Anaconda Unlocks AI for the Enterprise with Comprehensive AI Development Suite

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 20, 2025--

Anaconda Inc., the leader in advancing AI with open source, today launched AI Catalyst, an enterprise AI development suite within the Anaconda Platform, powered by AWS, that will deliver an end-to-end ecosystem for building, deploying, and governing AI applications. Available now for AWS customers, enterprises benefit from transparent, governed, and optimized AI development at scale. AI Catalyst launches with a curated model catalog of secure, vetted AI models to enable organizations to discover, select, test, compare, and run models in their own environment, reducing unknown risks and improving governance and cost efficiency.

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With nearly all modern applications now built on open source, there is a growing gap between open-source innovation and enterprise security requirements. While developers want to build quickly, lengthy security, compliance, and legal reviews delay adoption. Even when those reviews are completed, security vulnerabilities, licensing issues, and performance problems inevitably emerge. As a result, development teams are at the mercy of security and compliance reviews and end up sinking time and resources into infrastructure setup and model optimization instead of building applications, stretching AI deployment timelines to weeks or months.

Anaconda AI Catalyst unlocks enterprise AI development, starting with models – curated, open-source models that come with a robust AI Bill of Materials and comprehensive risk profiles for transparency and audit-ready oversight. Its controlled inference stack reduces third-party vulnerabilities, while dynamic evaluations identify model-specific risks like prompt injection attacks before they impact production. Model functionality supports local, cloud development or production integrations that can run on CPU or GPU, ensuring developers have flexibility when it comes to model deployment within their organization’s secure infrastructure. Optimized and benchmarked for enterprise use cases, these models save weeks of manual research and testing, enabling teams to move faster from prototype to production. Together, these capabilities allow enterprises to innovate with confidence, control, and speed.

“Enterprises don’t want just AI models – they want an end-to-end platform where they can confidently build, deploy, and govern AI applications,” said Laura Sellers, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Anaconda. “With AI Catalyst, we're committed to setting a new standard for enterprise AI development by bringing Anaconda's curated, secure open-source ecosystem together with the scale and governance of our customer's own Amazon VPC. This is designed to eliminate weeks of manual model evaluation and dependency management, helping to ensure consistent security from experimentation through production and empowering teams to turn open source models into breakthrough AI applications and business outcomes faster.”

With AI Catalyst, enterprises can take advantage of:

Along with AI Catalyst, Anaconda announced two additional new capabilities within its Platform. Offered through Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, customers can now choose a self-hosted cloud implementation of the Anaconda Platform, which enables enterprises to operate a complete platform within their own secure, controlled environments on Amazon Web Services (AWS), preserving existing security postures and network boundaries. Anaconda also announced unified search functionality and expanded model access capabilities. The unified search provides users with a fast, intuitive discovery experience across all Anaconda products, eliminating context switching so developers can spend more time building and less time searching for resources. Additionally, users can now access AI Catalyst models through multiple deployment options: deploy to AWS cloud for GPU-enabled autoscaling endpoints, access via a CLI, or download locally with Anaconda Desktop for on-device inference, giving teams the flexibility to run models wherever their workflows demand .

"At Sutherland Global, we're transforming how we serve clients across financial services, healthcare, and telecommunications by integrating AI into our operations,” said Dr. Iman Karimi, Global Head of Data Science at Sutherland Global. “Anaconda gives our data teams a trusted foundation to develop and deploy AI responsibly. We get the speed and flexibility to innovate while maintaining the enterprise security our business demands, allowing us to move confidently from experimentation to production."

To explore AI Catalyst capabilities and learn more about Anaconda’s evolving role in the data science and AI ecosystem, visit anaconda.com/ai-catalyst or find us at AWS re:Invent (Booth #1327).

