Partnership News
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Strategic partnerships, collaborations, and alliances between AI companies. Track ecosystem developments and business relationships.
Ambarella partners with Capgemini to accelerate enterprise edge and physical AI adoption.
Ambarella, the Nasdaq-listed edge AI semiconductor company (AMBA), announced an engagement with Capgemini under which the global IT services firm will provide engineering, systems integration, and ind...
Naver Cloud-led consortium wins South Korea's national cybersecurity AI foundation model contract.
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT selected a Naver Cloud-led, 32-member consortium over a rival led by SK Telecom to build the country's "security-specialized AI foundation model," a state-fun...
NVIDIA to Invest $3.5 Billion in MediaTek in Expanded AI Chip Partnership
NVIDIA announced it will invest $3.5 billion by subscribing to convertible bonds issued by MediaTek (联发科), deepening cooperation across AI infrastructure, on-device AI computing, and automotive silico...
Nota AI joins SK Telecom consortium to optimize Korea's national public-service AI models
Nota AI, a Seoul-based company specializing in AI model lightweighting and optimization, has joined a consortium led by SK Telecom for Korea's 'AI for All' project, an initiative from the Ministry of...
NVIDIA Invests $3.5 Billion in MediaTek Convertible Bonds, Deepens NVLink Fusion Chip Alliance
NVIDIA and Taiwan's MediaTek announced on August 31 an expanded AI computing partnership, with NVIDIA investing $3.5 billion (roughly ¥560 billion) in convertible bonds issued by MediaTek; specific te...
Anthropic Signs Reported $35B Lambda Cloud Deal for Texas AI Compute
Anthropic has reportedly signed a $35 billion cloud-computing agreement with Nvidia-backed Lambda, according to PingWest, citing AIBase. The arrangement would use a Texas data center developed by Hut...
Anthropic Nears $35 Billion Compute Deal With Nvidia-Backed Lambda
Anthropic is reportedly finalizing an agreement worth $35 billion with Lambda, the Nvidia-backed cloud GPU infrastructure provider, to secure large-scale capacity for training and serving its Claude m...
Nvidia commits $3.5 billion to MediaTek in a strategic bid to keep AI chip buildouts inside its own ecosystem.
Nvidia is investing $3.5 billion in Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek, giving MediaTek access to Nvidia's NVLink Fusion ecosystem so it can design custom AI chips for cloud providers and AI labs that plug...
NVIDIA's Cosmos Coalition Draws 22 Japanese Organizations Into Physical AI
NVIDIA said on July 16 that 22 Japanese companies and organizations had expressed intent to join its Cosmos Coalition, a collaboration around world models and physical-AI development. Participants inc...
OpenAI to end Cursor's direct model access on November 12, citing SpaceX's acquisition of Cursor's maker.
OpenAI said on August 28 it is terminating the contract that lets Cursor call OpenAI's models inside its editor, proposing November 12 as the cutoff. It invoked a change-of-control clause triggered by...
Cursor to Lose OpenAI Model Access by November 12 as Musk Feud Escalates; Anthropic Fills Gap
OpenAI notified SpaceX on August 28 that it will wind down model access for AI coding startup Cursor, with the cutoff set for November 12, 2026 — the maximum notice period allowed under their contract...
Anthropic Pivots From Reported $7B MatX Acquisition to a Chip Partnership
Reuters reported that Anthropic explored acquiring AI chip startup MatX for roughly $7 billion before shifting toward a partnership arrangement rather than an outright buyout. The reported reversal fo...
Cursor Faces OpenAI Model Supply Cutoff After SpaceX Acquisition
OpenAI says it will stop supplying its models to AI coding platform Cursor on November 12 and will not provide future releases, following SpaceX's reported $60 billion acquisition of the company. It c...
OpenAI to Cut Off Model Supply to Cursor After SpaceX's $60B Acquisition
OpenAI told SpaceX on August 28 it will end Cursor's access to OpenAI models, citing a change-of-control clause triggered by SpaceX's $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor developer Anysphere, c...
MiniMax raises Alibaba Cloud spending ceiling 220% to $1.2 billion through 2028
MiniMax has raised the three-year purchase ceiling on its cloud computing deal with Alibaba Group by 220%, to US$1.2 billion, after the Shanghai-based AI company burned through two-thirds of its 2026...
NVIDIA and AWS deepen their alliance with 2 million more GPUs, Vera CPU infrastructure, and a government AI factory.
AWS and NVIDIA announced an expansion of their 16-year partnership, committing 2 million additional NVIDIA GPUs — including Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra — across AWS's global infrastructure...
Anthropic's Reported $45B Nscale Deal Secures Vera Rubin Capacity
Anthropic has reportedly signed an approximately $45 billion compute-leasing agreement with UK AI infrastructure company Nscale. The six-year arrangement would provide capacity from Nscale's West Virg...
Zhipu releases GLM-5.3-Flash with SenseTime-backed domestic inference
Zhipu AI has released and open-sourced GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320 billion-parameter model it describes as the GLM-5 series’ first native multimodal release. The company said the model was pretrained on 30 t...
Anthropic Reportedly Commits $45B to Nscale Compute Through 2033
Anthropic has reportedly agreed to rent about $45 billion in AI compute from British infrastructure provider Nscale. TechCrunch, citing a source familiar with the arrangement, said the six-year deal w...
Naver Cloud and LG CNS are developing a cybersecurity-focused AI foundation model for South Korea.
Naver Cloud and LG CNS have formed a consortium for a Ministry of Science and ICT and National IT Industry Promotion Agency program to develop a model focused on detecting and responding to domestic c...