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
- Goldman Sachs launched a new custom basket that goes on long companies whose businesses are seen as difficult for AI to displace, while shorting firms whose workflows AI could increasingly automate or replicate internally
- Chile launched Latam-GPT, an open-source artificial intelligence language model trained on the cultures of Latin America, aiming to better reflect regional realities and strengthen the region’s presence in the global AI race
- LIV Golf partnered with Salesforce to launch Fan Caddie, an agentic golf companion. Named “Chip,” the AI agent customizes each fan’s journey to guide their experience and dive deeper into the dual team and League storylines, data, and context around LIV Golf’s 13 teams and 57 player-field
- The governments of Canada and Germany signed an AI joint declaration and launched a new Sovereign Technology Alliance to strengthen cooperation among trusted partners on advanced technologies
- Coinbase launched Agentic Wallets, a wallet infrastructure built specifically for agents to equip them with autonomous spending, earning, and trading capabilities
- Employ Milwaukee, a nonprofit organization that develops workforce solutions and employment opportunities for job seekers, partnered with Milky Way Tech Hub, a social impact organization focusing on STEAM education, AI workshops, and economic opportunities, and UNCOM to launch the AI Ready: After School Future Workforce Program, a new initiative designed to prepare youth for success in an increasingly digital and AI-driven economy
- CoStar Group, a provider of online real estate marketplaces, information, analytics, and 3D digital twin technology, launched Homes AI, a real-time, voice-enabled AI guidance
- Uber launched Cart Assistant in the Uber Eats app, a new AI-powered feature designed to help users build grocery baskets faster and with less effort
- The University of Nebraska launched the Artificial Intelligence Institute, a systemwide initiative that will harness emerging technologies to serve society, grow the economy and support future generations through education, interdisciplinary research, teaching, workforce development and public engagement
- Women in CyberSecurity, an organization dedicated to recruiting, retaining and advancing women in cybersecurity, launched its AI Security Accelerator Program, a targeted professional development initiative designed to support unemployed, underemployed and incumbent mid-career cybersecurity professionals in Maryland as they transition into high-demand roles at the intersection of artificial intelligence and security
- Intuit launched a new construction edition for Intuit Enterprise Suite, an AI-native, end-to-end ERP, to bring project, financial, and operational workflows together in one place, helping customers streamline operations, improve cash flow, and deliver real-time visibility into performance to drive profitable growth at scale
- Educational Testing Service, an education and talent solutions firm, launched Futurenav Adapt AI for teachers, an assessment that generates AI readiness insights for K-12 educators
- Westlake Royal Building Products, a Westlake company, launched Design Canvas, an AI home design tool that empowers homeowners, designers and building professionals to plan and visualize exterior projects
- Wesfarmers, the largest private employer in Australia, partnered with Microsoft to collaborate and co-innovate on a range of digital initiatives to further accelerate and embed AI, support agentic development, and expand cloud innovation across Wesfarmers’ portfolio of businesses
- Kearney, a global management consulting firm, partnered with ServiceNow, an AI control tower for business reinvention, to help organizations unlock enterprise-scale value through agentic AI
- Tempus AI, a developer of AI-enabled precision medicine technology, partnered with Median Technologies, developer of medical imaging software and services dedicated to oncology clinical trials, screening, and clinical practice, to bring Median’s proprietary eyonis LCS to the Tempus Pixel platform
- Luma AI, developer of tools that let users generate photorealistic images and videos from text, image, or video prompts, announced it will be opening an office in Riyadh that will support ongoing development of the world’s first Saudi-built, Arabic-native foundation model to be deployed through HUMAIN Create, HUMAIN’s generative AI initiative and platform that brings together advanced AI models, tools, and infrastructure
- Unilever and Google Cloud partnered accelerate Unilever’s business transformation through its use of Google Cloud’s advanced AI, data, platform and next-generation marketing capabilities
- London Stock Exchange Group and Bank of America partnered to make LSEG’s data, analytics and workflow capabilities available across Bank of America’s platforms to unlock next generation data, analytics and AI ready content for clients
Strategic and AI Startup Collaborations
- Paypal partnered with Sabre Corporation, a software and technology company that powers the global travel industry, and Mindtrip, an AI travel assistant that creates personalised itineraries, recommends activities and stays, and organises trips, to deliver an agentic AI experience that reimagines how consumers discover, plan, book, and manage travel
- HCLTech, a company offering digital, engineering, and cloud solutions, partnered with Cisco to launch an enhanced version of its Fluid Contact Center solution which features AI and cloud‑enabled capabilities to help enterprises transform customer engagement
