roughly 120 over its first year.

Thinking Machines and NVIDIA announced a multi-year partnership to deploy at least one gigawatt of Vera Rubin systems, alongside an NVIDIA investment.

CoreWeave announced an agreement to provide AI inference infrastructure for Perplexity.

Cohere joined Aston Martin Aramco as official generative-AI partner to support engineering and business innovation.

Amazon and OpenAI announced joint development of a stateful environment for long-running agents on Amazon Bedrock.

Amazon announced an initial $15 billion investment in OpenAI followed by up to $35 billion more under preset conditions.

OpenAI and Amazon announced a strategic partnership spanning investment, AWS compute, and distribution of OpenAI models and products.

Samsung partnered with Perplexity to integrate its APIs and AI search capabilities into Samsung devices.

Autodesk invested $200 million in World Labs and entered a strategic partnership to bring spatial-intelligence world models into 3D design workflows.

Anthropic named the Allen Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute as founding life-sciences partners to develop specialized AI agents and accelerate scientific discovery.

Suno stated that its team had grown to more than 250 people; value is recorded as a lower bound.

Modal became available through the AWS and Google Cloud marketplaces.

NVIDIA agreed to test and validate CoreWeave’s platform software and reference architectures to accelerate deployment of AI factories.

NVIDIA employee count reported for fiscal year-end 2026.

Lower-bound adoption proxy based on four customer organizations named in the source: RBC, Ensemble Health Partners, SAP and Oracle.

Reported Cohere workforce in January 2026.

Accenture and Palantir expanded their partnership around sovereign AI transformation and operating systems.

Deutsche Telekom and ElevenLabs partnered on enterprise voice-AI deployments.

Third-party database count of verified companies using IBM watsonx.

Lower-bound adoption proxy based on five major customers publicly named in 2026 reporting: OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Mistral and IBM.

Estimated DeepSeek workforce using its published company-size range; exact headcount is not disclosed.

Secondary-source estimate of Anthropic's 2026 workforce.

Crusoe's 2025 impact report said the company grew to 1,217 employees, more than doubling headcount for a second consecutive year.

Palantir customer count reported for year-end 2025.

Amazon reported that 250 million customers used Rufus during 2025.

Palantir employee count reported for year-end 2025.

Meta employee count reported for year-end 2025.

IBM reported 264,300 employees in wholly owned subsidiaries and 8,700 in less-than-wholly-owned subsidiaries.

Alphabet employee count reported for year-end 2025.

CoreWeave employee count reported in its 2025 Form 10-K.

Baidu-reported employee count at year-end 2025.

Amazon reported approximately 1,576,000 full- and part-time employees as of December 31, 2025.

xAI announced selection to deliver frontier AI capabilities for the U.S. Department of War.

Anthropic and the US Department of Energy announced a multi-year partnership supporting energy, life-sciences, and scientific-productivity work across national laboratories.

xAI and El Salvador announced a nationwide AI education program using Grok in the country’s schools.

Anthropic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation while retaining its open, community-driven governance model.

The New York Times filed suit alleging copyright infringement involving Perplexity's search and answer products.

Meta announced content partnerships to bring more real-time news and information into Meta AI responses.

AWS and NVIDIA announced infrastructure for deploying integrated AI factories in customers' own data centers.

Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology launched the Arabic-first ALIF AI fluency program with Scale AI for government professionals.

Cohere and SAP expanded collaboration to offer sovereign AI solutions for European customers.

Suno and Warner Music Group partnered on licensed next-generation music models and artist experiences.

Perplexity announced a partnership to provide its services to United States government users.

xAI signed a framework agreement with Saudi Arabia and HUMAIN covering Grok deployment, agent-platform integration and AI infrastructure.

Databricks became an early Microsoft Agent 365 partner, bringing governed Agent Bricks experiences to Teams, Outlook and Excel.

Microsoft and Anthropic expand their partnership, bringing Claude models to Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot.