Releases

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.

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.

Oracle and Palantir partnered to make Palantir platforms available across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and combine cloud, data, and AI capabilities.

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.

NVIDIA and AWS announced broader Blackwell infrastructure and generative AI software integrations.

NVIDIA and Microsoft expanded integrations spanning Azure AI, NIM, Omniverse and enterprise generative AI.

Accenture and Cohere formed a strategic collaboration to deliver secure generative-AI solutions to enterprise customers.

Perplexity partnered with SK Telecom to distribute Perplexity Pro to the telecom company's users.

Microsoft and Mistral AI announced a multiyear partnership to make Mistral models available through Azure AI and collaborate on AI development and distribution.

Microsoft announces a multiyear partnership and €15 million investment in Mistral AI, bringing its models to Azure AI.

Perplexity and ElevenLabs launched the Discover Daily AI-generated news podcast.

The Browser Company partnered with Perplexity to make it a search-engine option in Arc.

Hugging Face and Google Cloud announced a strategic partnership integrating the Hub with Google Cloud infrastructure, Vertex AI, and TPUs.

Google Cloud and Samsung announce deployment of Gemini Pro and Imagen 2 for Galaxy AI features, while Gemini Nano powers on-device experiences.

IBM and Meta convened the AI Alliance to advance open, safe and responsible AI innovation.

OpenAI announced Sam Altman's return as CEO and an initial board chaired by Bret Taylor.

AWS and NVIDIA expanded their partnership around GPU infrastructure, DGX Cloud, NVIDIA software and future AI supercomputing.

OpenAI's board announced that Sam Altman would depart as CEO and Mira Murati would serve as interim CEO.

Google agrees to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic, deepening a strategic AI partnership that also includes Google Cloud infrastructure.

Claude became available to all Amazon Bedrock customers through the Anthropic-AWS partnership.

Amazon agreed to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, with AWS becoming Anthropic's primary cloud provider and Trainium and Inferentia used for model development.