Releases

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.

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.

Rogo partnered with Preqin to integrate private-markets data and intelligence into finance workflows.

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.

Applied Intuition reported that 18 of the world's top 20 automakers used or trusted its mission-critical vehicle intelligence products.

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.

The Joint Commission and Palantir announced an AI partnership focused on healthcare quality and safety.

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

xAI, TWG Global, and Palantir formed a partnership to deploy AI products and workflows across financial services.

Meta said more than one billion people use its AI products each month.

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

Anthropic joined Palantir FedStart to accelerate deployment of Claude capabilities to U.S. government customers.

Adobe Ventures made a strategic investment in Synthesia as enterprise adoption of AI video accelerated.

Crusoe was identified as the builder of the first phase of the OpenAI-led Stargate AI data-center project in Abilene, Texas.

Databricks and Google Cloud expanded joint go-to-market and product integrations for Gemini models and enterprise AI.

Krea reported a team of 17 employees following its Series B.

Krea reported more than 20 million organic users.

Genspark said its first-generation AI Search product had reached five million users, then shifted focus to the more general Super Agent.

Databricks and Anthropic established a partnership to offer Claude models natively through the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

Fireworks added support for NVIDIA NIM microservices and compatible models on its inference platform.

Perplexity expanded its SoftBank partnership to launch Enterprise Pro in Japan.

Databricks and Palantir partnered to combine data intelligence, ontology, and AI application capabilities.

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.

Together AI reported that its AI Acceleration Cloud was used by more than 450,000 developers.

At launch, Thinking Machines Lab was reported to have approximately 30 employees, including a number of former OpenAI researchers and engineers.

Abridge reported deployments at more than 100 U.S. health systems.

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.

Rogo partnered with Crunchbase to bring private-company and funding intelligence into its AI Analyst.

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.

Rogo integrated S&P Capital IQ data into AI-powered financial workflows.

Speak reported more than 200 Speak for Business customers and an average employee adoption rate of 85%.

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.