Hacker News with Generative AI: Partnerships

xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app (techcrunch.com)
Telegram has struck a partnership with Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, to distribute the latter’s chatbot, Grok, via Telegram and integrate it into apps available on the chat app’s platform for one year.

Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Social Media, Partnerships

322 points by freetonik 30 days ago | 397 comments

UAE becomes first to offer ChatGPT Plus to every resident and citizen (thearabianstories.com)
Dubai: The move is part of a sweeping new partnership with OpenAI under the ambitious “Stargate UAE” initiative to build the largest AI supercomputing cluster on the planet.

Artificial Intelligence, UAE, OpenAI, Partnerships

12 points by domh 32 days ago | 2 comments

A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: White Labeling and Partnerships in the HVAC Industry (heatpumped.org)
Heat pump manufacturing is a maze of re-branding, white labeling, and complex partnerships. Despite the seemingly endless array of brands on the market, there are only a handful of factories actually manufacturing equipment behind the scenes. What looks like a diverse selection of options often boils down to the same product with a different name slapped on the side.

HVAC, Partnerships, Business, Industry, Manufacturing

21 points by ssuds 34 days ago | 4 comments

Red Hat partners with SiFive for a RISC-V developer preview of RHEL 10 (redhat.com)
Red Hat has collaborated with SiFive to reveal the developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 on the popular SiFive HiFive Premier P550 platform.

Linux, RISC-V, Developer Tools, Partnerships, Operating Systems

21 points by fork-bomber 38 days ago | 0 comments

Google inks deal to develop 1.8 GW of advanced nuclear power (techcrunch.com)
Google and nuclear site developer Elementl Power announced this week that they will work together on three sites for advanced nuclear reactors.

Google, Nuclear Power, Energy, Technology, Partnerships

4 points by mikece 49 days ago | 0 comments

Apple Tries to Save $20B Google Search Deal by Saying It's Unnecessary (bloomberg.com)
Apple Inc. made an unusual pitch in its bid to save a lucrative search partnership with Alphabet Inc.’s Google, saying that the deal might not be necessary in the long run and that even the iPhone may fall out of use.

Business, Technology, Apple, Google, Partnerships

10 points by mfiguiere 51 days ago | 1 comments

Anthropic Development Partner Program (anthropic.com)
The Development Partner Program is an optional, transparent way for organizations to help shape the future of Claude while maintaining control over their data.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Partnerships, Business

26 points by uzyn 56 days ago | 8 comments

Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment (waymo.com)
Toyota Motor Corporation (“Toyota”) and Waymo reached a preliminary agreement to explore a collaboration focused on accelerating the development and deployment of autonomous driving technologies.

Autonomous Driving, Partnerships, Transportation, Technology, Automotive

391 points by ra7 59 days ago | 382 comments

Kaggle and the Wikimedia Foundation are partnering on open data (google)
Kaggle and the Wikimedia Foundation are partnering on open data.

Open Data, Partnerships, Wikimedia Foundation, Kaggle

136 points by xnx 72 days ago | 38 comments

Hyundai to buy 'thousands' of Boston Dynamics robots (therobotreport.com)
Boston Dynamics Inc. and Hyundai Motor Group yesterday announced plans to deepen their partnership, which includes Hyundai purchasing “tens of thousands” of robots in the coming years.

Robotics, Partnerships, Business, Hyundai, Boston Dynamics

57 points by ivewonyoung 83 days ago | 64 comments

Taco Bell parent Yum Brands partners with Nvidia to speed up use of AI (cnbc.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Fast Food, Technology, Partnerships

8 points by gmays 85 days ago | 0 comments

DoorDash and Klarna signed deal where customers can pay for food in installments (unusualwhales.com)

Fintech, Food Delivery, Payments, Partnerships

9 points by nradov 98 days ago | 8 comments

TSMC Pitches Intel Foundry JV to Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom (cnbc.com)

Semiconductors, Technology, Business, Partnerships, Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom

9 points by alephnerd 107 days ago | 0 comments

TSMC pitches Intel foundry joint venture to Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom (seekingalpha.com)

TSMC, Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, Semiconductor Industry, Partnerships

34 points by eagleislandsong 108 days ago | 3 comments

Ride into the Future with Waymo on Uber in Austin (uber.com)
Starting today, Austin riders can be matched with a Waymo autonomous vehicle (AV) on the Uber app, making your next trip even more special.

Autonomous Vehicles, Ride-Hailing, Austin, Partnerships

43 points by ChrisArchitect 115 days ago | 92 comments

Arm secures Meta as first customer for ambitious new chip project (ft.com)

Arm, Meta, Semiconductors, Partnerships, Technology

14 points by mfiguiere 134 days ago | 3 comments

Mullvad has partnered with Obscura VPN (mullvad.net)
Today we are announcing a partnership with Obscura VPN, a newly launched two-party VPN service that uses our WireGuard VPN servers as its “exit hop”.

