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
- Eli Lilly and Company launched Lilly TuneLab, an artificial intelligence and machine learning platform that provides biotech companies access to drug discovery models trained on years of Lilly’s research data
- Medtronic and the Manchester University UK National Health Service Foundation Trust partnered to co-develop healthcare technologies, including robotic surgery and AI-related initiatives. The entities said their signing of what is claimed to be a UK-first Research, Development and Innovation agreement will streamline collaboration on ‘mutually beneficial’ research and innovation projects across cardiovascular, neuroscience, medical surgery, and diabetes
- Oracle Health launched the Oracle AI Center of Excellence for Healthcare to help organizations take advantage of the rapid advances in AI. The Oracle AI Center of Excellence for Healthcare offers a hub of resources and expertise that will help health systems and hospitals deploy and optimize AI across their organizations
- Digital Realty, a provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, launched its data center innovation lab, The Digital Realty Innovation Lab, offering partners and customers a real-world data center testing environment where they can bring their own workloads or leverage pre-configured infrastructure to validate AI and hybrid cloud-deployments before scaling
- WellSky, a health and community care technology and services company, expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to deliver AI-powered solutions for post-acute, acute, and community care
- Nokia partnered with Supermicro, a provider of Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions, to help cloud providers, hyperscalers, enterprises and CSPs deploy high-performance, AI-optimized data center networking solutions
- Semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASML and Mistral AI, a platform that provides large language models and AI services tailored to diverse enterprise applications, partnered to explore the use of AI models across ASML’s product portfolio as well as research, development and operations
- Ralph Lauren partnered with Microsoft to launch Ask Ralph, a new AI-powered conversational shopping experience that provides styling inspiration by serving up multiple, shoppable visual laydowns of complete outfits, personalized to a user’s prompts, from across available inventory within the Men’s and Women’s Polo Ralph Lauren brand
- Military shipbuilder HII partnered with Shield AI, a deep-tech company building autonomy software products and aircraft, to advance modular, cross-domain mission autonomy
- Google Gemini partnered with California Community Colleges to bring AI tools and training to its 2.1 million students and faculty, providing no-cost access to resources like Gemini for Education, NotebookLM and Google Career Certificates across all 116 colleges
- The Moroccan government partnered with Mistral AI to develop Moroccan expertise in AI through training, applied research, and knowledge exchange.
- Cipher, a provider of managed security services and managed threat detection and response, and Securonix, a provider of AI-driven Security Information and Event Management, partnered to deliver advanced managed security services tailored for channel partners
- Royal Philips and Masimo renewed their partnership to integrate Masimo’s advanced monitoring technologies , including SET pulse oximetry, Radius PPG, and a range of sensor technology, into Philips’ patient monitoring platforms
- Trintech, a provider of AI Financial Close solutions for the Office of Finance, joined the Workday Partner Program, launching Workday External Matching Powered by Trintech
- iQIYI, a Chinese online entertainment platform, partnered with Academy Award-winning cinematographer and director Peter Pau to launch the “Peter Pau × iQIYI AI Theater” Storytelling Lab to cultivate a new generation of professional creators skilled in AI-powered filmmaking
- SentinelOne, an AI-native cybersecurity platform, and Schwarz Digits, an IT and digital division of the Schwarz Group, partnered to deliver a sovereign, AI-powered cybersecurity platform for European customers
- Ouster, a provider of high-performance lidar sensors and intelligent software solutions that bring Physical AI to life across industries, partnered with Constellis, a provider of advanced security and mission support services
Strategic and AI Startup Collaborations
- WellLink and Jorie AI partnered on AI aimed at helping hospitals strengthen revenue, reduce costs, and thrive in today’s challenging environment. As part of the partnership with WellLink, Jorie AI opened a new location inside WellLink’s Playhouse Square offices
- Lincoln Learning Solutions and Creatium launched an AI learning assistant trained on accredited, vetted K-12 digital content. Building upon a yearlong partnership, Lincoln AI powered by Creatium marries AI-assisted learning tools to the Lincoln Empowered curriculum
- University Hospitals, an academic health system, partnered with Hippocratic AI, a provider of generative AI healthcare agents, to deploy Hippocratic AI’s conversational agents to enhance clinical workflows, expand patient engagement, and improve outcomes throughout the UH system
- Craft Silicon, a software developer that creates programs for analyzing financial data, and MindHYVE.ai, a provider of agentic artificial intelligence, partnered to introduce ArthurAI, a next-generation autonomous learning platform, into African markets
- Robo.ai, a company dedicated to building a globally leading AI robotics network platform, and Ewatt Aerospace Technology, focuses on the R&D and manufacturing of manned electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, partnered to establish RoVTOL, a joint venture in the UAE
- Cloudastructure, a provider of AI Surveillance and Remote Guarding, partnered with an unnamed provider of technology and equipment financing to make Cloudastructure’s platform more widely available to property management companies
- Level 5 Partners, an executive search and leadership advisory firm, partnered with TalentGenius, an AI-driven talent solution, to integrate advanced AI capabilities into Level 5’s executive search and advisory process
