Palantir Technologies has entered into a partnership with Microsoft to provide secure cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and analytical capabilities to support the missions of defense and intelligence agencies of the U.S. government. This news resulted in an 11% increase in Palantir's stock price, and Microsoft's stock also saw an uptick. The collaboration allows the U.S. government to leverage Azure OpenAI services to access large language models, Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI, and Palantir's AI platform.

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating Amazon's $4 billion investment in the AI startup Anthropic, concerned that the partnership may affect market competition in the UK. The investigation is based on information gathered by the CMA, which believes the collaboration could have adverse effects. Amazon has expressed dissatisfaction, stating that the partnership meets market standards. The CMA has collected public opinions and plans to assess the impact of the partnership on the market in the coming weeks, with a final decision to be announced on October 4. The investigation involves Anthropic's use of Amazon Web Services.

Anthropic has recently announced a partnership with venture capital firm Menlo Ventures to establish the Anthology Fund, a fund with a total of $100 million aimed at supporting the next generation of AI startups. According to the plan, each eligible startup can receive at least $100,000 in investment, along with additional support and resources provided by Anthropic and Menlo Ventures.In a statement, Anthropic's president, Daniela Amodei, pointed out: "Through our collaboration with Menlo Ventur

According to reports from CNBC, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is conducting an informal investigation into Amazon's recent partnership with AI startup Adept. This news was confirmed on July 16. The FTC aims to gather more details about the agreement announced last month, including how Amazon hired key executives from Adept and obtained authorization to use their technology.In this collaboration, Amazon not only hired David Luan, the co-founder and CEO of Adept, but also brought in other sig

At the recent WWDC conference, Apple announced an agreement with OpenAI, allowing ChatGPT to perform certain tasks on devices running iOS 18 (excluding the EU). This move marks another significant step for Apple in the field of artificial intelligence. According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple's executives also mentioned Google Gemini, but the list of potential partners is not limited to this.

McDonald's has announced the termination of its AI drive-thru ordering partnership with IBM, and plans to remove the technology being tested in over 100 restaurants by July 26, 2024. Since partnering with IBM in 2021, McDonald's has been testing the system in these restaurants.

Mistral has recently launched Mistral Large, which ranks just behind GPT-4 in benchmark tests, surpassing all other models. The Mistral Large model has native-level fluency, covering multiple languages, and possesses a deep understanding of grammar and cultural contexts. Mistral Large also features precise instruction-following capabilities, supporting function calls and constrained output modes. Mistral Large is supported on La Plateforme, Azure.

Microsoft has reached a collaboration agreement with the French AI startup Mistral, aiming to help Mistral bring its AI models to market. This partnership makes Mistral the second company to offer commercial language models on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform. Mistral was valued at 2 billion euros following a funding round that raised approximately 400 million euros.

Lenovo is working closely with Nvidia to provide AI professional services that help customers quickly deploy hybrid AI solutions. The collaboration aims to strengthen capabilities in the AI field and offer better solutions to customers.

Cisco and NVIDIA collaborate to provide AI hardware and software solutions, offering enterprise customers an alternative in data centers. NVIDIA's AI chips and platforms will be made available through Cisco, deepening the longstanding partnership between the two companies. Enterprise customers can access support through Cisco's partner ecosystem to adopt AI and automation technologies. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated that the collaboration with Cisco makes it easier for enterprises to access AI infrastructure and benefit from AI technology.

Essential AI and Google Cloud announce a multi-year partnership to streamline the development of full-stack generative AI products. Essential AI will utilize Google Cloud's TPU v5p for model training to provide customized large language models. In this collaboration, Essential AI will leverage Google Cloud's global infrastructure and advanced analytics tools, including BigQuery, Looker, and Google Analytics.

Google and Hugging Face recently announced a strategic partnership aimed at advancing open AI and machine learning. This collaboration will integrate Hugging Face's platform with Google Cloud's infrastructure, including Vertex AI, to make generative AI more accessible for developers. The partnership supports developers in quickly and cost-effectively training, fine-tuning, and serving open models on Google Cloud, utilizing AI to optimize infrastructure such as TPUs and GPUs.

🇺🇸 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to visit Seoul to meet with SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won to seek semiconductor partnerships and reduce reliance on the U.S. AI chip leader Nvidia. 🤝 Altman is eager to collaborate with domestic chip manufacturers to develop AI accelerators and will discuss AI chip partnerships with stakeholders in the South Korean semiconductor industry during his visit. 💼 Industry sources suggest that, in addition to the meeting with SK Group, OpenAI may also engage with Samsung.

Microsoft CEO Nadella emphasized the collaboration with OpenAI at the Davos Forum, believing it aids competition in the artificial intelligence sector. Nadella acknowledged that regulators may have competitive concerns regarding the partnership, but he firmly believes collaboration is a necessary avenue for fostering competition. Microsoft's $13 billion investment in OpenAI has sparked antitrust investigations in the UK and EU, related to agreements between digital market participants and AI developers. Nadella stressed that collaboration is a way to compete with integrated players in the AI field and regarded the regulators' concerns as reasonable.

Vodafone and Microsoft have entered into a 10-year strategic partnership aimed at providing digital platforms for over 300 million enterprises, public sector organizations, and consumers. The collaboration focuses on generative artificial intelligence, IoT expansion, digital and financial services, and optimizing global data center cloud strategies. Vodafone will invest $1.5 billion to co-develop cloud and customer-centric AI services with Microsoft. The partnership also includes expanding M-Pesa to drive digital acceleration in Africa, improving the lives of 100 million consumers and 1 million small and medium-sized enterprises.

Microsoft and Walmart have teamed up to implement generative AI technology in a new e-commerce search feature. Walmart leverages Microsoft's Azure OpenAI large language model alongside its e-commerce data, similar to ChatGPT's search capabilities. The generative AI search simplifies the product selection process for users on e-commerce platforms, enhancing the shopping experience. The feature has already been launched in Walmart's iOS mobile application and is expected to create an industry value ranging from $40 billion to $660 billion. Walmart focuses on improving shopping efficiency and has previously introduced a one-click fitting feature on social e-commerce platforms.

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Approximately 79% of ChatGPT's enterprise customers come from the Microsoft Azure OpenAI partnership. Within less than four months of its launch, ChatGPT Enterprise has gained between 22,000 and 25,000 customers globally. Analysts believe that most customers are still exploring the technology's proof-of-concept phase, and the true situation will become clear after a year and upon the renewal of annual subscriptions.

In the era of large models, vector databases have become an indispensable partner. Through vector databases, large models gain long-term memory capabilities, addressing issues of hallucination and data update delays. Vector databases not only enhance data security but also provide large models with massive, real-time data support. The rapid development of Tencent Cloud's vector database showcases the momentum of large models and data technology together driving the application of artificial intelligence.

AI companies may face the risk of training data exhaustion in the near future, with high-quality text training data potentially running out by 2026. The use of synthetic data may lead to inherent distortion effects in models, as research indicates the risks. A solution may lie in establishing data partnerships to alleviate supply issues through data exchange.