Microsoft bets $2.5B on AI deployment

Plus: Anthropic keeps its scariest model locked away

July 03, 2026

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Big money and big model news collide today: Microsoft commits $2.5B to a new enterprise AI deployment arm, Together AI's valuation jumps to $8.3B, and Anthropic ships Opus 4.7 while keeping its most dangerous model locked behind a vetted-partner program. Meanwhile, a UN scientific panel says safety research still can't keep pace with what these systems can do.

Today's Top Stories

Microsoft launches $2.5B enterprise AI deployment company
Microsoft unveiled Microsoft Frontier Company, a new operating business backed by $2.5B and 6,000 engineers focused purely on getting enterprise AI deployments to actually work. It follows similar forward-deployed-engineering bets from AWS ($1B) and joint ventures from OpenAI and Anthropic — early partners include London Stock Exchange Group, Unilever, and Accenture.
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Together AI raises $800M Series C at $8.3B valuation
Together AI closed an $800M round led by Aramco Ventures, with NVIDIA and General Catalyst also participating — up from a $3.3B valuation just a year ago. The company says its annualized run rate recently topped $1.1B and it has secured over 500 megawatts of dedicated compute to keep scaling its open-source model cloud.
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Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.7, keeps its most powerful model gated
Opus 4.7 is now live across Anthropic's API, major clouds, and GitHub Copilot at unchanged pricing ($5/$25 per million tokens). The bigger story: Anthropic continues to withhold "Claude Mythos," a frontier system it says can autonomously find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities, restricting it to roughly 40 vetted enterprise and government partners.
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Kling AI raises $2B as Kuaishou spins off its video AI unit
Chinese video-generation platform Kling AI pulled in an initial $2B round (with reports the total could reach $3B), valuing the company at roughly $18B as parent Kuaishou preps a 2027 IPO. It's part of a broader wave of large domestic rounds for Chinese AI firms as Beijing pushes to keep its champions funded at home.
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UN scientific panel: AI capabilities are outpacing safety science
A 40-scientist UN panel co-chaired by Yoshua Bengio concluded that science currently cannot guarantee AI won't cause catastrophic harm as capabilities keep advancing. The same day, global leaders launched the "AI for Good Global Commission," co-chaired by Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, to address AI governance.
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