- National Grid and Emerald AI, a provider of AI-driven compute orchestration, partnered to demonstrate how AI data centers can work with the transmission network to adjust their energy use in real time
- Solomon AI Limited, a company specializing in the development and deployment of advanced artificial intelligence solutions, and VR Solutions, a provider in Azerbaijan, partnered to accelerate the adoption of Agentic AI solutions across Central Asia
- Sylvester.ai, a provider of AI-driven feline health technology, partnered with Nova Vet Family, a veterinary platform, to bring AI-powered feline pain detection technology to veterinary clinics across the Middle East, parts of North Africa as well as international markets
- Metropia, a provider of Mobility-as-a-Service, and Zybron AI, a provider of industrial agentic AI, partnered to integrate agentic AI into mobility platforms for cities and enterprise networks
- Dentsu, a Japanese public relations and advertising firm, partnered with Index Exchange, a supply-side platform, and Chalice AI, a provider of advertising technology for Platform Independent AI, to form a core part of dentsu’s NextGen initiative, a company-wide transformation designed to evolve its core capabilities through data, modularity, and AI
- Rodata, formerly SPAATECH, a provider of data and artificial intelligence solutions, partnered with MetricsNumero, an analytics solutions company
- Good At Marketing, a company specializing in SEO services, paid advertising, and digital marketing solutions, partnered with SharedChat.ai, a collaborative shared chat platform that enables multiple users to work together in the same AI conversation thread
- Sumsub, a provider of verification and fraud prevention, partnered with Constructor University to collaborate on Sumsub’s AI Academic Program
- SimCorp, a provider of financial technology and a subsidiary of Deutsche Börse Group, partnered with Axyon AI, a fintech specializing in advanced predictive AI-driven solutions for asset managers, hedge funds and institutional investors
- Helsing, a defense AI startup, and Systematic, a defense software firm partnered to provide Europe with sovereign AI-powered swarm capabilities integrated with existing C2 systems and processes
AI Startup Acquisitions
- Cybersecurity company F5 acquired enterprise AI security company CalypsoAI
- OpenVenture, a provider of technology private equity and venture investments across deep tech and AI, acquired InVerse, a startup focusing on AI systems that intelligently manage asset pipelines and real-time rendering performance optimized for mobile and hardware-limited environments
- SoundHound AI, a provider of voice and conversational AI, acquired Interactions, a pioneer in AI for customer service and workflow orchestration
- iCIMS, a talent acquisition software provider, acquired Apli, an AI-powered recruitment automation platform
- Radancy, a talent acquisition platform powered by Agentic AI, acquired AI-Powered screening platform myInterview
- Applied Systems, a provider of cloud-based software that powers the business of insurance, acquired Cytora, an AI-powered digital risk processing platform for the insurance industry
- Magnite, a sell-side advertising company, acquired streamr.ai, a platform specializing in AI tools that make connected television advertising accessible to small and medium-sized businesses
- Minute Media, a technology and sports content company, acquired VideoVerse, an AI-driven SaaS technology platform
- Apple acquired the founding team of WhyLabs, which built software to help companies monitor their AI applications for security and performance
- Mynd.ai, a provider of interactive software apps and learning technologies for K-12 educators, colleges, and universities, acquired voice control technology platform Merlyn Mind
- MySize, an AI-driven measurement and fashion technology solutions provider, acquired ShoeSize.Me, an SaaS company specializing in AI-powered footwear sizing and fit solutions
- Capacity, an AI-powered support automation platform for Contact Centers, acquired KLaunch, a conversational AI company that helps government, healthcare, nonprofit and sports and entertainment companies better connect with their customers
- Rembrand, a provider of AI for virtual product placement, merged with Spaceback, a creative automation platform that transforms social media posts into high-performing programmatic ads across CTV, digital video, and display
- GE HealthCare acquired icometrix, a company focused on providing AI-powered brain imaging analysis for neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease
- Mitsubishi Electric acquired Nozomi Networks, a provider of AI-powered, cloud-first cybersecurity software
- Tego Cyber, a cybersecurity company focused on AI-driven threat intelligence and managed security solutions, acquired an unnamed managed security services business
- Evertrace, a founder detection engine for VCs, acquired Whisper AI, which specializes in advanced company data and registry integrations
- KX, a provider of real-time, time-series and AI-driven analytics, merged with OneMarketData, a provider of market data management, out-of-the-box, front-office analytics and regulatory solutions
AI Outtakes
- A recent Reddit post exposed ChatGPT’s stubborn insistence that the word strawberry only has two R’s—even after being challenged with overwhelming proof to the contrary. In the conversation, the user pointed out that strawberry has three R’s when broken down: one in “straw” and two in “berry.” ChatGPT, however, repeatedly insisted that the word only had two R’s, spelling it out as “S-T-R-A-W-B-E-R-R-Y” and explaining that the two consecutive R’s at the 8th and 9th positions were all there was to count. The user countered, “The third letter is an R!” and even cleverly formatted the word to highlight all three occurrences—StRawbeRRy. But ChatGPT stuck to its guns, apologizing profusely while repeating its claim: “I understand your frustration… the standard spelling of ‘strawberry’ is indeed with two R’s.” Redditors found the incident hilarious. One commented, “My ChatGPT also apologized.” Another quipped, “Wow, it’s so confidently wrong—reminds me of my coworkers.” Others joined in, joking, “LOOOL I wish I had this confidence whenever I’m wildly incorrect”
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