Releases

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.

Rogo partnered with PitchBook to integrate private-capital intelligence into its finance AI platform.

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.

Rogo rolled out finance-focused Deep Research capabilities in collaboration with OpenAI.

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.

Speak reported more than 15 million learners worldwide when announcing its expanded language-course lineup.

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.

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.