Anthropic sets IPO price range, SoftBank completes $30 billion OpenAI investment, and more - Enterprise AI Brief #93

In this edition, covering 6 to 12 November:

• Anthropic set a proposed IPO price range of $70 to $78 for 825 million Class A shares, and TSMC approved investments of up to US$500 million each in Anthropic and OpenAI.
• SoftBank Group completed its $30 billion follow on investment in OpenAI, which brings its ownership to about 13%.
• Databricks plans to invest approximately $3 billion across Europe and the Middle East over three years, including more than $500 million in the Netherlands.

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AI notetakers that record, transcribe and summarize workplace meetings.

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Anthropic

Anthropic's amended prospectus for its Nasdaq listing sets a proposed price range of $70 to $78 for 825 million Class A shares and details a planned $26 billion private placement involving AMD, Broadcom, Google, Micron, Microsoft, Nvidia and TSMC Partners. TSMC's board approved investments of up to US$500 million each in Anthropic and OpenAI, alongside third quarter net income of NT$763.06 billion and about US$40.93 billion in capital appropriations. IPO range · TSMC

Switzerland based SoftwareOne joined the Select tier of Anthropic's Claude Partner Network Services Track, with more than 100 certified experts for Claude deployments in over 70 countries. Intuit launched Activate AI, a 30 city US tour with support from Anthropic, Google and OpenAI that teaches small and midsize businesses and finance leaders to use AI, running through November 2027. SoftwareOne · Intuit

Infor and Anthropic will let select Infor Velocity Suite customers use Claude to access manufacturing data and carry out approved actions in Infor, such as updating purchase orders and managing at risk production orders, under existing Infor permissions and user approval. Infor

OpenAI and Meta

SoftBank Group completed its planned $30 billion follow on investment in OpenAI in October 2026, bringing its cumulative commitment to $64.6 billion and its ownership to about 13%. SoftBank also reported a ¥768.0 billion net loss for the six months to 30 September, including a ¥597.2 billion loss tied to revised plans for US AI data center equipment. SoftBank

Companies can now buy ChatGPT Enterprise through AWS Marketplace with their existing AWS purchasing and billing. Parloa and OpenAI expanded their customer service partnership; Parloa joins OpenAI's Alpha Model Testing Program and plans to offer its platform through the OpenAI Marketplace. Megazone Cloud joined the OpenAI Partner Network as a Select tier partner to sell ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex and the OpenAI API to Korean businesses, and 87seconds Group, formerly Datawords Group, joined as a Select Partner for content creation and localization for global brands. AWS Marketplace · Parloa · Megazone Cloud · 87seconds

Australian law firm Gilbert + Tobin says 87% of users enabled for ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Work and Codex are active, under controls that include Australian data residency, role based access and human review. Amplitude says its Wave product agent, which uses OpenAI models, cuts the time to ship product improvements from about a month to 1 to 2 days. Gilbert + Tobin · Amplitude

OpenAI appointed Aleph as exclusive ChatGPT Ads reseller in 44 markets across Latin America, Europe and Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia-Pacific, with local contracting, billing and support. Shanghai based BlueMedia started working with ChatGPT Ads to help Chinese brands advertise in global markets. OpenAI also expanded its Daybreak security platform with Red Team for web application testing and vulnerability validation, Defense Factory for investigating flaws and preparing patches for review, and an Endor Labs integration. Aleph · BlueMedia · Daybreak

Meta is reportedly forming a sales organisation for its AI products and working with consulting firms and systems integrators to reach larger companies. Meta has not confirmed the plan. Meta

Gondola says its revenue more than doubled year over year after it adopted Codex and ChatGPT, and monthly engineering output rose 25% with no increase in engineering headcount. Gondola

Databricks

Databricks plans to invest approximately $3 billion across Europe and the Middle East over the next three years, grow its EMEA workforce by about 50% and train 500,000 people in data and AI skills by 2030. In the Netherlands it will invest more than $500 million, double its local team and expand its Amsterdam R&D hub, and it opened an 11 storey office in Amsterdam. Databricks also updated its Genie agent to run extended multistep business tasks without supervision, using an ontology of customer data, and made its Genie app for Slack generally available, with source citations and each user's existing permissions. Europe and the Middle East · Netherlands · Genie · Genie in Slack

