Top AI news of the week #28: Advsr AI Spotlight

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 

• HSBC and Mistral AI, an AI platform that provides large language models and AI services tailored to diverse enterprise applications, partnered to enhance and accelerate the use of generative AI across the bank
• SAP and Cohere partnered, with Cohere North being integrated into SAP Business Technology Platform allowing customers with data residency constraints across industries to build AI into their core business processes
• The University of Kentucky partnered with Microsoft to advance the responsible use of artificial intelligence and strengthen learning, innovation and care across the Commonwealth
• NVIDIA and Synopsys expanded their partnership to integrate the strengths of NVIDIA’s AI and accelerated computing with Synopsys’ engineering solutions to deliver capabilities enabling R&D teams to design, simulate and verify intelligent products with greater precision, speed and at lower cost
• Ride-hailing platform Bolt partnered with Chinese self-driving company Pony.ai to bring autonomous vehicles to Europe
• ABB expanded its partnership with Applied Digital, a builder and operator of high-performance data centers, to supply power infrastructure for the company’s second AI factory campus in North Dakota
• Rochester Institute of Technology partnered with Gallaudet University to launch a research traineeship program in Universal AI
• National 4-H Council and Microsoft extended their partnership to expand AI education for rural youth and educators
• Dassault Aviation and Thales, through cortAIx, its artificial intelligence accelerator, partnered to develop controlled and supervised AI for defence aeronautics
• Real Madrid and Adobe expanded their partnership, with the AI capabilities (generative and agentic) of the Adobe Experience Platform and Adobe GenStudio, including GenStudio for Performance Marketing and Firefly Services, enabling Real Madrid to scale content production and deliver closer, more personalised experiences to each fan
• Dassault Systèmes and Mistral AI expanded their partnership to bring integrated, sovereign artificial intelligence services to regulated industries and the public sector in Europe
• Vodacom Group, a pan-African telecommunications and technology company, partnered with Google Cloud to accelerate its digital transformation using Google Cloud’s advanced data analytics and artificial intelligence product portfolio
• Samsung Electronics and SK Telecom partnered to develop core 6G technologies, with a primary focus on artificial intelligence-based radio access network technology

Strategic and AI Startup Collaborations

• Deepgram, a real-time Voice AI platform, partnered with Amazon SageMaker AI to deliver streaming, real-time speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and the Voice Agent API as Amazon SageMaker AI real-time endpoints
• RapidAI, a provider of deep clinical AI and global leader in enterprise imaging, partnered with Amazon Web Services to bring together AWS’s AI infrastructure and machine learning pipelines with RapidAI’s deep clinical expertise and multimodal healthcare data
• HiddenLayer, an AI security platform for agentic, generative, and predictive AI applications, partnered with Amazon Web Services Generative AI offerings 
• Fortanix, a provider of data security for an AI world, joined the HPE Unleash AI partner program so customers using HPE’s portfolio of integrated AI solutions can also leverage NVIDIA Confidential Computing and Fortanix Armet AI, a turnkey platform for running secure and sovereign agentic AI in AI factories and highly regulated environments
• Fangzhou, a provider of AI-driven Internet healthcare solutions, and Tencent Healthcare, the company’s division that leverages AI, cloud computing, and big data to develop integrated digital healthcare solutions, partnered to launch a “AI+Chronic Disease Management” solution
• Warner Music Group partnered with Suno, a music-technology company that provides an AI-powered platform for generating original songs from simple text prompts, combining Suno’s AI capabilities with WMG’s artist development leadership and expertise at the intersection of music and technology
• Josh.ai, an AI platform that provides smart home automation space services, partnered with JVC, integrating JVC’s D-ILA projector models into the Josh.ai ecosystem to provide custom installers, interior designers, and homeowners with control to transform cinematic experiences
• Medical imaging AI company Avicenna.AI partnered with Ferrum, an AI Governance Suite supporting more than 50 industry-leading algorithms, with Ferrum commercializing Avicenna.AI’s full portfolio of imaging AI solutions across the United States
• Fanbase, a social media platform that allows users to monetize their content, partnered with pocstock, a content and data company, to allow AI to be trained on content posted on Fanbase while compensating users
• Fovia AI, a subsidiary of Fovia, a provider of advanced visualization and zero‑footprint, cloud‑based medical imaging, and RADPAIR, a provider of a cloud‑native, generative AI platform purpose-built for radiology reporting, partnered to enable Agentic AI workflows in the radiologists’ reading environment
• Google and venture capital firm Accel partnered to fund at least 10 early-stage Indian AI startups, with Google’s AI Futures Fund and Accel co-investing up to $2 million in each company
• Intellistake, a developer of decentralized AI and blockchain infrastructure, partnered with Orbit AI, an aerospace company developing the Orbital Cloud — a new form of space-based infrastructure where communication, computation, and verification converge beyond Earth
• SoundHound AI, a developer of voice and conversational AI, partnered with Parkopedia, a connected car services provider, to introduce an in-vehicle voice AI parking agent as part of SoundHound’s in-car voice commerce platform
• PowerBank partnered with Intellistake, with PowerBank is participating as a closed beta partner on the development of IntelliScope, Intellistake’s enterprise Artificial Intelligence suite
• Paymob, a payment technology provider in the Middle East and North Africa, and Robusta Technology Group, a provider of digital product development, artificial intelligence solutions, and digital transformation, partnered to establish a joint framework offering integrated solutions that combine digital payments, artificial intelligence, and advanced user experiences
• HCLTech, a global IT company offering digital, engineering, and cloud solutions partnering with businesses for transformation, partnered with Amazon Web Services to accelerate innovation in the financial services industry through autonomous, AI-powered solutions

