WHEN |
WHAT |
WHO |
WHERE |
HOW MUCH |
| Nov. 12, 2024 |
Red Hat to acquire AI inferencing company Neural Magic |
Red Hat, Neural Magic |
|
Undisclosed |
| Nov. 3, 2024 |
Microsoft to spend $10 billion through 2030 to rent CoreWeave servers for its AI projects |
Microsoft, CoreWeave |
|
$10 billion |
| Oct. 15, 2024 |
AI datacenter company Crusoe joins a $3.4 billion venture to build new infrastructure in Texas, reportedly for Oracle |
Crusoe, Blue Owl, Oracle |
Texas |
$3.4 billion |
| Oct. 2, 2024 |
Microsoft to spend $420 million to build an Ohio datacenter, the first of "several" in the state |
Microsoft |
Ohio |
$420 million |
| Oct. 2, 2024 |
Microsoft to spend €4.3 billion ($4.7 billion) over two years on AI and cloud infrastructure in Italy |
Microsoft |
Italy |
$4.7 billion |
| Oct. 2, 2024 |
OpenAI's valuation is now at $157 billion, having raised $6.6 billion in its latest funding round |
OpenAI |
|
$6.6 billion |
| Sept. 30, 2024 |
Softbank invests half-a-billion dollars in OpenAI |
OpenAI, Softbank |
|
$500 million |
| Sept. 26. 2024 |
Microsoft to spend 14.7 billion Reais (U.S. $2.7 billion) over three years on AI and cloud infrastructure in Brazil |
Microsoft |
Brazil |
$2.7 billion |
| Sept. 24, 2024 |
Microsoft to spend $1.3 billion over three years to expand AI infrastructure and education in Mexico |
Microsoft |
Mexico |
$1.3 billion |
| Sept. 17, 2024 |
BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners, MGX and Microsoft launch an investment fund to support datacenter buildouts |
Microsoft, Nvidia, Blackrock, others |
United States |
$30 billion |
| Sept. 16, 2024 |
Intel to build AI chips for AWS in multibillion-dollar agreement |
Amazon, Intel |
|
"Multibillion" |
| Sept. 11, 2024 |
Amazon to spend $1.8 billion through 2034 to expand its datacenter footprint in Brazil |
Amazon |
Brazil |
$1.8 billion |
| Sept. 11, 2024 |
OpenAI's next founding round might be worth $6.5 billion, which would bring its valuation to $150 billion (instead of $100 billion) |
OpenAI, Thrive Capital, Nvidia, Apple |
|
$6.5 billion |
| Sept. 11, 2024 |
AWS to invest billions over five years to expand its datacenter footprint in the U.K. |
Amazon |
United Kingdom |
$10.45 billion |
| Sept. 5, 2024 |
Nvidia contributes to a $160 million funding round for HPC infrastructure firm Applied Digital |
Applied Digital, Nvidia, others |
|
$160 Million |
| Sept. 4, 2024 |
Superintelligence company founded by ex-OpenAI scientist Ilya Sutskever raises $1 billion, bringing its valuation to a reported $5 billion |
Safe Superintelligence |
|
$1 billion |
| Sept. 3, 2024 |
OpenAI reportely planning massive billion-dollar AI infrastructure buildout, starting in U.S. |
OpenAI |
United States |
"Billions" |
| Aug. 29, 2024 |
OpenAI's valuation is poised to reach $100 billion after an investment deal led by Thrive Capital, Nvidia and Apple |
OpenAI, Thrive Capital, Nvidia, Apple |
|
$100 billion |
| Aug. 20, 2024 |
OpenAI inks a content licensing deal with Condé Nast |
OpenAI, Condé Nast |
|
Undisclosed |
| Aug. 19, 2024 |
AMD acquires hyperscale server provider ZT Systems to supplement AMD's AI systems |
AMD, ZT Systems |
|
$4.9 billion |
| Aug. 14, 2024 |
Amazon acquires edge AI inferencing company Perceive |
Amazon, Perceive |
|
$80 million |
| Aug. 2, 2024 |
Google hires top researchers from Character.AI and inks licensing deal for its technology |
Google, Character.AI |
|
$2.5 billion |
| July 24, 2024 |
Microsoft taps network giant Lumen to expand its AI infrastructure |
Microsoft, Lumen |
|
Undisclosed |
| July 22, 2024 |
Cohere raises another $500 million from Cisco, AMD and others, bringing its valuation to $5.5 billion |