Meeting and workplace assistants

Anthropic launched Claude Meetings, which joins Google Meet calls to create plans, timelines, answers and action items during the discussion. It also introduced Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets in beta, made Claude Data generally available and added interactive connectors for Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot. Otter.ai is adding transcription languages and a feature that keeps transcribing when speakers switch languages; 13 new languages are available now and 14 more are planned. Claude Meetings · Otter.ai

Perplexity says its Teammates agents in Computer can manage ongoing work in marketing, sales, support and operations, keep project context and use tools such as Slack and GitHub, for Perplexity Max subscribers on the web. Hops, founded by Wrike founder Andrew Filev, launched a shared AI workspace for chats, documents, slides and custom apps after early access with 2,500 teams, with billing through AI credits that customers buy. Samepage.ai released Bets, a free platform where AI agents help product teams research ideas, build software and prepare launches. Perplexity · Hops · Samepage.ai

Zoom launched AI Launchpad, which gives eligible AI startups up to $150,000 in Zoom AI Services credits for up to 12 months, without taking equity. Quiq integrated its Voice AI agent with Zoom Contact Center through the Zoom App Marketplace; the agent handles repetitive calls and passes call details to human agents. Zoom · Quiq

Microsoft and IBM

IBM and Microsoft introduced Imagine Enterprise, which combines more than 6,000 AI agents and related assets with Microsoft cloud, data and security tools for banks, insurers and retailers. Microsoft and The Ohio State University announced a five year partnership that includes a smart hospital model, moving about 70% to 80% of storage and compute to Azure, and AI tools for clinicians and researchers. Litera added Litera Compare and Firm AI Search plugins to Microsoft's Copilot for Legal, so lawyers can compare document versions and search permitted firm data. Imagine Enterprise · Ohio State · Litera

DuPont is working with Microsoft and NobleAI to speed its research, combining Microsoft Discovery, NobleAI's VIP Platform and DuPont's scientists to plan experiments and run simulations. DuPont

Healthcare

Google Cloud launched Gemini for healthcare in preview, a platform that connects clinical, administrative, billing and operational data for work such as medical record synthesis, coverage review and prior authorization. Hartford HealthCare, HCA Healthcare, Highmark Health, Northwell Health, Optum and Stanford School of Medicine are among the launch customers and contributors. AuxoAI joined as a launch partner to connect Gemini with payer and provider data and workflows. Kno2 and Microsoft will help Azure healthcare customers exchange clinical information across providers and bring it into Azure Health Data Services, Microsoft Fabric and OneLake for AI workflows built with Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio. Gemini for healthcare · AuxoAI · Kno2

OptumAI is working with California Medicaid insurer Alameda Alliance for Health to automate claims adjudication with agentic AI, starting with claims workflows. XpertDox is deploying autonomous medical coding at Camarena Health, a federally qualified health center in California's Central Valley. Basata will use AI voice agents for patient intake, referrals, insurance checks, outreach and scheduling across more than 60 Unio Specialty Care locations in California. LateralCare signed partnerships with six healthcare associations in Texas, California, Michigan, New York and Florida to widen access to its alai AI revenue cycle management platform. Optum · XpertDox · Basata · LateralCare

Cortechs.ai and Subtle Medical are integrating NeuroQuant with Subtle Medical's MRI enhancement software for faster scans and automated brain and lesion measurements. RADPAIR's agentic AI reporting will be integrated into Novarad's NovaPACS Enterprise Imaging platform, so radiologists can review images and prior studies and finalize reports in one workflow. Lyric Health is integrating VivaScore's platform, which turns data from wearables, devices, assessments and contactless scans into health scores, with its virtual care services. Ortho Molecular Products will provide exclusive onboarding for HANS, a clinical AI platform for functional and integrative medicine. Lapsi Health will add clinical policies from the American College of Emergency Physicians to Keikku Reference, its clinical decision support platform; the collaboration has no commercial terms. Cortechs.ai · RADPAIR · Lyric Health · HANS · Lapsi Health

