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We have 16 generative AI news stories from the first two weeks in February. The evolution of assistants topped the news with ChatGPT, Gemini (aka Google Bard), and Hugging Chat. We break that down in depth and how memory and how generative AI personal assistants are attempting to fill in the gaps where their predecessors fell short. There is more funding news, and a number of new products from Slack, AirBnB, and Otter. We talk about smart glasses, a new product in the category that is not from Apple, and the unglorious history of the category. And, we also do a breakdown of the new USPTO guidelines on AI-assistant patent applications. Generative AI News Top Stories of the Week 🔦 OpenAI is Testing a Memory Feature with ChatGPT OpenAI Gives ChatGPT a Customizable Memory Bard Becomes Gemini, Ultra is Here, and Other Ways Google is Mirroring OpenAI's Strategy Google Bard (and Duet and Assistant Mobile App) No More – Gemini Now The Star of Generative AI Show Google Warns Gemini Users Automatically Saves Conversations Hugging Face Introduces Assistants (GPTs) for HuggingChat Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 Frame Smart Glasses from Brilliant Labs Are a Vehicle for an Always-There AI Assistant Slack New Generative AI Features Help Navigate Endless Message Flood Otter Invites Generative AI to Your Conference Room With New ‘Meeting GenAI’ Chatbot and Tools Airbnb CEO Hints at Generative AI Plans Around Acquisition of Adam Cheyer-Founded Startup GamePlanner.AI Bumble Adds Generative AI Scam and Catfish Detective to Dating App Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️ Generative AI Video Platform Colossyan Raises $22M Jua AI Raises $16M for Climate and Weather Generative AI Model Clinical Generative AI Startup Ambience Healthcare Raises $70M Generative AI in the World 🌎 Deepfake of Jailed Pakistani Ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan Declares Victory in Election No! An AI Cannot Be a Patent Inventor. However, USPTO Adds an Important Caveat More About GAIN GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube, LinkedIn, and X on Thursdays or Fridays. You can re-watch each week’s discussion on Voicebot’s YouTube channel.

Here are fifteen generative AI news stories from the past week. Links to the articles are below, or you can watch the GAIN Rundown via YouTube above. Deepfakes and momentum by Microsoft topped the news this week, while positive moves by Google may have gone unnoticed. Plus, we have another deep dive into new retail-oriented solutions, new funding rounds, and more. Generative AI News Top Stories of the Week 🔦 Sex and Politics: Deepfakes Make a Big Splash to Kick Off 2024 Microsoft Azure AI Users Base Rose by 50%, Half of Fortune 500 Adopt OpenAI Service Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 Google Chrome Embeds Generative AI to Write Text, Organize Tabs, and Design Browser Experience OpenAI is Rolling Out ‘GPT Mentions’ in ChatGPT to Invoke Custom GPTs Meta’s New Code Llama 70B Rivals GitHub Copilot for Generative AI Programming Models IBM’s Generative AI Will Scout Soccer Players for Sevilla FC Brave Installs Mistral’s Mixtral as Default LLM for Generative AI Browser Assistant Leo Google Bard Gets Gemini Pro in 40 Languages and Hits #2 on Popular Benchmark Leaderboard Google Adds Imagen2 and GeminiPro To Bard Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️ Indian Generative AI Startup Krutrim Raises $50M to Hit $1B Valuation Kore ai Raises $150M to Scale Enterprise Generative AI Platform Generative AI in Retail & Commerce 🛒 Shopify Expands Generative AI Features with Synthetic Image Editor for Product Backgrounds and More Yelp Rolls Out Generative AI Features to Summarize Business Reviews Etsy Launches Generative AI ‘Gift Mode’ to Suggest Personalized Presents Generative AI in the World 🌎 Washington State Issues Generative AI Ethics Guidelines More About GAIN GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube, LinkedIn, and X on Thursdays or Fridays. You can re-watch each week’s discussion on Voicebot’s YouTube channel.

We have sixteen generative AI news stories again for you this week on the Generative AI News Rundown (GAIN). Watch the video discussion above or click the links below to read the news. ChatGPT went to college this week as Arizona State University announced a partnership with OpenAI, while Washington State adopts new generative AI guidelines encouraging public school systems to “embrace AI.” Those two stories reflect a very different attitude from what the rise of generative AI faced in education circles in early 2023. Beyond that, we have a spotlight on Google relating to a new study showing a decline in search results quality and a thesis from Michael Spencer at AI Supremacy about the company’s last moonshot attempt. Plus, the U.S. FTC is conducting an inquiry into generative AI competition, we have some new funding announcements, and a few product updates. Enjoy! Generative AI News Top Stories of the Week 🔦 ChatGPT Goes to College -- ASU Embraces Generative AI But Won't Pay $100M The State of Washington Embraces AI for Public Schools Google Showcases New Generative AI Education Tools US antitrust inquiry targets OpenAI and Anthropic's deals with Big Tech Study Shows Decline in Google Search Quality and Reveals Path for Generative AI Adoption Google's Last and Final Moonshot is AGI Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 Google Chrome Embeds Generative AI to Write Text, Organize Tabs, and Design Browser Experience Google's Lumiere Shows More Momentum in AI Text-to-Video Innovation New Nightshade Tool Makes Art into ‘Poison’ for Generative AI Image Engines OpenAI Signs Up 260 Businesses for Corporate Version of ChatGPT Rabbit R1 Generative AI Device Taps Perplexity for Real-Time Answers Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️ ElevenLabs Closes $80M in New Funding and Releases New Voice Library for VO Artists Legal Generative AI Assistant Spellbook Raises $20M Generative AI in Retail & QSR 🛒 Amazon Pharmacy Embeds Generative AI Models to Enhance Medication Distribution and Stocking SoundHound’s Voice AI Starts Taking Phone Orders at 50 Jersey Mike’s Subs Generative AI in the World 🌎 OpenAI Bans Custom GPT Dean.bot for Violating Political Generative AI Chatbot Rules

