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 […]
A Letter to Our Community from Peter Wang, Co-Founder of Anaconda
Dear Anaconda Community, I want to address you directly regarding the changes and growth Anaconda has experienced and the updated Terms of Service (ToS) changes we’re implementing. But first, I owe you – our valued community members – an acknowledgment. Last year, eager to continue iterating on our offerings and keep up with our growing […]
Anaconda Assistant for conda now in Private Beta
You may already be familiar with the Anaconda Assistant, the AI coding assistant from Anaconda Toolbox, available on https://nb.anaconda.cloud and locally using Anaconda Navigator. Today we are pleased to bring our AI-powered assistant to all conda users with the anaconda-assistant-conda plugin. This private beta release of Anaconda Assistant for conda summarizes the error message with […]
Gratitude and Growth: Reflecting on 2023 and Embracing the Promise of 2024
As the holiday season draws near, we at Anaconda take a moment to reflect on the past year with profound gratitude and look ahead to 2024 with excitement and anticipation. 2023 marked a year of significant achievements for us. We’ve enriched our product suite with innovative enhancements in Anaconda Pro, Anaconda Business, and our Data […]
Sustaining and Advancing Jupyter: NbClassic 1.3 and Jupyter-Fsspec 0.4
In today’s AI landscape, accessible and powerful tools can define anyone’s ability to learn, innovate, and deliver value whether you’re a student, independent researcher, or part of a large enterprise. As part of Anaconda’s ongoing commitment to open source software investment, which we highlighted in our recent blog post, we’ve continued enhancing Jupyter capabilities that […]