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Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic Join Forces in $30B AI Superdeal

PLUS: OpenAI and Intuit Strike $100M+ Deal to Bring TurboTax to ChatGPT, Gemini 3 Now Powers Google Search with Smarter, Visual Answers and more.

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Today:

  • Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic Join Forces in $30B AI Superdeal

  • Top Meta AI Talent Joins Murati’s $50B AI Moonshot

  • Alibaba Launches Qwen AI App to Compete in Consumer Chatbot Market

  • OpenAI and Intuit Strike $100M+ Deal to Bring TurboTax to ChatGPT

  • Gemini 3 Now Powers Google Search with Smarter, Visual Answers

Anthropic is scaling its Claude AI model on Microsoft Azure, using NVIDIA hardware. The three firms are deepening partnerships: Anthropic will buy $30B in Azure compute, get up to $15B in investments, and work closely with NVIDIA to fine-tune future models and chips.

KEY POINTS

  • $30B Azure Deal: Anthropic commits to $30 billion in Microsoft Azure compute, with plans for up to 1 gigawatt of capacity.

  • NVIDIA Engineering Partnership: Anthropic and NVIDIA will co-design models and hardware, using Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems.

  • Broader Claude Access: Claude models will be available across Microsoft platforms (Foundry, 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot), and Anthropic now spans all top cloud platforms.

Why it matters

This deal shows how key AI companies are teaming up to grow faster. With big investments and tech help from Microsoft and NVIDIA, Anthropic can train smarter models and offer more tools to businesses. It also puts Claude on every major cloud making it more widely available than ever.

PyTorch cofounder Soumith Chintala has left Meta and joined Mira Murati’s AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab. His move follows major Meta restructuring and marks another high-profile hire for the rapidly growing, well-funded lab focused on building tools for human-AI collaboration.

KEY POINTS

  • Major Talent Move: Soumith Chintala, creator of PyTorch, joins Thinking Machines Lab after leaving Meta.

  • Aggressive Growth: The startup has hired top researchers from OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic, offering up to $500K salaries.

  • Big Funding: Raised $2B at a $10B valuation and is now in talks for $50B valuation, signaling huge investor confidence.

Why it matters

This shows how fast the AI world is changing. Big names like Chintala are moving to smaller but bold startups. Thinking Machines is building powerful tools and attracting top talent, which means more competition and faster innovation in the AI race.

Alibaba has launched a major upgrade to its Qwen AI chatbot, rebranding it from Tongyi and releasing it as a free mobile and web app in China. This marks a shift toward everyday users after lagging behind ByteDance and others in the consumer AI race.

KEY POINTS

  • New Qwen App Launched: Alibaba’s upgraded chatbot generates research reports and slide decks with a single command, now available for public beta in China.

  • Shift to Consumer Focus: After focusing on business tools, Alibaba is now targeting personal use amid intense competition and a domestic AI price war.

  • Lagging in Adoption: Previous versions struggled, with only 7M monthly users in September vs. ByteDance’s 150M and DeepSeek’s 73.4M.

Why it matters

Alibaba is making a serious move into the AI race for regular users, not just businesses. With smart tools like Qwen and strong backing, it’s trying to catch up to faster-moving rivals like ByteDance. The competition could lead to better, cheaper AI for everyone.

🧠RESEARCH

A new AI model called P1, trained using reinforcement learning, has achieved gold-medal performance in the 2025 International Physics Olympiad. Open-source and agent-enhanced, it topped 13 global physics contests and also excels in math and coding, marking a major step toward real scientific reasoning in AI.

Uni-MoE 2.0 is a powerful open-source AI model that understands and creates text, images, and speech. Built with smarter training, efficient expert routing, and rich multimodal data, it outperforms previous models on over 50 tasks. It excels in video analysis, speech recognition, and generating detailed, controllable visual content.

MiroThinker v1.0 is a powerful open-source research agent that introduces “interaction scaling” — training the model to engage in deeper, longer tool-based tasks. With up to 600 tool calls per task and a 256K context window, it rivals GPT-5-level agents in multi-step reasoning and complex information-seeking workflows.

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🗞️MORE NEWS

  • OpenAI and Intuit announced a $100M+ partnership to integrate Intuit apps like TurboTax and QuickBooks into ChatGPT. This deal brings smarter, AI-powered financial tools directly into the ChatGPT experience for consumers and businesses.

  • Google has added Gemini 3, its smartest AI yet, to Search. It answers complex questions with deeper understanding and now builds interactive visuals, tools, and simulations tailored to each query, making learning and problem-solving easier.

  • Microsoft is turning Windows 11 into an “agentic OS” by adding AI agents directly to the taskbar. These assistants can automate tasks, search files, and interact with apps — all while running securely in the background.

  • Cloudflare has acquired Replicate, a platform for running AI models. The move merges Replicate’s vast model catalog with Cloudflare’s global network, enabling developers to run, fine-tune, and deploy AI models more easily and efficiently.

  • AI data center startup Lambda raised $1.5B, led by billionaire-backed TWG Global. This follows a major AI infrastructure deal with Microsoft. Lambda, a CoreWeave rival, supplies Nvidia GPU-powered “AI factories” to cloud giants.

  • OpenAI’s Fidji Simo is leading efforts to address AI’s mental health risks. Her first tasks included safety measures, teen protections, and handling user crises—contrasting sharply with Meta’s slower response to product-driven societal harms.

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