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
- Dataiku, which operates as an enterprise artificial intelligence and machine-learning platform, partnered with NVIDIA to launch the Dataiku AI Factory Accelerator as a way of helping enterprises worldwide move AI from prototype to production
- NVIDIA unveiled the NVIDIA AI Factory for Government reference design, in collaboration with software and services leaders, to enable federal agencies and regulated industries to build and deploy new AI platforms and intelligent agents
- Cisco and G42, a UAE-based artificial intelligence company, expanded their partnership to advance secure AI infrastructure, with Cisco powering, connecting, and securing a large-scale AI cluster deployed by G42, featuring AMD’s advanced MI350X GPUs
- Uber partnered with NVIDIA to accelerate the next generation of robotaxi and autonomous delivery fleets using NVIDIA AI Architecture, with plans to greatly expand its global autonomous fleets
- Lockheed Martin and Google Public Sector partnered to integrate Google’s generative AI, including its Gemini models, into the Lockheed Martin AI Factory
- New Zealand’s Ministry of Health announced a plan to roll out AI scribes to 1,000 doctors and frontline staff in emergency departments nationwide following the success of earlier trials
- ADNOC and Gecko Robotics, an AI and robotics technology company that provides robotics and inspection services for industrial applications, expanded their partnership with three new agreements to explore deploying robotics and AI across ADNOC’s operations and boosting future skills training for UAE Nationals
- Adobe MAX and Google Cloud expanded their partnership, bringing together Adobe’s decades of creative expertise with Google’s advanced AI models—including Gemini, Veo, and Imagen—to usher in a new era of creative expression
- Microsoft announced that it will bring its new Microsoft Discovery platform, an advanced Agentic AI and cloud technology that promises to help scientists and organizations accelerate research and solve complex problems more efficiently, to the New Jersey Artificial Intelligence Hub, which will be one of only two ecosystems of its kind in the world where the Discovery platform will be available initially, along with TitletownTech in Wisconsin
- Florida State University partnered with Google to offer students complimentary access to the Google People Management Essentials certificate program, which helps students gain leadership and professional skills, while also learning how to use artificial intelligence at work
- NVIDIA partnered with Palantir Technologies to build an integrated technology stack for operational AI — including analytics capabilities, reference workflows, automation features and customizable, specialized AI agents — to accelerate and optimize complex enterprise and government systems
- The Kenya Private Sector Alliance partnered with Microsoft to launch the Kenya Artificial Intelligence Skilling Alliance, a national platform that will coordinate AI skills development, innovation, and policy collaboration across key sectors of the economy
- Walmart introduced new AI-powered shopping tools, including store-specific savings, interactive 3D showrooms, and AI-powered party planning
- Getty Images, a global visual content creator and marketplace, and Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine, partnered to display images from Getty Images across Perplexity’s AI‑powered search and discovery tools
Strategic and AI Startup Collaborations
- Henry Schein One, a provider of dental technology, partnered with Amazon Web Services to integrate AWS’s generative AI technologies across the Henry Schein One platform
- Echelon Digital Group, a Saudi technology holding company that delivers innovation to businesses across the Middle East announced, partnered with Elutions, an artificial intelligence software company that has developed an advanced neural network capable of analyzing complex enterprise systems
- X-Bow Systems, a non-traditional producer of advanced manufactured solid rocket motors and defense technologies, partnered with Astris AI, a Lockheed Martin company, to become the first customer to adopt defense-grade artificial intelligence capabilities within the Astris AI Factory
- Medchat•ai, a provider of AI-powered healthcare automation, and Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Company partnered, introducing AI customer care agents that deliver instant, personalized support for pricing questions, order status, and real-time delivery tracking
- Arrive AI, an autonomous delivery network anchored by patented AI-powered Arrive Points, and Hancock Health, a regional hospital and member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, partnered to explore the potential of asynchronous robotic automation for medical deliveries within hospitals
- TeraWulf, an owner and operator of vertically integrated, low-carbon digital infrastructure, partnered with Fluidstack, an AI cloud platform that builds and operates HPC clusters
