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software platform

American  

noun

  1. a major piece of software, as an operating system, an operating environment, or a database, under which various smaller application programs can be designed to run.


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The French firm offers a software platform with autonomous AI agents to which users can delegate tasks, able to aggregate large quantites of data from varying sources.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

“Our early checks point to sustained momentum in the U.S. and we are growing in our optimism that Foundry will emerge as one of the dominant software platform in enterprise software,” analysts write.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

Big Bots: OpenAI’s former chief research officer is raising $70 million for a new startup building an AI and software platform to automate manufacturing, according to people familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

As OpenAI matures, she anticipates it will inevitably build an in-house advertising software platform to capture the spending that currently goes to third parties, Trade Desk included.

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026

Even powerful vendors such as Microsoft rely on the support of third-party software developers whose tools, programs, and computer games make an underlying software platform such as Windows more attractive to the mainstream consumer.

From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Williams, Sam

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