Releases

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The Government of Canada announced up to C$240 million to support Cohere's Canadian AI compute capacity project.

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.

Dow Jones and the New York Post sued Perplexity, alleging copyright and trademark violations involving publisher content.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Microsoft invests $1.5 billion in G42 and expands a strategic partnership covering Azure, responsible AI, infrastructure and emerging-market deployments.

Command R+ became available first through Microsoft Azure alongside Cohere's hosted API.

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.

Anthropic made Claude 3 models available to Google Cloud customers through Vertex AI.

Microsoft and NVIDIA expand integrations across Azure AI, NVIDIA NIM, Omniverse and enterprise generative-AI infrastructure.

NVIDIA and AWS announced broader Blackwell infrastructure and generative AI software integrations.

NVIDIA and Microsoft expanded integrations spanning Azure AI, NIM, Omniverse and enterprise generative AI.

Accenture and Cohere formed a strategic collaboration to deliver secure generative-AI solutions to enterprise customers.

Perplexity partnered with SK Telecom to distribute Perplexity Pro to the telecom company's users.

Microsoft and Mistral AI announced a multiyear partnership to make Mistral models available through Azure AI and collaborate on AI development and distribution.

Microsoft announces a multiyear partnership and €15 million investment in Mistral AI, bringing its models to Azure AI.

Perplexity and ElevenLabs launched the Discover Daily AI-generated news podcast.

The Browser Company partnered with Perplexity to make it a search-engine option in Arc.

Hugging Face and Google Cloud announced a strategic partnership integrating the Hub with Google Cloud infrastructure, Vertex AI, and TPUs.

Google Cloud and Samsung announce deployment of Gemini Pro and Imagen 2 for Galaxy AI features, while Gemini Nano powers on-device experiences.

IBM and Meta convened the AI Alliance to advance open, safe and responsible AI innovation.

OpenAI announced Sam Altman's return as CEO and an initial board chaired by Bret Taylor.

AWS and NVIDIA expanded their partnership around GPU infrastructure, DGX Cloud, NVIDIA software and future AI supercomputing.

OpenAI's board announced that Sam Altman would depart as CEO and Mira Murati would serve as interim CEO.

Google agrees to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic, deepening a strategic AI partnership that also includes Google Cloud infrastructure.

Claude became available to all Amazon Bedrock customers through the Anthropic-AWS partnership.

Amazon agreed to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, with AWS becoming Anthropic's primary cloud provider and Trainium and Inferentia used for model development.

Amazon agreed to invest up to $4 billion and make AWS Anthropic's primary cloud provider for mission-critical workloads.

Anthropic and Boston Consulting Group partnered to help enterprise clients deploy Claude responsibly.

OpenAI named Scale a preferred partner for enterprise fine-tuning of GPT-3.5, combining Scale’s data engine with OpenAI models.

Hugging Face launched managed training and deployment offerings in AWS Marketplace, simplifying enterprise procurement and use on AWS.

NVIDIA and Hugging Face announced a partnership to connect Hub developers with NVIDIA DGX Cloud for training and tuning generative AI models.

Microsoft, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI establish the Frontier Model Forum to advance frontier-AI safety research, standards and responsible development.

Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI founded the Frontier Model Forum to advance frontier AI safety research and standards.

McKinsey and Cohere announced work to help enterprises deploy secure generative-AI solutions.

Meta selected Microsoft as a preferred partner for distributing Llama 2 through Azure and Windows.

Oracle selected Cohere models and OCI infrastructure to deliver native generative-AI services across Oracle applications.

Anthropic and Zoom announced a partnership to use Claude in Zoom products, alongside an investment from Zoom Ventures.

Scale deployed Donovan for the U.S. Army XVIII Airborne Corps, describing it as the first large-language-model platform deployed on a classified network for the Corps.

Scale partnered with Anthropic to help enterprises customize and deploy generative-AI applications powered by Claude.

Anthropic partnered with Scale AI to help enterprises deploy and customize generative AI applications powered by Claude.

AWS and Hugging Face announced a strategic collaboration to make generative AI more accessible and optimize Transformers training and deployment on AWS infrastructure.

Google Cloud and Anthropic announce a strategic partnership covering cloud infrastructure, AI accelerators and responsible development of large AI systems.

Anthropic selected Google Cloud as a cloud partner for training and deploying its AI systems, alongside a strategic investment relationship.

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.

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.