Releases

Perplexity partnered with Wiley to make trusted educational content available through AI-powered search.

xAI, TWG Global, and Palantir formed a partnership to deploy AI products and workflows across financial services.

Meta said more than one billion people use its AI products each month.

Perplexity partnered with Motorola to pre-install its app and integrate Perplexity Assistant into Moto AI on new devices.

Anthropic joined Palantir FedStart to accelerate deployment of Claude capabilities to U.S. government customers.

Crusoe was identified as the builder of the first phase of the OpenAI-led Stargate AI data-center project in Abilene, Texas.

Databricks and Google Cloud expanded joint go-to-market and product integrations for Gemini models and enterprise AI.

Databricks and Anthropic established a partnership to offer Claude models natively through the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

Perplexity expanded its SoftBank partnership to launch Enterprise Pro in Japan.

Databricks and Palantir partnered to combine data intelligence, ontology, and AI application capabilities.

CoreWeave entered a long-term agreement to provide AI infrastructure to OpenAI, with a contract value of up to $11.9 billion.

The U.S. Defense Innovation Unit selected Scale to lead Project Thunderforge with Anduril and Microsoft, integrating AI agents into operational military planning.

Scale entered a five-year partnership with Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to deploy AI applications, analytics, automation, and workforce programs across government.

At launch, Thinking Machines Lab was reported to have approximately 30 employees, including a number of former OpenAI researchers and engineers.

Mistral AI reported one million Le Chat mobile app downloads; downloads are an adoption proxy, not unique active users.

Microsoft and OpenAI update their partnership structure while preserving Microsoft rights to OpenAI intellectual property and Azure API exclusivity.

OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX announced Stargate, a new company intended to invest $500 billion in US AI infrastructure over four years.

Cursor stated that the editor was used by millions of programmers; value records a conservative two-million lower bound.

Secondary-source estimate of Runway's 2025 workforce.

The Government of Canada announced up to C$240 million to support Cohere's Canadian AI compute capacity project.

Harvey announced integrations with Microsoft SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Word.

Perplexity expanded its publisher program with 15 additional media organizations.

Amazon committed an additional $4 billion to Anthropic, bringing its total investment to $8 billion and naming AWS Anthropic's primary training partner.

Anthropic, AWS, and Palantir announced availability of Claude models for U.S. intelligence and defense agencies through Palantir AI platforms.

Dow Jones and the New York Post sued Perplexity, alleging copyright and trademark violations involving publisher content.

Suno partnered with Audible Magic on content identification and rights-management technology.

Palantir expanded its Maven Smart System work with the U.S. government under a five-year agreement with a potential value up to $100 million.

Meta and EssilorLuxottica extended their long-term partnership to develop multiple generations of smart-eyewear products.

Microsoft, BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners and MGX form an investment partnership to mobilize capital for AI datacenters and supporting energy infrastructure.

Scale and the Center for AI Safety launched an international effort to create a broad expert-written benchmark for frontier AI systems.

Harvey and PwC co-developed jurisdiction-specific tax models for professional-services work.

Amazon hired Covariant's founders and a portion of its team and received a non-exclusive license to its robotic foundation models.

Perplexity partnered with Comcast to provide eligible Xfinity Rewards members a year of Perplexity Pro.

Harvey partnered with Icertis to bring generative AI into enterprise contract workflows.

Microsoft and Palantir partnered to deliver secure cloud, analytics, and AI capabilities to U.S. defense and intelligence agencies.

Google enters a non-exclusive technology licensing agreement with Character.AI and brings co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, plus members of their research team, into Google DeepMind.

Perplexity partnered with Uber to offer eligible Uber One members a complimentary year of Perplexity Pro.

Mistral AI and NVIDIA jointly released Mistral NeMo, a 12B multilingual open model with a 128K context window.

Anthropic and Menlo Ventures launched a $100 million fund to support early-stage startups building with Anthropic technology.

Perplexity collaborated with Amazon Web Services to launch and scale Enterprise Pro.

Amazon hired Adept cofounder David Luan and members of the team while licensing Adept's agent technology.

Major record labels filed copyright litigation concerning Suno's training practices.

Investigations alleged that Perplexity accessed publisher content despite robots.txt restrictions; Perplexity disputed aspects of the reporting.

Oracle and Google Cloud announced Database@Google Cloud and integration paths to Vertex AI and Gemini.

OpenAI and Apple announced integration of ChatGPT into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS experiences.

Forbes alleged that Perplexity had reproduced reporting without adequate attribution, beginning a broader public dispute over publisher content use.

Matt Garman succeeded Adam Selipsky as chief executive officer of Amazon Web Services.

Harvey partnered with Mistral AI to develop and deploy legal AI models.

Microsoft and Hugging Face expanded their collaboration around open models, Azure AI, and enterprise deployment experiences.

Anthropic appointed Krishna Rao as Chief Financial Officer.