Releases

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.