Anthropic $200M Deal, Rimac Autonomous Fleet, Google Workspace Studio & VC Jake Paul?
This Week in AI Newsletter: 12/4/2025
Google released Workspace Studio to help create agents in minutes to automate everyday work in plain language using Gemini 3. You can use it over Gmail, Calendar, Docs and more; Demo coming soon! Get started.
Jensen Huang said on the Joe Rogan Experience that when he first launched Nvidia, nobody wanted to buy it except Elon Musk at OpenAI. He also doubted OpenAI could afford it at the time because the organization was a non-profit. Full video below.
Snowflake and Anthropic are expanding an existing partnership with a new multi-year, $200M deal that makes Anthropic’s Claude models available to Snowflake’s 12,600+ customers across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. They’re also teaming up to help big companies use AI “agents” to find answers and run multi-step work using data that is already stored in Snowflake. More here.
Rimac, the Croatian company that develops the Rimac Nevera hypercar, just unveiled its first robotaxi prototype fleet. Initial service is planned for Croatia in 2026. The two-seat Level 4 EV is loaded with cameras/radar/LiDAR, a huge 43” display, and 17 speakers, and Rimac says it has launch agreements in 11 cities across the EU, UK, and Middle East. More here.
Amazon is offering qualified early-stage, VC-backed startups a free year of Kiro Pro+ credits for up to 100 users. The deal comes with eligibility and country restrictions, and applications are due by December 31. More here.
Meta’s move to restrict WhatsApp’s Business API so only its own Meta AI can be distributed is drawing scrutiny from EU competition regulators. The European Commission has opened an investigation, arguing the policy could block rival AI chatbots from reaching users across the Europe and potentially lead to significant penalties for Meta if violations are found. More here.
Jake Paul’s Anti Fund just closed an oversubscribed $30M venture fund and appointed his brother Logan Paul as a new General Partner. The fund’s portfolio already includes names like OpenAI, Anduril, Ramp, Cognition, and Physical Intelligence. More here.
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The Snowflake-Anthropic partnership spanning all major clouds is brilliant positioning. By making Claude nativley available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, they're removing friction for enterprises already locked into specific cloud vendors. Its intresting how this multi-cloud strategy could accelerate Claude adoption faster than vendor-exclusive models since companies wont need to migrate their data warehouses just to acess better AI.