Cohere, Cisco, AMD, others |
|
$500 million |
| July 17, 2024 |
Anthropic and Menlo jointly launch a $100 million AI startup fund |
Anthropic, Menlo Ventures |
|
$100 million |
| July 16, 2024 |
AI search startup Exa raises $17 million in Series A funding, with participation from Nvidia's VC arm |
Exa, Nvidia, others |
|
$17 million |
| July 11, 2024 |
Japan-based SoftBank has acquired AI chip startup Graphcore, which is valued at an estimated $2.8 billion |
Graphcore, SoftBank |
|
$400 million |
| July 9, 2024 |
VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is reportedly hoarding over 20,000 GPUs to rent to startups |
Andreessen Horowitz |
|
Undisclosed |
| July 9, 2024 |
Cloud object storage Storj acquires Valdi, a provider of on-demand AI-optimized GPUs |
Storj, Valdi |
|
Undisclosed |
| July 8, 2024 |
AI startup Hebbia raises $130 million in Series B funding |
Hebbia, Google, Andreessen Horowitz, others |
|
$130 million |
| June 28, 2024 |
Amazon licenses Adept's AI technologies and poaches its top executives |
Amazon, Adept |
|
Undisclosed |
| June 27, 2024 |
OpenAI enters a content partnership with publisher TIME |
OpenAI, TIME |
|
Undisclosed |
| June 26, 2024 |
AWS launches a $50 million fund to provide free AI tools access to public sector companies |
AWS |
|
$50 million |
| June 21, 2024 |
OpenAI acquires database database firm Rockset, which was reportedly valued at "a few hundred millions" |
OpenAI, Rockset |
|
"Nine figures" |
| June 15, 2024 |
Japan-based Sakana is set to raise $125 million, bringing its valuation to $1.1 billion |
Sakana AI |
|
$125 million |
| June 14, 2024 |
Microsoft plans to spend over $7.1 billion over 10 years to build new datacenters in Spain |
Microsoft |
Spain |
$7.1 billion |
| June 13, 2024 |
AWS launches AI startup fund worth $230 million |
AWS |
|
$230 million |
| June 11, 2024 |
Mistral raises another $643.7 million, bringing its valuation to about $6.2 billion |
Mistral |
|
$643.7 million |
| June 11, 2024 |
Oracle lends Microsoft cloud capacity to support OpenAI |
Oracle, Microsoft, OpenAI |
|
Undisclosed |
| June 10, 2024 |
Apple partners with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into its products |
Apple, OpenAI |
|
Undisclosed (reportedly nothing) |
| June 4, 2024 |
Microsoft to spend $1 billion to build a new datacenter in northwest Indiana |
Microsoft |
Indiana, USA |
$1 billion |
| June 4, 2024 |
Cisco launches $1 billion AI investment fund, with Mistral, Cohere and Scale AI its earliest beneficiaries |
Cisco, Mistral, Cohere, Scale AI |
|
$1 billion |
| June 4, 2024 |
Nvidia, Salesforce and Cisco contribute to funding round that earns Cohere $450 million |
Cohere, Nvidia, Cisco, Salesforce |
|
$450 million |
| June 4, 2024 |
AI startup Touchcast raises $100 million in funding from Microsoft, OpenAI and others |
Touchcast, Microsoft, OpenAI & others |
|
$100 million |
| June 3, 2024 |
Cloudera acquires Verta's Operational AI Platform for its machine learning group |
Cloudera, Verta |
|
Undisclosed |
| June 3, 2024 |
Microsoft invests about $3.2 billion over two years to expand its AI and cloud infrastructure in Sweden |
Microsoft |
Sweden |
$3.2 billion |
| June 3, 2024 |
Microsoft and Hitachi ink a three-year deal to integrate Hitachi's industry software with Microsoft's AI technologies |
Microsoft, Hitachi |
|
"Multibillion" |
| May 30, 2024 |
Google commits $2 billion to build its first datacenter in Malaysia and start an AI literacy effort |
Google |
Malaysia |
$2 billion |
| May 29, 2024 |
PwC signs on to become OpenAI's biggest customer and first reseller |
OpenAI, PWC |
|
Undisclosed |
| May 29, 2024 |