AI Startup Acquisitions

• Project Prometheus, a company working on AI systems that can support the manufacturing of computers, cars, and even spacecraft, acquired agentic AI startup General Agents
• Global infrastructure engineering company Aecom acquired Consigli, an AI agent for space analysis, unit optimisation, automated MEP loadings, level 3 modelling, report generation, plant room optimisation, tender documents de-risking, and O&M docs
• GlobalFoundries, a semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company, acquired Advanced Micro Foundry, a silicon photonics foundry, and InfiniLink, a startup specializing in advanced optical data connectivity chips, to expand its AI datacenters 
• SAI360, which delivers software that helps organizations manage ethics, compliance, and risk in one connected platform, acquired Plural Policy, an AI-driven regulatory intelligence company, purpose-built to analyze legislative and regulatory text at scale
• Wayve, a provider of Embodied AI for autonomous driving, acquired Quality Match, a startup known for its expertise in data quality assurance for computer vision datasets and artificial intelligence
• IT services provider Devsinc acquired Datics AI, an artificial intelligence-focused technology company
• Gloo, a technology platform serving the faith and flourishing ecosystem, acquired XRI Global, an AI company pioneering voice AI and multilingual technologies designed to engage people across thousands of languages
• Xoriant, a global engineering and technology services company owned by ChrysCapital, acquired TestDevLab, a QA and software testing service provider
• FluidAI Medical, a medical technology company that develops novel hardware, software, and AI solutions, acquired Emmetros Limited, a company in the patient engagement space
• OSR Enterprises AG, a Tier1 supplier to the automotive industry, acquired MAISENSE, a hyperscale plasmonic SoC company, to integrate chip-level compute technology into OSR’s EVOLVER, the company’s AI brain and compute platform 
• Vyapar, a provider of business management platforms, acquired Suvit, an AI-enabled automation accounting software
• E-Home, an integrated home services provider in China, acquired Fuzhou Yunding, an IoT information platform company that specialises in AI access control systems and smart community services
• Rezolve Ai, a provider of conversational and agentic commerce, acquired Crownpeak, a digital experience platform for brands4
• Akamai Technologies, a cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online, acquired Fermyon, a serverless WebAssembly company, to simplify the deployment of AI and other functions at the edge

AI Outtakes

• Food bloggers are concerned that AI-generated “recipe slop” is distorting the way people find cooking advice online, causing consumers to waste time and money on unappetizing or impossible dishes. The issue is not just bad for their business, but also potentially ruinous for holiday dinner tables, as it recommends recipes that turn out wrong due to AI-generated instructions. For example, one AI summary said to bake a 6-inch Christmas cake for 3 to 4 hours at 320°F, which one of the bloggers said would turn it into “charcoal.” 

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