- Commonwealth Credit Union and Zest AI, a provider of AI-powered credit underwriting solutions, partnered to launch CU Lending Collective, a CUSO created specifically to help small credit unions adopt and deploy advanced AI-powered lending technology
- Ubie, an AI-driven and clinically vetted healthcare prediction platform designed to guide patients to the care they need, partnered with Mayo Clinic to co-develop Ubie Smart Support, a new interface with the goal of reinventing how patients navigate, access and engage with health systems and payers
- Anthropic partnered with CodePath, a provider of collegiate computer science education, to redesign its coding curriculum, putting Claude and Claude Code at the center of its courses and career programs
- Cognizant expanded its partnership with Google Cloud, advancing from platform integration to enterprise-scale execution to help organizations operationalize agentic AI in real-world environments
- Jifmar Group, owner and operator of a fleet of specialized workboats deployed on maritime and offshore projects worldwide, and Seavium, a SaaS platform dedicated to digitalizing offshore vessel chartering and operations, partnered to deploy advanced digital and AI-driven capabilities across Jifmar’s fleet and internal workflows
- Vista, the K-12 division of Vista Higher Learning, a publishing company specializing in languages programs, launched a new AI Innovation Partnership Program to support districts, schools, and educators, empowering them to use AI to extend lessons, create engaging activities, and adapt Vista content in new ways
- The Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute, a partnership between Northwestern Mutual, Marquette University, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee that promoted AI and data science-driven transformation of academia and industry throughout southeastern Wisconsin, expanded to include the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee School of Engineering, and Waukesha County Technical College
- SPAR International, a food retail chain, partnered with Veesion, a provider of AI-powered retail loss prevention so SPAR licensed operators can use Veesion’s video detection technology to reduce theft-related losses
- Wherobots, a spatial intelligence cloud, and Felt, a collaborative mapping platform, partnered to create a unified, cloud-native, and AI enabled ecosystem
- Leah a provider of agentic AI solutions that harmonize workflows, empower teams, and unleash enterprise potential, partnered with PwC UK to power the design, deployment, and scaling of coordinated AI agents in the design and stand up of new-age operating models across Global Business Services
- Tranquility AI, a provider of investigative technology solutions, partnered with the Criminology Program at Mount Aloysius College, with Mount Aloysius becoming the first criminology program in the nation to integrate Tranquility AI’s evidence analysis platform, TimePilot, into its curriculum
- Gaxos.ai, a company developing artificial intelligence applications across various high-growth sectors, partnered with Byteplus, the Enterprise Technology Division of ByteDance, to receive preferred pricing and significant discounts on ByteDance’s video generation models, enabling faster deployment of AI capabilities inside Art-Gen, Gaxos’ flagship AI image and video creation platform
- Sift Healthcare, a healthcare payments intelligence company leveraging data science and AI to improve healthcare reimbursement and revenue cycle performance, partnered with Hartford HealthCare, an integrated health system
AI Startup Acquisitions
- Palo Alto Networks acquired CyberArk, a platform that delivers unified security for human, machine and agentic identity
- Palo Alto Networks acquired Koi, a provider of Agentic Endpoint Security
- Proofpoint, a cybersecurity and compliance company, acquired Acuvity, a AI enterprise security and governance company
- Mistral AI acquired Koyeb, a startup that simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages the infrastructure behind it
- BridgeWise, a provider of AI for wealth, acquired Context Analytics, an AI-powered alternative data processing company
- Rezolve Ai, a global commerce and AI company, acquired Reward, a provider of customer engagement and commerce media
- Salesforce acquired Cimulate, an AI-powered product discovery and agentic commerce platform
- Thomson Reuters acquired Noetica, an AI-native start-up that transforms transaction-deal data into structured market intelligence for deal professionals
- Keycard, a provider of an identity and access platform for AI agents, acquired Anchor.dev, a startup focused on making certificate issuance and validation automatic
- Eerly AI, an enterprise AI platform, acquired RehvUp Technologies, a provider of employee productivity and engagement intelligence
- Doctrine, a legal AI company helping lawyers automate legal research, case analysis, and drafting to work faster and with greater confidence, acquired Maite.ai, a legal AI platform designed to increase the productivity and efficiency of legal professionals
AI Outtakes
- Chinese technology giant ByteDance promised to curb its AI video-making tool, Seedance, following threats of legal action from Disney and other Hollywood studios, which accused the company of copyright infringement. Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance accusing it of supplying Seedance with a “pirated library” of the studio’s copyrighted characters, including those from Marvel and Star Wars and of committing a “virtual smash-and-grab” of their intellectual property
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