OpenAI and The Atlantic agree on a content partnership |
OpenAI, The Atlantic |
|
Undisclosed |
| May 29, 2024 |
OpenAI and Vox Media, owner of The Verge and other publications, enter into a content licensing agreement |
OpenAI, Vox Media |
|
Undisclosed |
| May 26, 2024 |
xAI gets $6 billion in funding round |
xAI |
|
$6 billion |
| May 22, 2024 |
AWS commits $17 billion over 10 years to expand its Aragon region |
AWS |
Spain |
$17 billion |
| May 22, 2024 |
OpenAI inks five-year content licensing deal with News Corp, owner of New York Times, Wall Street Journal and others |
OpenAI, News Corp |
|
$250 million |
| May 22, 2024 |
G42, with backing from Microsoft, commits to $1 billion infrastructure buildout in Kenya. |
Microsoft, G42 |
Kenya |
$1 billion |
| May 21, 2024 |
French AI startup H raises $220 million in seed round |
H, AWS, Samsung & other VCs |
|
$220 million |
| May 21, 2024 |
Scale AI raises $1 billion in funding round |
Scale AI, AMD, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta, Intel, Qualcomm & others |
|
$1 billion |
| May 20, 2024 |
Google announces plan to spend about $1.1 billion to retrofit its Finland datacenter with energy-saving technology |
Google |
Finland |
$1.1 billion |
| May 16, 2024 |
OpenAI and Reddit ink a content partnership |
OpenAI, Reddit |
|
Undisclosed |
| May 8, 2024 |
Microsoft to invest $3.3 billion to expand its AI infrastructure in Wisconsin |
Microsoft |
Wisconsin, USA |
$3.3 billion |
| May 1, 2024 |
Microsoft announces plan to build new cloud and AI infrastructure in Thailand |
Microsoft |
Thailand |
"Significant" |
| April 30, 2024 |
Microsoft commits $1.7 billion over four years to build out its AI and cloud infrastructure in Indonesia |
Microsoft |
Indonesia |
$1.7 billion |
| April 26, 2024 |
Google to establish a new Indiana datacenter for $2 billion |
Google |
Indiana, USA |
$2 billion |
| April 26, 2024 |
Google to spend $1 billion to expand its Virginia datacenter |
Google |
Virginia, USA |
$1 billion |
| April 25, 2024 |
AWS plans to spend $11 billion to build new infrastructure in Indiana |
AWS |
Indiana, USA |
$11 billion |
| April 24, 2024 |
IBM acquires HashiCorp to, in part, boost its capabilities around AI workloads |
IBM, HashiCorp |
|
$6.4 billion |
| April 24, 2024 |
Nvidia spends a reported $700 million to acquire AI container startup Run:ai |
Nvidia, Run:ai |
|
$700 million |
| April 23, 2024 |
Perplexity funding round raises $62.7 million |
Perplexity, Nvidia, Jeff Bezos & others |
|
$62.7 million |
| April 15, 2024 |
Microsoft invests $1.5 billion in Abu Dhabi-based AI partner G42, making it a minority owner |
Microsoft, G42 |
|
$1.5 billion |
| April 9, 2024 |
Microsoft commits $2.9 billion to build cloud and AI infrastructure in Japan |
Microsoft |
Japan |
$2.9 billion |
| April 3, 2024 |
Nvidia to work with Indonesian government and local telco giant Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison to build an "AI Center" |
Nvidia |
Indonesia |
$200 million |
| March 21, 2024 |
Microsoft pays Inflection AI $650 million to license its AI software |
Microsoft, Inflection AI |
|
$650 million |
| March 20, 2024 |
Google to invest $1 billion to open a new datacenter in Kansas City, Mo. |
Google |
Missouri, USA |
$1 billion |
| March 27, 2024 |
AWS completes $4 billion investment in Anthropic |
Anthropic, AWS |
|
$2.75 billion (of $4 billion total) |
| March 18, 2024 |
Cisco acquires Splunk for $28 billion to, in part, strengthen the AI capabilities in its offerings |
Cisco, Splunk |
|
$28 billion |
| March 14, 2024 |
Apple acquires Canadian AI startup DarwinAI |
Apple, DarwinAI |
|
Undisclosed |
| March 4, 2024 |
