Releases

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.

Synthesia reported more than 60,000 business customers at the time of its Series D.

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.

Glean reported a global workforce of more than 500 employees.

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.

Together AI and NVIDIA collaborated to make Llama 3.1 available to enterprises on NVIDIA DGX Cloud using Together's inference engine.

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.

Synthesia reported that more than 200,000 people had used its avatars to create over 18 million video presentations.

Together AI partnered with Meta to offer Llama 3 models for high-performance inference and fine-tuning at launch.

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.

Reported unique users of Baidu's ERNIE Bot in April 2024.

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.