Releases

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.

Legora reported more than 400 law-firm and in-house customers in over 40 markets, alongside a team of nearly 200.

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.

OpenAI and NVIDIA announced a strategic partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI infrastructure.

CoreWeave and NVIDIA agreed on a strategic collaboration to scale GPU infrastructure and accelerate AI innovation.

Anthropic agreed to a proposed $1.5 billion settlement with authors and publishers over pirated copies of books used in model development.

Sierra reported hundreds of customers across financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, retail and consumer services.

Warner Bros. Discovery filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney.

The U.S. defense department awarded Scale a five-year production agreement with an initial $100 million ceiling for data operations, computer vision, GenAI, and Donovan capabilities.

xAI and X filed a U.S. federal antitrust suit alleging that Apple and OpenAI conspired to disadvantage rival generative-AI products and Grok in App Store distribution.

EliseAI reported that full-time headcount had grown from 150 to more than 300 since its Series D.

Cohere announced former Uber executive Francois Chadwick as chief financial officer alongside its funding round.

Co-founder Igor Babuschkin left xAI to launch an investment firm focused on AI safety research.

Black Forest Labs and Microsoft made FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] and FLUX1.1 [pro] available through Azure AI Foundry.

AWS added OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b to Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker AI.

Perplexity integrated OpenTable so users could find and book restaurant reservations from answers.

Palantir and the U.S. Army consolidated contracts into an enterprise agreement with a ceiling of up to $10 billion over ten years.

Gannett joined Perplexity's publisher program, broadening licensed news participation.

OpenAI and Oracle agreed to develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional U.S. Stargate data-center capacity.

xAI launched its government suite and announced a U.S. Department of Defense agreement with a $200 million ceiling, plus availability through the GSA schedule.

Ilya Sutskever took over as chief executive after co-founder and former CEO Daniel Gross left the company; Daniel Levy became president.

Meta consolidated its frontier AI efforts into Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang with Nat Friedman overseeing AI products and applied research.

Crusoe and Redwood Materials announced a large second-life EV-battery deployment intended to support modular AI infrastructure.

Oracle and xAI made Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini available through OCI Generative AI.

Abridge reported partnerships with more than 150 enterprise health systems in the United States.

Google transfers the A2A protocol project to the Linux Foundation to support neutral, industry-wide governance.

Harvey and LexisNexis partnered to integrate primary law, Protégé, and Shepard's citations and co-develop legal workflows.

Crusoe announced a collaboration with AMD to bring additional AI cloud infrastructure and accelerated-computing options to market.

Founder and CEO Alexandr Wang left day-to-day management to join Meta’s AI efforts while remaining a Scale director; Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege became interim CEO.

Meta made a $14.3 billion non-voting minority investment in Scale AI and expanded the companies' commercial relationship; Scale was valued above $29 billion.

Disney and Universal filed copyright litigation challenging Midjourney's model training and outputs.

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.

Glean reported that its agent platform was powering more than 100 million agent actions annually.

Applied Intuition and OpenAI announced a strategic collaboration to integrate frontier AI models into vehicle intelligence and accelerate next-generation mobility applications.

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.