About Anaconda

Anaconda is built to advance AI with open source at scale, giving builders and organizations the confidence to increase productivity, and save time, spend and risk associated with open source. 95% of the Fortune 500 including Panasonic, AmTrust, Booz Allen Hamilton and over 50 million users rely on the value The Anaconda Platform delivers through a centralized approach to sourcing, securing, building, and deploying AI. With 21 billion downloads and growing, Anaconda has established itself as the gold standard for Python, data science, and AI and the enterprise-ready solution of choice for AI innovation. Anaconda is available across hybrid AI environments and cloud platforms such as AWS, Databricks, Snowflake and more with backing from world-class investors including Insight Partners. Learn more at https://www.anaconda.com.

Anaconda launches AI Catalyst, powered by AWS, with models to speed development while delivering cost efficiencies and policy controls for building and managing AI systems.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is not immune from civil claims that he incited a mob of his supporters to attack the Capitol on Jan, 6, 2021, a federal judge has ruled in one of the last unresolved legal cases stemming from the riot.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled Tuesday that Trump's remarks at his “Stop the Steal” rally, held on the Ellipse near the White House shortly before the siege began, “plausibly” were inciting words that are not protected by the First Amendment right to free speech.

The Republican president is not shielded from liability for much of his Jan. 6 conduct, including that speech and many of his social media posts that day, according to the judge. But Mehta said Trump cannot be held liable for his official acts that day, including his Rose Garden remarks during the riot and his interactions with Justice Department officials.

“President Trump has not shown that the Speech reasonably can be understood as falling within the outer perimeter of his Presidential duties,” Mehta wrote. “The content of the Ellipse Speech confirms that it is not covered by official-acts immunity."

The decision is not the court's first ruling that Trump can be held liable for the violence at the Capitol and it is unlikely to be the last given the near-certainty of an appeal. But the 79-page ruling sets the stage for a possible civil trial in the same courthouse where Trump was charged with crimes for his Jan. 6 conduct, before his 2024 election ended the prosecution.

Mehta previously refused to dismiss the claims against Trump in a February 2022 ruling that Trump was not entitled to presidential immunity from the claims brought by Democratic members of Congress and law enforcement officers who guarded the Capitol on Jan. 6. In that decision, Mehta also concluded that Trump’s words during his rally speech plausibly amounted to incitement and were not protected by the First Amendment.

The case returned to Mehta after an appeals court ruling upheld his 2022 decision. He said Tuesday's ruling on immunity falls under a more "rigorous" legal standard at this later stage in the litigation.

Mehta, who was nominated by Democratic President Barack Obama, said his latest decision is not a “final pronouncement on immunity for any particular act.”

“President Trump remains free to reassert official-acts immunity as a defense at trial. But the burden will remain his and will be subject to a higher standard of proof,” the judge wrote.

Trump spoke to a crowd of his supporters at the rally before the mob’s attack disrupted the joint session of Congress for certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory over Trump. Trump closed out his speech by saying, “We fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”

Trump’s lawyers argued that Trump's conduct on Jan. 6 meets the threshold for presidential immunity.

The plaintiffs contended that Trump cannot prove he was acting entirely in his official capacity rather than as an office-seeking private individual. They also said the Supreme Court has held that office-seeking conduct falls outside the scope of presidential immunity.

Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., who at that time led the House Homeland Security Committee, sued Trump, Trump's personal attorney Rudolph Giuliani and members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers extremist groups over the Jan. 6 riot. Other Democratic members of Congress later joined the litigation, which was consolidated with the officers' claims.

The civil claims survived Trump’s sweeping act of clemency on the first day of his second term, when he pardoned, commuted prison sentences and ordered the dismissal of all 1,500-plus criminal cases stemming from the Capitol siege. More than 100 police officers were injured while defending the Capitol from rioters.

The plaintiffs' legal team includes attorneys from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Damon Hewitt, the group's president and executive director, praised the ruling as a “monumental victory for the rule of law, affirming that no one, including the president of the United States, is above it.”

“The court rightly recognizes that President Trump’s actions leading to the January 6 insurrection fell outside the scope of presidential duties," Hewitt said in a statement. “This ruling is an important step toward accountability for the violent attack on the Capitol and our democracy.”

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One en route from West Palm Beach, Fla., to Joint Base Andrews, Md., Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)