- WellSky, a health and community care technology and services company, partnered with Suki, a provider of healthcare AI, to launch the WellSky Ambient Listening solution, an AI-powered ambient listening feature within its Specialty Care electronic health record solution
- Altius, an AI-powered wellbeing infrastructure company, partnered with Syd Life AI, a provider of preventive health technologies, to launch its personalized LLM in the United States
- Universal Music Group partnered with Udio, an AI-powered music creation platform, to settle copyright infringement litigation and to collaborate on a new commercial music creation, consumption and streaming experience
- Cloud9, a global esports organization, partnered with JetBrains, the creator of intelligent software development tools, for JetBrains to become its Official AI-powered coding partner
- Informa PLC partnered with Conference AI, which transforms event recordings into searchable insights, AI summaries, transcripts, and shareable content for conferences, to make its AI-powered platform available across its global portfolio of events
- Hanwha, a trading company that engages in the sale of steel, non-ferrous metals, food products, petroleum and chemicals, and other items, partnered with Havoc AI, an artificial intelligence company that offers maritime autonomy solutions to the defense and commercial markets, to accelerate its entry into the U.S. market
AI Startup Acquisitions
- CoreWeave acquired Marimo, the creator of the open-source marimo notebook, an AI-native, reactive development environment for Python, purpose-built for AI and data workloads
- Nuvocargo, an AI-native logistics platform, acquired Mentum, a company that builds AI agents that automate procurement and supply chain workflows
- Figma, a collaborative interface design tool, acquired Weavy, a platform that brings generative AI and professional editing tools into the open canvas
- Entero Therapeutics, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of targeted, orally delivered therapies for gastrointestinal diseases, acquired Grid AI, an AI‑driven, grid‑edge software and device orchestration platform
- Zscaler, a provider of cloud security, acquired AI security company SPLX
- Vertiv Holdings, a provider of critical digital infrastructure, acquired Purge Rite Intermediate, a provider of mechanical flushing, purging and filtration services for data centers and other mission-critical facilities, to strengthen its thermal chain services for liquid cooling systems, including those that support AI data centers
- Sitero, a technology-enabled Clinical Research Organization, acquired the AI assets and business of studyOS, a novel eClinical AI technology provider
- Incredibuild, a provider of build acceleration and intelligence, acquired Kypso, a startup building AI agents for engineering teams
- Datavault AI, a provider of patented data tokenization and monetization technologies, acquired API Media, a provider of audio and visual technologies and IT services for large sporting events and enterprise clients
- InterDigital, a mobile, video, and AI technology research and development company, acquired Deep Render, an AI startup with a team of AI experts focusing on video codecs
- HubSpot acquired XFunnel, a platform that helps businesses monitor, experiment with, and strengthen their presence across LLMs through AEO
- PatientNow, a solution to manage all aspects of the modern elective medical practice, acquired Recua, an AI-powered platform which acts as a full-time sales team, receptionist, and booking coordinator
- Kaixin Holdings, an auto retail platform for luxury used cars and imported new cars, acquired Honglu Technology, a Chinese AI animation company
- Winmill Software, a provider of cybersecurity, cloud development, and managed IT services, acquired Divelement, a digital engineering firm known for its expertise in custom cloud application development, DevOps, and AI solutions.
AI Outtakes
- Confronted with allegations that they had cheated in an introductory data science course and fudged their attendance, dozens of undergraduates at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign recently sent two professors a mea culpa via email. But they hadn’t written the emails, artificial intelligence had. The students got their comeuppance in a large lecture hall, when professors Karle Flanagan and Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider read aloud their identical, less-than-genuine apologies from a projector screen. “They said, ‘Dear Professor Flanagan, I want to sincerely apologize,’” Professor Flanagan said. “And I was like, Thank you. They’re owning up to it. They’re apologizing. And then I got another email, the second email, and then the third. And then everybody sort of sincerely apologizing, and suddenly it became a little less sincere.”
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