Releases

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.