{"id":610627,"date":"2026-04-17T17:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/610627\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:10:15","slug":"stellantis-microsoft-sign-5-year-partnership-for-ai-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/610627\/","title":{"rendered":"Stellantis, Microsoft sign 5-year partnership for AI push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Stellantis and Microsoft said on Thursday they agreed to \u200ca five-year strategic partnership to co-develop artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity and engineering capabilities, as the automaker races to keep pace with technology-focused rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Software and data-driven services have become central in the automotive companies&#8217; long-term strategies, \u200bespecially as Chinese automakers accelerate their development of features \u200bto entice customers domestically and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Legacy automakers, which have often struggled to master software and tech efforts on their own, are increasingly \u200blooking to partner with tech companies to leverage their expertise and\u00a0speed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through \u2060our collaboration with \u2060Microsoft, we are accelerating our AI momentum \u200cacross the enterprise,&#8221; Stellantis Chief Engineering and Technology Officer Ned Curic said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p>No financial details of the deal were provided.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A view shows the Microsoft logo on the day of the Hannover Messe, one of the world's largest industrial trade fairs with this year's partner country being Canada, as both Canada and the European Union face new U.S. tariffs, in Hanover, Germany.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776445815_627_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7777777777777777\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>The deal is centred around co-developing more than 100 AI initiatives at Stellantis. (Fabian Bimmer\/Reuters)<\/p>\n<p>Stellantis has relied on tech partnerships to support its software ambitions and provide more \u2060personalized experiences for drivers, although it has ditched some of those efforts as it now\u00a0focuses on improving its core vehicle sales and quality.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported last year that \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/windsor\/amazon-in-car-software-deal-stellantis-fizzles-1.7545690\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stellantis&#8217; in-car software deal with Amazon was winding down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Stellantis-Microsoft tie-up builds on an existing relationship between the two groups, which have previously worked together on connected vehicle platforms and in-car digital services.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, joint teams will \u200bco-develop more than 100 AI initiatives covering areas including product development and validation, predictive maintenance and testing, and \u2060the\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>faster rollout of digital features and services, the two groups said.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership will \u2060also see the Jeep and Peugeot maker strengthen its global cyber defense center \u2060using \u2060AI-driven analytics to help prevent cyber \u200bthreats and protect vehicles, customer data and operations worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The cyber defense center will span \u200bIT systems, connected vehicles, manufacturing \u2060sites and digital products, embedding security functions across mobile apps and in-vehicle services.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the collaboration, Stellantis will accelerate the modernization of its IT infrastructure on Microsoft&#8217;s Azure cloud platform, targeting a 60 per cent reduction in its data centre footprint by 2029.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-610627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}