Google Cloud capitalizes on the AI surge, amassing a staggering $106 billion backlog as customers flock to its AI services, fueling billions in revenue through consumption-based pricing and subscriptions, with over 50% expected to materialize within two years.
Alibaba unveils Qwen-3-Max-Preview, a groundbreaking trillion-parameter language model, boosting AI capabilities with enhanced Chinese-English comprehension, instruction following, and complex query handling, available on Alibaba Cloud and OpenRouter at a premium price.
Modal Notebooks offers a blazing-fast collaborative environment for high-performance interactive computing, with cold-start in under 5 seconds, scalable up to 256 vCPUs and 8 H100/B200 GPUs, enabling real-time collaboration, seamless editing, and interactive app sharing.
OpenAI and Microsoft sign groundbreaking deal to restructure their partnership, paving the way for OpenAI's transformation from nonprofit to for-profit entity potentially valued at over $100 billion while resolving competitive tensions and expanding OpenAI's cloud computing options.
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman announces massive compute investments to build training clusters 6-10 times larger than current 15,000 H100 systems, while the company reportedly plans to integrate Anthropic's AI models into Microsoft 365 Copilot after they outperformed OpenAI models in Excel and PowerPoint.
Microsoft provides free AI resources including Microsoft 365 Personal, LinkedIn Learning courses, $1.25 million in educator grants, and expanded access to Microsoft Elevate, empowering students and educators in the field of artificial intelligence.
Massive investments by tech giants into AI data centers are driving U.S. economic growth, with spending on AI infrastructure surpassing consumer spending and nearing 2% of GDP, diverting capital from other sectors like venture capital and manufacturing.
In a groundbreaking alliance, Amazon teams up with Anthropic, providing multi-gigawatt Trainium-powered infrastructure for training GenAI models, propelling Anthropic's dominance with a fivefold revenue surge to $5B annualized, outperforming rivals through scaling laws optimization.
Microsoft unveils a comprehensive curriculum with 11 lessons, covering AI agent frameworks, design patterns, tools, trustworthy agent development, and deployment, utilizing Azure AI Foundry, GitHub Model Catalogs, and Microsoft's AI agent frameworks like Semantic Kernel and AutoGen.
Cloud services and AI tools like ChatGPT are fueling demand for versatile data generalists over narrowly specialized roles, as startups seek professionals who can handle end-to-end data pipelines from a single platform.