Customer service, sales and creative tools

Zendesk introduced its Outcome AI Platform with AI service tools, Open Service Directory and Zendesk Bridge, plus plans that charge businesses for verified customer service outcomes. Salesforce made AI Skills in Agentforce Coworker generally available; users create reusable instructions for tasks such as account research, call preparation and case summaries, and record changes need approval. ViewLift, a DAZN company, added an AI agent to its streaming content management system for subscriber, billing and page building tasks, with human approval for refunds and account updates. Zendesk · Salesforce · ViewLift

The Pacific Financial Group, a Nashville asset management platform, signed a multi year agreement with Salesforce to connect Sales Cloud, Data 360 and Marketing Cloud with Contentful and Palmata for a personalized advisor website and to monitor how AI tools describe its services. Mindmatrix and Bodine and Co. are combining Mindmatrix's AI powered GTMOS go to market system with Bodine's partner experience services. Pave added WTW compensation survey data to Pave Agent and its Market Pricing tool for AI pay workflows. Pacific Financial Group · Mindmatrix · Pave

Adobe and The Walt Disney Company formed a multiyear alliance to build custom generative AI models and creative tools for Disney's parks, cruise, studio and sports development, with Adobe providing Firefly Foundry, Premiere, Photoshop and dedicated engineers. Adobe and Microsoft are optimizing Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects and Substance 3D Painter for Arm based Windows PCs, and Adobe Express templates and AI editing features will come to Microsoft Photos on Windows 11, with a Windows Insider preview from December 2026. Adobe and Disney · Adobe and Microsoft

Agent platforms and infrastructure software

Red Hat made OpenShift 5 generally available at KubeCon North America with agentic troubleshooting through Lightspeed, a built in Model Context Protocol server and post quantum cryptography controls. Kyndryl and ServiceNow put Kyndryl Autonomous Operations for ServiceNow on the ServiceNow Store, combining Kyndryl Bridge data and AI agents with the ServiceNow AI Platform. Atomicwork launched a marketplace of certified, prebuilt AI Coworkers for enterprise IT and security operations. Red Hat · Kyndryl and ServiceNow · Atomicwork

Argonos, a ChapsVision company, launched an operational AI platform built on Sinequa for regulated industries, with customers including Cummins, Blue Origin Enterprises and ExxonMobil. Reindeer made its agent platform for Gemini models available on Google Cloud Marketplace. FormAssembly rebuilt its no code platform around forms, workflow automation and compliance, adding AI agents and Model Context Protocol support. Inveniam acquired Docugami, the startup founded by XML pioneer Jean Paoli, after the two released DGML, an open source format that turns business documents into traceable data for AI agents. Argonos · Reindeer · FormAssembly · Docugami

Inferact is serving Tencent's Hy4 model in production and building native vLLM support for the open weight Hy4 Preview model. LMSYS Org launched the SGLang Consortium with NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Google, Meta, Cloudflare, Modal and RadixArk to coordinate work on the open source SGLang inference engine; SGLang maintainers keep control of technical decisions. Automattic launched Spacefast to host vibe coded apps, which puts it in competition with Lovable. Skyfall AI says its agent Steve runs three digital businesses, AlphaSocial, GammaPromo and DeltaLeads, without humans in the operating loop, and is offering a $2 million startup program. Inferact and Tencent · SGLang · Spacefast · Skyfall AI

Innovate for Bahrain, a sister company of Bahrain FinTech Bay, will distribute Shaffra's AI workforce platform to public and private organisations in Bahrain. Shaffra

IT services and consulting

Cognizant completed its acquisition of Wizeline, an AI focused digital engineering and product development firm, for undisclosed terms. It also formed a Claude Frontier Capability Group with more than 25,000 professionals, introduced a managed services model for Claude based systems in production and says more than 44,000 associates have been trained or certified on Claude. Wizeline · Claude group

Toptal launched Toptal AI with more than 200 AI related PhDs, 100 engineers and 15 product lines. Staffing firm LaSalle Network renamed itself LaSalle Intelligent Solutions and added AI advisory services in eight markets. Mastech Digital introduced a Knowledge First strategy for AI adoption and opened a Dallas office. Toptal · LaSalle · Mastech Digital

Iternal Technologies launched AI Blueprint Builder, which interviews clients and produces strategy, architecture, return on investment and governance material for consulting firms to rebrand; it says more than 160 partners adopted it in early release. Secur-Serv launched Managed Intelligence Services for AI strategy, governance, security and spending at financial institutions and midmarket businesses. The AI Adoption Institute started peer circles and a Return on AI scorecard for midsize companies. Iternal · Secur-Serv · AI Adoption Institute

