Releases

Databricks and Microsoft expanded integration across Azure Databricks, Microsoft 365 and governed enterprise agents.

Hugging Face and NVIDIA introduced a managed service for research organizations to access large GPU clusters for foundation-model training.

Perplexity partnered with European model providers to bring additional European AI models to global users.

Cohere announced work with the UK government to support secure AI adoption and public-sector productivity.

Cohere and the Government of Canada agreed to explore secure generative AI for public-sector operations.

Former Meta FAIR head Joelle Pineau joined Cohere as Chief AI Officer to lead research and model development.

Anthropic appointed Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings to its board of directors.

SAP partnered with Perplexity to add real-time web answers to the Joule enterprise assistant.

CoreWeave expanded its OpenAI infrastructure agreement by up to $4 billion, increasing the relationship’s contracted value.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Anthropic appointed Krishna Rao as Chief Financial Officer.

Anthropic appointed Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger as Chief Product Officer.

Microsoft invests $1.5 billion in G42 and expands a strategic partnership covering Azure, responsible AI, infrastructure and emerging-market deployments.

Command R+ became available first through Microsoft Azure alongside Cohere's hosted API.

Amazon invested an additional $2.75 billion in Anthropic, completing the $4 billion commitment announced in 2023.

Anthropic, AWS, and Accenture partnered to help enterprises, including regulated industries, deploy Claude-based solutions.

Microsoft enters an AI licensing arrangement with Inflection and hires Mustafa Suleyman, Karén Simonyan and members of the Inflection team to build Microsoft AI.

Microsoft forms the Microsoft AI organization focused on Copilot and consumer AI, appointing Mustafa Suleyman as EVP and CEO and Karén Simonyan as Chief Scientist.

Anthropic made Claude 3 models available to Google Cloud customers through Vertex AI.

Microsoft and NVIDIA expand integrations across Azure AI, NVIDIA NIM, Omniverse and enterprise generative-AI infrastructure.