Releases

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 Foundry

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.

Gemini

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.

Vertex AI

Claude

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 Hub

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.

Llama 2

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 Donovan

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.

Vertex AI

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

Azure OpenAI Service

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 Data + AI Platform

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.

Red Hat AI

Databricks Data + AI Platform

ONNX Runtime

Apache MXNet on AWS

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