AWS to build a cloud region in Saudi Arabia by 2026 |
AWS |
Saudi Arabia |
$5.3 billion |
| Feb. 29, 2024 |
AI robotics company Figure receives $675 million from Microsoft, Nvidia, Intel, OpenAI and others, giving it a $2.6 billion valuation |
Figure, Microsoft, Nvidia, Intel, OpenAI & others |
|
$675 million |
| Feb. 26, 2024 |
AWS to establish a new cloud region in Mexico by next year and spend $5 billion by 2039 on infrastructure |
AWS |
Mexico |
$5 billion |
| Feb. 26, 2024 |
Microsoft enters into multiyear partnership with Mistral |
Microsoft, Mistral |
|
Undisclosed |
| Feb. 21, 2024 |
Microsoft has signed an estimated $15 billion deal with Intel to tap the latter's foundry services |
Microsoft, Intel |
|
$15 billion |
| Feb. 19, 2024 |
Microsoft commits $2.1 billion over two years to its datacenter buildout in Spain |
Microsoft |
Spain |
$2.1 billion |
| Feb. 16, 2024 |
OpenAI is now valued at north of $80 billion after the close of a tender offer |
OpenAI |
|
$80 billion |
| Feb. 15, 2024 |
Microsoft commits $3.4B to expand its German infrastructure footprint over two years |
Microsoft |
Germany |
$3.4 billion |
| Feb. 5, 2024 |
Nvidia acquires AI startup Deci |
Nvidia, Deci |
|
$300 million |
| Jan. 25, 2024 |
Meta to invest $800 million to build AI datacenter in Indiana |
Meta |
Indiana, USA |
$800 million |
| Jan. 25, 2024 |
AWS commits $10 billion to build two new datacenter complexes in Mississippi |
AWS |
Mississippi, USA |
$10 billion |
| Jan. 19, 2024 |
AWS to spend about $14.5 billion through 2027 to expand its Japan infrastructure |
AWS |
Japan |
$14.5 billion |
| Jan. 18, 2024 |
IBM to acquire application modernization capabilities from Advanced in an AI and cloud play |
IBM, Advanced |
|
Undisclosed |
| Jan. 18, 2024 |
Arizona State University becomes the first higher education institution to work with OpenAI to use generative AI in education |
OpenAI, Arizona State University |
|
Undisclosed |
| Jan. 9, 2024 |
HPE acquires Juniper Networks for about $14 billion in equity in search for AI technology gains |
HPE, Juniper |
|
$14 billion |
| Jan. 4, 2024 |
Perplexity raises $73.6 million in funding round |
Perplexity, Nvidia, Databricks, Jeff Bezos & others |
|
$73.6 million |
| Dec. 4, 2023 |
Nvidia contributes to a $487 million funding round for Mistral, giving the startup a valuation of about $2 billion |
Mistral, Nvidia, Salesforce & others |
|
$487 million |
| Nov. 8, 2023 |
AWS reportedly plans to spend "millions" on an LLM called Olympus |
AWS |
|
"Millions" |
| Oct. 27, 2023 |
Google commits $2 billion to invest in Anthropic, starting with $500 million upfront |
Google, Anthropic |
|
$500 million (of $2 billion total) |
| Oct. 24, 2023 |
IBM acquires Manta Software to bolster its data and AI governance capabilities |
IBM, Manta Software |
|
Undisclosed |
| Sept. 25, 2023 |
AWS announces $4 billion plan to acquire minority stake in Anthropic |
Anthropic, AWS |
|
$1.25 billion (of $4 billion total) |
| July 19, 2023 |
Databricks acquires OpenAI competitor MosaicML |
Databricks, MosaicML |
|
$1.3 billion |
| July 13, 2023 |
OpenAI inks a content licensing deal with the Associated Press |
OpenAI, The Associated Press |
|
Undisclosed |
| March 14, 2023 |
AGI startup Adept raises $350 million in funding round, raising its value past $1 billion |
Adept |
|
$350 million |
| Jan. 23, 2023 |
Microsoft invests another $10 billion in OpenAI |
Microsoft, OpenAI |
|
$10 billion |
| March 4, 2022 |
Microsoft acquires Nuance for $19.7 billion |
Microsoft, Nuance |
|
$19.7 billion |
| July 22, 2019 |
Microsoft commits its first $1 billion to OpenAI |
Microsoft, OpenAI |
|
$1 billion |
|