VPN, Partnerships, Privacy, Security

17 points by dgavrilov 136 days ago | 4 comments

OpenAI announces SoftBank partnership as fallout from DeepSeek continues (semafor.com)
OpenAI announced a joint venture with Japan’s SoftBank on Monday, with the investment giant spending $3 billion a year to use OpenAI software, in an apparent change of strategy following DeepSeek’s unexpected rise.

OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Investments, Business, Partnerships

18 points by thunderbong 143 days ago | 17 comments

We're accelerating the Android XR platform with a new agreement with HTC (google)
We’ve been investing in XR for more than a decade, and just last month introduced the Android XR platform with our strategic industry partners. Today we signed an agreement to welcome some of the HTC VIVE engineering team to Google, which is subject to customary closing conditions.

Android, XR, Partnerships, Technology, Google

56 points by ytch 155 days ago | 69 comments

Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers (apnews.com)
President Donald Trump on Tuesday talked up a joint venture investing up to $500 billion for infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence by a new partnership formed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank.

Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Partnerships, Investments, Technology

1021 points by tedsanders 157 days ago | 1538 comments

Rivian stock rises as Volkswagen plans to expand $5.8 billion EV partnership (electrek.co)
Rivian’s (RIVN) stock is trending on Friday after Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume hinted at expanding upon their new EV partnership.

Electric Vehicles, Stock Market, Volkswagen, Partnerships

7 points by zfg 161 days ago | 0 comments

Nissan, Honda, and Mitsubishi Motors sign MOU on collaborative considerations (global.honda)
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. ("Nissan"), Honda Motor Co., Ltd. ("Honda"), and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation ("Mitsubishi Motors") have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore the possibility of Mitsubishi Motors’ participation, involvement, and synergy sharing in relation to the business integration through the establishment of a joint holding company outlined in an MOU signed between Nissan and Honda.

Automotive, Partnerships, Japan, Business, Joint Ventures

3 points by samdung 183 days ago | 1 comments

Cohere is working with Palantir to deploy its AI models (techcrunch.com)
Cohere is one of the best-known AI startups outside of OpenAI and Anthropic, hitting a $5.5 billion valuation as of July. It’s co-founded by an author of the “Attention Is All You Need” paper that helped launch the large language model (LLM) revolution.

Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Partnerships

7 points by brody_slade_ai 193 days ago | 0 comments

Android XR (google)
In partnership with Samsung and Qualcomm, we announced Android XR, a platform to extend your reality to explore, connect and create in new ways.

Android, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mobile Technology, Partnerships

354 points by dagmx 197 days ago | 299 comments

Tech companies Palantir and Anduril form fellowship for AI adventures (theregister.com)
Two tech businesses that were independently named after objects from The Lord of the Rings have formed a partnership – or should that be a fellowship?

Artificial Intelligence, Partnerships, Tech Companies

37 points by YeGoblynQueenne 200 days ago | 34 comments

Palantir, Anduril to save data from battlefield to train AI models (businesstimes.com.sg)
SOFTWARE company Palantir Technologies and weapons maker Anduril Industries plan to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the US military and are inviting other companies to join the effort.

Military, Artificial Intelligence, Data, Technology, Partnerships

13 points by hackandthink 201 days ago | 0 comments

Anduril Partners with OpenAI to Advance US AI Leadership and Protect US Forces (anduril.com)
A family of autonomous systems, powered by Lattice, that provides integrated, persistent awareness and security across land, sea and air -- all at the tactical edge.

Artificial Intelligence, Military Technology, Partnerships

26 points by sandwichsphinx 205 days ago | 4 comments

Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal (arstechnica.com)
Anthropic has announced a partnership with Palantir and Amazon Web Services to bring its Claude AI models to unspecified US intelligence and defense agencies.

Artificial Intelligence, Government, Security, Partnerships

239 points by lawls 231 days ago | 184 comments

Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers (techcrunch.com)
Anthropic on Thursday said it is teaming up with data analytics firm Palantir and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide U.S. intelligence and defense agencies access to Anthropic’s Claude family of AI models.

Artificial Intelligence, Defense, Cloud Computing, Partnerships

84 points by handfuloflight 232 days ago | 92 comments

Fujitsu, AMD Plan to Pair Monaka CPUs with Instinct GPUs (theregister.com)
Fujitsu and AMD announced plans on Friday to develop a new, more energy-efficient AI and HPC compute platform that will pair the Japanese tech vendor's next-gen CPUs with the House of Zen's Instinct accelerators.

AI, CPUs, GPUs, Hardware, Partnerships

5 points by rbanffy 236 days ago | 0 comments