Advsr AI Spotlight
Highlighting notable AI moves at the intersection of strategic operating companies and emerging startups. Big ideas in the works.
Strategic Deployments of AI
- Scale AI and the DoD’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office partnered to provide warfighters and mission operators with AI tools to maintain a decisive advantage
- Google and PayPal partnered to focus on advancing several commerce solutions, with PayPal using Google’s AI to enhance services and security, and Google more deeply integrating PayPal’s payment capabilities
- Syracuse University partnered with Anthropic to provide every student, faculty and staff member with access to Claude for Education, Anthropic’s artificial intelligence designed specifically for academic environments
- Figure, an AI robotics company that develops autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots, partnered with Brookfield, an alternative asset manager, to help Figure develop its real-world humanoid pretraining dataset and build AI infrastructure for scaling Helix, Figure’s vision-language-action model, and facilitate deployment of humanoid robots in new commercial settings
- NVIDIA and Intel partnered to jointly develop multiple generations of custom data center and PC products that accelerate applications and workloads across hyperscale, enterprise and consumer markets
- NVIDIA partnered with CoreWeave, Microsoft and Nscale to build the United Kingdom’s next generation of AI infrastructure
- Geoteric, a provider of AI-driven seismic interpretation software, PETRONAS Carigali, partnered on AI adoption for PETRONAS Carigali that will identify new hydrocarbon prospects in less time, increase drilling success and expedite exploration activities overall
- Rice University partnered with Google for Education to adopt Google’s generative AI solution, Gemini for Education, to provide students, faculty and staff with AI tools
- Subsplash, creators of Pulpit AI, an AI-powered tool designed to assist pastors in preparing and delivering impactful sermons, partnered with Southeastern University Barnett College of Ministry & Theology
- LTIMindtree, a consulting and digital solutions company, partnered with Shopify to launch, manage, and grow their online stores, leveraging the Shopify platform to set up an AI enabled Center of Excellence for Digital Commerce
- EssilorLuxottica, an ophthalmic company that specializes in the design, manufacture, and marketing of eyewear products, extended its partnership with Meta Platforms to develop multi-generational smart eyewear products
- Rimini Street, a provider of end-to-end enterprise software support, management and innovation solutions, partnered with Korean Broadcasting System to provide support for its SAP ECC 6.0, a strategic move that has helped to fund and accelerate its AI vision
- Workday partnered with Microsoft to help organizations securely manage their people and AI agents across their platforms allowing customers that build AI agents using Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio to register and manage them within the Workday Agent System of Record
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Inria, France’s National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, partnered to launch a joint research project titled “Formal Reasoning applied to AI for Methodological Engineering” with the aim of realizing trustworthy AI systems
Strategic and AI Startup Collaborations
- Sutter Health partnered with Hyro,a provider of AI agents for healthcare, incorporating Hyro’s suite of AI skills, including calls and messages supporting appointment management, scheduling, prescription management, and billing inquiries
- Eyenuk, a provider of AI-powered eye screening, partnered with the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority with aims to scale its use across Norway’s National Health System in the coming years
- Tron Future Tech, developer of radar and drone defense technologies, and AiNOS AI, A domain-adaptive AI engine, partnered to advance AI-driven defense, coastal surveillance, and smart city solutions
- VVater, a water treatment company, partnered with Introl, a provider of data center infrastructure deployment, to deliver a new class of sustainable, AI-ready data centers
- Mindbreeze, a provider of AI-based knowledge management solutions, partnered with EBHAR, a consulting firm in data and analytics, to optimize the progress of AI innovation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Stamus, a provider of network-based threat detection and response systems, and SentinelOne, an AI-native security company, partnered to focus on delivering initiatives that will better address network security pain points through AI-powered detection and response
- FairPlay, an AI enablement company for the financial services industry, partnered with Arva AI, a provider of financial crime prevention technology, to validate and assure the safety of Arva’s agentic AI systems for Anti-Money Laundering and Know Your Business use cases
- Supio, an AI platform for personal injury and mass tort law firms, partnered with Thomson Reuters to customers will have the ability to leverage Supio’s AI‑powered CaseAware AI platform into its legal technology portfolio
- Pony AI, a provider of autonomous driving technology, entered into the Singaporean market through a partnership with ComfortDelGro, a local transportation service provider, to deploy autonomous vehicles and facilitate daily commuting for residents
- Optos, a provider of ultra-widefield retinal imaging, and Toku, a developer of AI-powered health insights, partnered to make Toku’s BioAge available to users of Optos Daytona, Monaco, MonacoPro, and California devices in the United States
- Razor Labs, a provider of AI-powered predictive maintenance for heavy industries, partnered with Process Automation, a provider of industrial instrumentation and automation systems
AI Startup Acquisitions
- Check Point Software Technologies, a provider of cyber security solutions, acquired Lakera, an AI-native security platform for Agentic AI applications
- Workday acquired Sana, an AI company building the next generation of enterprise knowledge tools
- CrowdStrike acquired Pangea, an AI security company
- D-ID, a platform for the generation of digital humans, acquired AI video company simpleshow
- Atlassian acquired DX, which helps organizations measure developer productivity, accelerate velocity with data, and navigate the shift to AI-augmented engineering
- Innovaccer, a healthcare AI company, acquired Story Health, an AI-powered, tech-enabled platform focused on transforming specialty care from episodic to continuous, digital models
- GHO Capital Partners, a specialist investor in global healthcare, acquired Scientist.com, an AI-powered R&D orchestration platform
- MentalHealth.com, a health technology company guiding people towards self-understanding and connection, acquired Therapy.ai, a company that uses artificial intelligence in mental health care
- Paradigm, a revenue cycle management and claims processing company for home care businesses, acquired Careswitch, an AI-powered home care operating system
- West Monroe, a global business and technology consulting firm, acquired 2050 Partners, a consulting firm that helps utilities and clients across the energy sector manage rising demand through customer-focused energy efficiency programs and navigate clean energy regulations, to strengthen position on ai-driven energy demand and clean energy transition
- Arkade AI, a provider of advanced voice intelligence solutions, acquired Loop Marketers, a lead generation firm specializing in ethical leads for small to medium-sized businesses, primarily in the financial sector
- Brandlive, a video platform for enterprise town halls, webinars, virtual events and internal storytelling, acquired Hubilo, a company focused on AI innovation and streaming infrastructure
AI Outtakes
- The keynote session of Meta’s Connect conference went sideways during live demonstrations of the company’s glasses tech. Mark Zuckerberg cut to influencer Jack Mancuso, who stood in a kitchen on the company’s campus and directed him to make a steak sauce with the help of the AI in the chef’s Ray-Ban Meta glasses. The AI could see the ingredients in front of Mancuso and speak to the chef through speakers in the glasses’ arms but as Mancuso asked for help, the AI didn’t seem to understand what he was saying or know quite how to respond. It told him he’d already combined ingredients — he hadn’t — even as he repeated his “What do I do first?” question. “It’s all good,” Zuckerberg said. “The irony of the whole thing is that you spend years making technology and then the Wi-Fi of the day kind of catches you.”
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