Fundamental AWS AI Partnership

What happened

AI venture Fundamental, now valued at $1.2bn, partnered with AWS to sell its AI model. This model is designed to interpret petabytes of tabular data residing in company databases. This arrangement introduces a new channel for organisations to access advanced AI capabilities for large-scale data interpretation, shifting the delivery mechanism for such services to a cloud-based platform.

Why it matters

This partnership introduces a new dependency on a third-party cloud provider for critical data interpretation capabilities. It increases the oversight burden for procurement and IT security teams, who must now evaluate the security and compliance implications of processing petabytes of sensitive tabular data through an external AI model hosted on AWS. This also creates a potential visibility gap regarding data handling practices within the cloud environment.