Building AI-Powered Financial Services: Your Strategic Guide to Modern Tools and Platforms
The financial services landscape is experiencing an unprecedented transformation. By the end of 2025, most financial institutions will likely rely on AI to stay competitive, with 75% of banks with over $100 billion in assets expected to have fully integrated AI strategies. Yet beneath this momentum lies a complex web of challenges that directors of […]
Intel Mac Package Support: End of an Era
As Apple completes its transition to Apple Silicon and the broader Python ecosystem evolves, Anaconda is announcing the deprecation of Intel Mac (osx-64) package builds, effective August 15, 2025. What’s Changing Starting August 15, 2025, Anaconda will stop building new packages for Intel Mac computers (osx-64). This change affects users who are currently using Intel […]
Using Anaconda without Worry: Enabling ToS compliance with the conda-anaconda-tos plugin
Accepting the ToS in continuous integration (CI) environments:Â If you encounter prompts in your CI environment, you can set the CONDA_PLUGINS_AUTO_ACCEPT_TOS environment variable to “yes” to accept the Terms of Service automatically and continue your builds without interruption. As one of Anaconda’s millions of users, naturally you want to know when you’re using open source with […]
Anaconda Recognized for Excellence in AI Innovation​
We’re thrilled to share that Anaconda has been named a winner in the 2025 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards! The Business Intelligence Group has recognized our platform in the Human-machine interaction – Product category, highlighting our commitment to innovation in the AI space. Democratizing AI Through Open Source At Anaconda, we’ve always believed that the power of AI should […]
Tiny Giants in AI: Benchmarking Specialized SQL Models Against Industry Heavyweights
In an era where massive language models dominate headlines, a fascinating trend is emerging: highly specialized smaller models are proving surprisingly capable. But just how capable are they? At Anaconda, we’re committed to helping data scientists and engineers find the right tools for each job. As part of our broader mission to empower data practitioners with […]
Introducing the Anaconda Community Channel: Expanding Your Open Source Arsenal While Maintaining Enterprise Control
Recently, we launched the Community Channel—a new addition to the Anaconda AI Platform that expands your organization’s access to more open source packages while preserving the governance and security controls your organization depends on. The Foundation: Anaconda’s Trusted Distribution For over a decade, Anaconda has hosted the world’s most trusted distribution of conda packages, serving […]
The Shadow AI Crisis: Why Enterprise Governance Can’t Wait Any Longer
Survival instinct is driving AI application development at unprecedented rates. As major firms like PwC cut 1,500 jobs while pouring billions into AI platforms, employees aren’t sitting around waiting for IT approval. They’re building custom Python tools, personal copilots, and automated workflows that live completely outside official channels. The numbers tell a story that should make every security […]
New Release: Anaconda Distribution 2025.06
We are excited to announce the 2025.06 release of the Anaconda Distribution installer, which includes: Python – the most widely used programming language for AI, data science and machine learning conda – the open-source, cross-platform package and environment manager Anaconda Navigator – our desktop application, built on conda, that enables you to launch notebooks and development applications […]
How Anaconda and Databricks Are Solving Enterprise AI’s Biggest Open-Source Challenge
AI is moving fast, but enterprise adoption often gets stuck in the same old bottlenecks: dependency hell, ungoverned open-source packages, and compliance risks that slow down innovation. For many organizations, deploying secure, reproducible, and scalable AI models in production is still a major challenge. With billions invested in AI platforms, organizations can’t afford to let […]
Introducing anaconda-auth – An Easier Way To Access Anaconda’s Premium Repo And Your Organization’s Internal Channels
Introduction Simplify your access to premium repositories with Anaconda’s new CLI-based token management workflow. We’ve completely reimagined how Business Tier customers interact with the Anaconda Premium repositories and your organization’s hosted channels within the Anaconda AI Platform. The streamlined token management allows both administrators and practitioners to access critical resources with fewer steps and greater […]