Microsoft and OpenAI amended their 2019 partnership on April 27. OpenAI can now serve products through any cloud provider while Microsoft remains the primary partner; the IP license becomes non-exclusive through 2032, AGI is detached from revenue share, and AWS Bedrock signals it will host OpenAI models within weeks.
Alphabet will put $10 billion into Anthropic now at a $350 billion valuation, with another $30 billion tied to performance milestones — and Google Cloud will deliver five gigawatts of TPU capacity over five years.
Cohere's first speech recognition model tops the Open ASR Leaderboard as well as our own independent benchmark of four providers.
Google's expansion of Search Live to more than 200 countries this week is easy to frame as a product update. A voice feature got wider availability. But zoom out and the move looks more significant: it is the first time any company has deployed conversational, multimodal search at truly global scale.
Elon Musk set a March 21 date for what may well be one of the most ambitious semiconductor ventures ever attempted by a company outside the established chipmaking industry
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis published a warm retrospective about AlphaGo's 10th anniversary in what may very well be an act of narrative positioning at a moment when the rest of the industry is consumed by the question of who AI serves.
In one week, Anthropic dismantled its hardest safety promise and absorbed a federal blacklisting rather than cross its ethical red lines. Both things are true. That's the story.
OpenAI announced $110 billion in new investment at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, anchored by $50 billion from Amazon, $30 billion from SoftBank, and $30 billion from NVIDIA. The Amazon commitment comes with a broad strategic partnership covering cloud infrastructure, custom silicon, and enterprise AI distribution.
Meta and AMD announced a five-year agreement to deploy up to six gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs, alongside a performance-based warrant that could let Meta acquire up to 160 million AMD shares as deployment milestones are met.