Cole Haan completed an SAP S/4HANA move across North America, Europe and Asia in 18 months, with Applexus using its AI powered CeleRITE migration platform to replace a 20 year old SAP AFS system. Cole Haan

Managed service providers at the Canalys Forum Americas in Scottsdale said they use AI for routine IT support, with smaller teams and lower customer prices; Focus Technology cut 12% of its headcount and CSDNet reduced its back end support team. MSPs

Data labelling companies

Innodata reported third quarter revenue of $95.6 million, up 53%, and raised its 2026 revenue growth guidance to 42% or more. Sama, which did content moderation for Meta and data labelling for OpenAI, is winding down and liquidating its assets, according to a 6 November letter to creditors reviewed by TIME; an unaudited balance sheet shows about $1 million in assets and $17 million in liabilities. Labelbox is partnering with Wipro on AI agents that learn from workflows and reviewed work, and Wipro Ventures took part in Labelbox's Series E. Innodata · Sama · Labelbox and Wipro

Surveys and forecasts

Omdia forecasts global AI software revenue will exceed $200 billion in 2026, twice the 2024 level, and grow 30% a year from 2025 to 2031. Gartner forecasts total AI spending of $4 trillion in 2027, with AI infrastructure at $2.4 trillion, or 59% of the total, up 53% from 2026. Kyndryl's Readiness Report of 3,700 leaders found 64% of organisations reported positive returns from AI, up 10 percentage points from 2025, while 66% of CIOs said their infrastructure needs significant rearchitecture. Experis found 66% of 1,930 technology leaders are increasing AI investment and 9% report full integration. Omdia · Gartner forecast · Kyndryl · Experis

A Boston Consulting Group report with Makati Business Club finds Philippine companies nearly two years behind the global AI maturity curve, with 60% of 35 surveyed organizations in early adoption. Lloyd's Register expanded its Digital Maturity Index so shipowners and operators can assess AI readiness, with use cases such as crew management and LNG cargo risk monitoring. At its IT Symposium/Xpo in Barcelona, Gartner said AI risk is growing faster than AI value for many organisations and advised CIOs to set up a central decision authority. BCG · Lloyd's Register · Gartner

Indeed data says 70% of job seekers use generative AI tools to research employers, and about 40% of the sources cited for company culture come from Glassdoor and Indeed. TalentNeuron and CodeSignal expanded their partnership to combine labor market data with validated skills assessments. Australia's Fair Work Commission ordered LVL80 to pay $17,861 to a contracts administrator whose job the company partly said AI tools could do; it accepted the role was no longer needed but found the dismissal unfair because a vacant sales role was a reasonable redeployment option. Indeed · TalentNeuron · Fair Work Commission

Telecom

GSMA, ETSI, IEEE and ITU opened two AI challenges for telecom standards retrieval and radio access network engineering, with €25,000 and €30,000 prize pools. GSMA MWC26 Doha opened on 10 November with calls for global standards and wider connectivity across the Middle East and North Africa, and GSMA forecasts the region's mobile economy will contribute $470 billion by 2030. Nokia forecasts AI will account for 44% of global network traffic by 2035. GSMA challenges · MWC26 Doha · Nokia

Orange France will launch new Orange and Sosh apps on 19 November with free access to Claude, Gemini, Mistral and GPT, and an Orange IAs Plus subscription for 10 euros per month. Vodacom plans to build AI data centres in Egypt, South Africa, Kenya and other African markets with partners, and already works with Cassava Technologies and ElSewedy Electric on a centre in Egypt. Rakuten and AST SpaceMobile will form Rakuten AST for a Japanese direct to device network using low Earth orbit satellites, with domestic service planned for early 2029. Australia's TPG Telecom is developing AI agents that customers could trigger to diagnose and fix service issues; the agents now help contact centre staff, and TPG reports a 40 percent drop in churn among some customer groups. Orange · Vodacom · Rakuten AST · TPG Telecom

RADCOM reported third quarter revenue of $14.0 million, down 23.6% year over year, returned to non GAAP operating profit and was selected by VNPT and CETIN Networks for AI based network assurance. VIAVI joined Blackpool Council's ORBIT consortium to plan and test a private 5G Open RAN network across the town's trams and buses. Cyient will offer 3-GIS network management software with its engineering and managed services. RADCOM · VIAVI · Cyient

