Releases

Microsoft announces a multiyear, multibillion-dollar extension of its OpenAI partnership covering supercomputing, model deployment and Azure commercialization.

OpenAI and Microsoft announced a multiyear, multibillion-dollar extension of their partnership, including Azure supercomputing investment and exclusive cloud-provider status.

Midjourney and Spellbrush launched the Niji model collaboration focused on anime and illustration.

Speak reported nearly 100,000 paying subscribers and double-digit millions of dollars in annual recurring revenue.

The U.S. government awarded Scale a contract vehicle worth up to $249 million to make its AI data and development capabilities available across federal agencies.

AWS founder Andy Jassy succeeded Jeff Bezos as Amazon's chief executive officer.

Databricks and Google Cloud launched Databricks on Google Cloud, completing availability across the three major clouds.

AWS and Facebook jointly released TorchServe, an open-source model-serving library for PyTorch.

Scale began supporting U.S. defense and national-security AI programs, extending its data infrastructure into government missions.

The completed Red Hat acquisition established the hybrid-cloud and open-source platform underpinning IBM's later AI portfolio.

Microsoft and Databricks announced Azure Databricks, a first-party Apache Spark analytics service on Azure.

Microsoft and Facebook introduce the Open Neural Network Exchange format to improve model interoperability across AI frameworks.

AWS selected MXNet as its preferred deep-learning framework and committed engineering investment to the open-source project.

Co-founder Ali Ghodsi became chief executive officer of Databricks.