The technology industry is making AI more accessible. From empowering educators to revolutionizing shopping and healthcare, AI is a powerful tool for businesses and consumers alike. Companies are expanding AI’s reach — driving smarter, more efficient solutions across the globe. Explore how tech is making AI more accessible in this week’s Tech at Work.

How Tech is Making AI More Accessible

Amazon is making it easier for developers and tech enthusiasts to explore its advanced Gen AI models.

Anthropic introduced Claude for Education to ensure educators and students play a key role in actively shaping AI.

Apple is expanding the capabilities of Apple Intelligence to include new languages and regions, such as French, German, Italian, and localized English.

Cisco shared how service providers and hyperscalers must rethink their architectures to deliver resilient connectivity for AI.

Cohere created North, its all-in-one, secure AI workspace platform that empowers employees to significantly improve the quality and speed of their work.

ElevenLabs’ conversational AI meets HIPAA compliance, delivering secure, efficient patient interactions and robust data protection for healthcare providers.

Google shared how it’s responsibly building products and platforms to bring AI to billions of people across the world.

Instacart introduced Smart Shop, which uses AI to personalize users’ shopping experience.

Mastercard discussed how AI is transforming shopping, focusing on the retail and consumer experience.

Meta celebrated one billion downloads of Llama, its open source collection of AI models.

OpenAI released 4o Image Generation, which is unlocking useful image generation with a natively multimodal model.

Salesforce highlighted CodeGenie, an AI agent built to boost developer productivity, introducing a new era in code and collaboration.

Samsara spotlighted how thousands of construction companies have standardized on their Connected Operations Platform to operate smarter with AI.

SAP and NVIDIA are working together to deliver more advanced AI capabilities to businesses worldwide.

Scale AI updated its Outlier program to better empower its contributors who are helping build the foundation for some of today’s most advanced AI models.

Zoom debuted new agentic AI skills and agents for Zoom AI Companion, enhancing productivity and collaboration at work.

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