AI infrastructure and research

The Danish Centre for AI Innovation, which operates the Gefion supercomputer, will receive DKK 500 million from Netcompany, EIFO and the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Netcompany invests DKK 325 million and EIFO DKK 150 million, and the foundation keeps a 52.6% majority stake. GS Group and POSCO signed a memorandum of understanding on building and operating large AI data centers. Runpod named Japan's RUTILEA its exclusive Japanese partner for sourcing and onboarding data center capacity. Gefion · GS and POSCO · Runpod

Quantinuum and RIKEN expanded their partnership after upgrading the Reimei quantum computer to Quantinuum's H2 system, and will work with SoftBank on links between quantum computers and AI data centers in Japan. Atos and Inria will collaborate on physical AI, agentic AI, robotics, cybersecurity and digital twins. Hong Kong based BioMap announced collaborations with 11 organisations in AI life sciences, including the University of Hong Kong, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Harbour BioMed and Revvity. Quantinuum and RIKEN · Atos and Inria · BioMap

Investors

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's departure, with CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO, has raised uncertainty over NVIDIA's planned investments in South Korean AI startups Upstage, Motif Technologies and RLWRLD, Chosun Ilbo reports. Norwest raised a $4 billion fund, its largest, with a focus on AI startups. Erie Insurance's venture arm invested in Blitzy, which modernises enterprise codebases with AI, and HiddenLayer, which secures AI systems. NVIDIA and Korea · Norwest · Erie

Security and risk

Kihan introduced Constitutional Computing, which verifies cryptographic permits before AI agents take consequential actions, with evaluations of its first product, Inktomi, planned for December 2026. RemoteThreat and Hack The Box will build evaluations of AI agents and human operators on cyber ranges. Miggo Security joined the Wiz Integration Network to turn Wiz findings into vulnerability specific WAF rules. Argos Risk and ThirdPartyIQ are building continuous monitoring of third party risk, with first financial institution users expected in early Q4 2026. Kihan · RemoteThreat · Miggo · Argos Risk

Small business and finance software

SimpleDocs launched SimpleDocs 360, a contract lifecycle management platform with AI drafting and review, workflows, approvals and renewal tracking. Cledara launched an agent that matches software invoices, manages user access and flags unused seats across more than 8,000 tools. Findity and Suiteify launched Suiteify Expense & Travel in Germany. OneStream says it has more than 600 EMEA customers and that EMEA use of its Finance AI has more than tripled since the end of 2025. SimpleDocs · Cledara · Findity · OneStream

Bluehost launched AI Builder, which lets small businesses create websites and business applications through conversation without coding. ZenBusiness added Velo AI tools for business plans, market analysis, grant finding and launch announcements. Bluehost · ZenBusiness

Worker.ai acquired DeltaGen, whose voice technology captures decisions and commitments, and launched an operating system for small businesses that turns them into tasks for employees and AI workers. Canadian insurer Definity will enable Guidewire's ProNavigator AI assistant in its Vyne broker platform. AlphaPai launched its AI investment research platform for global markets at Hong Kong FinTech Week. Worker.ai · Definity · AlphaPai

Also

Trimble added AI capabilities to its Trimble Connect construction platform, including Trimble Assist and Agent Studio. Routeware launched Pulse, an AI data and analytics platform for waste and recycling operators. StandardFlow released an AI platform that checks engineering documents against technical standards, starting with additive manufacturing. Trimble · Routeware · StandardFlow

SONIFI deployed its AI assisted SONIFI Central platform across more than 5,000 hotels. Mews joined Preferred Hotels & Resorts' Alliance Partner Program, which gives the group's more than 650 independent hotels access to its AI operating system at preferential pricing. Otter Property Management moved about 750 rentals to Rentvine's platform for its AI tools and maintenance workflows. INVE Technologies will deploy Trackonomy's physical AI platform across the software businesses it has acquired. SONIFI · Mews · Rentvine · INVE and Trackonomy

Contact lens maker Interojo cut daily production planning from about two hours to 10 minutes with VMS Solutions' MOZART 3.0. Interojo