Releases

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.

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

Saturn Cloud integrated its AI development platform with Crusoe Cloud for automated GPU provisioning, scaling and MLOps.

AWS and OpenAI announced a seven-year strategic infrastructure agreement for OpenAI workloads using EC2 UltraServers and NVIDIA GPUs.

OpenAI and AWS announced a multi-year strategic partnership under which OpenAI would access AWS compute infrastructure.

Google Cloud and Anthropic expand their infrastructure partnership, with Anthropic planning access to up to one million TPUs for Claude training and serving.

CoreWeave agreed to provide Poolside with a cluster of more than 40,000 NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 GPUs and support its Project Horizon AI campus.

Anthropic and Salesforce expanded their partnership to make Claude a preferred model for regulated Agentforce deployments.

Perplexity announced the initial media partners participating in Comet Plus.

A third OpenAI agreement added up to $6.5 billion, bringing total announced contract value with OpenAI to approximately $22.4 billion.

xAI expanded its government offering through GSA OneGov, making Grok reasoning models available to U.S. federal employees at negotiated pricing.

Cohere expanded work with AMD across model deployment, compute infrastructure and internal use of North.

OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank announced five new US Stargate data-center sites, moving planned capacity toward nearly 7 gigawatts.

The US General Services Administration added Meta's Llama models to OneGov to support federal-agency AI adoption.

OpenAI and NVIDIA signed a letter of intent to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems, with the first Vera Rubin gigawatt targeted for the second half of 2026.