Sixteen generative AI news stories from the past weeks were on the agenda for this week’s edition of GAIN. You can watch the video discussion above or click the links below to read the news. Meta, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, ByteDance, Anthropic, Amazon, Walmart, McKinsey, 1x, Will.i.am, and more all had news this week. Eric Schwartz, head writer of Voicebot.ai, joined me to discuss the stories behind the news in generative AI. Generative AI News Top Stories of the Week 🔦 Meta to Buy 350k NVIDIA GPUs to Train AI Models Like Llama 3 for AGI Generative AI Video Competition Heats Up --ByteDance + TikTok Will Be a Key Player Deceptive LLMs, Model Poisoning, and Other Little Known Generative AI Security Risks Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 Microsoft Copilot Mimics ChatGPT With New Copilot Pro Service and Customized ‘Copilot GPTs’ OpenAI (Partially) Lifts Ban on Military Generative AI Projects Google Assistant Snips 17 Features as Shift to Generative AI and Bard Continues Hundreds of Google Assistant Employees Laid Off as Google Restructures Voice Assistant Around Generative AI Generative AI Partner Parade 🥁🎉 Microsoft and Vodafone Ink $1.5B Decade-Long Generative AI Deal McKinsey expands alliance with SAP to accelerate generative AI-enabled transformation Capgemini and AWS expand strategic collaboration to enable broad enterprise generative AI adoption Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️ Intel Launches Articul8, a New Company Offering a Secure On-prem Generative AI Stack AI-Powered Humanoid Robot Startup 1X Raises $100M Generative AI in Retail 🛒 Walmart Unveils Generative AI Search and In-Home Refills Amazon Rolls Out Generative AI Shopping Assistant Generative AI in the World 🌎 OpenAI Shares Strategy to Counter Generative AI Misuse During 2024 Elections Will.i.am Starts New SiriusXM Podcast With AI Co-Host Qd.Pi

We highlighted 19 generative AI news stories from early January in the latest episode of GAIN. Watch the video discussion above or read the news through the links below. CES is the featured segment at the top, with some hits and misses but mostly misses. We also have news from OpenAI with two ChatGPT announcements. That is followed by news from Google, Poe, and a number of funding rounds. Eric Schwartz, head writer of Voicebot.ai, joined Bret Kinsella to break down the news.  Generative AI News Featured CES Stories of the Week 🔦 Rabbit Launches R1 Device for GenAI-Enabled Experiences and Adds $10M in New Funding Amazon Alexa Showcases New Generative AI Experiences From Character.AI, Volley, and Splash BMW and Amazon Fuse Generative AI and Alexa for New Automotive Voice Assistant Getty Completes its Reversal on Generative AI and Launches Generative AI by iStock Intuition Robotics Releases ElliQ 3 Robot With Upgraded Hardware Augmented by Generative AI McAfee’s New Project Mockingbird Aims to Detect Deepfake Voices Microsoft Installs Copilot Key on PC Keyboards for Generative AI Assistant Access A Day in the Life With Ballie: An AI Companion Robot for the Home Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 OpenAI Launches GPT Store for Custom ChatGPT Apps OpenAI's GPT Store to Launch this Week - Don't Get Your Hopes Up ChatGPT Team Edition is the Small Business Solution to Complement ChatGPT Enterprise OpenAI and Microsoft Sued by New York Times for Copyright Infringement Google Bard Code Leaks Point to New Features and a Paid Version with Gemini Ultra Google Cloud launches new generative AI tools for retailers Quora Gets $75M to Grow Poe into the Web Browser of AI Products Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️ Conversational Generative AI Search Startup Perplexity AI Raises $73.6M Clinical Generative AI Assistant Nabla Raises $24M Leonardo.AI Raises $31 Million to Fuel Generative AI Art Platform Open-Source Generative AI Model Startup Replicate Raises $40M

Google once again made our featured story section with an independent benchmark performance analysis of the Gemini Pro LLM compared with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. We go into more depth about the benchmarks and how to interpret the results. Channel 1 says it’s positioned to change the news media with its virtual human avatar-delivered stories and Accenture did a lot of generative AI revenue. Eric Schwartz, head writer of Voicebot.ai, joined me to break down the news this week and offer additional context behind the headlines. Generative AI News Featured Stories of the Week 🔦 CMU Study Shows Gemini Pro Trails GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 in Performance Benchmarks Accenture Had $450M in Gen AI Projects Last Quarter, New Deal with McDonald's, But... Channel 1 Will Use Generative AI to Hyper-personalize Your News. An AI-Enabled CNN? Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️ Generative AI Legal and Professional Services Startup Harvey Raises $80M OpenAI Startup Fund’s Converge Accelerator Starts Accepting New Applicants Anthropic is in Talks for another $750 Million in Funding and a 4.5x Rise in Valuation (we didn’t get to it in the show, but it is a big funding rumor) Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 OpenAI Grants Board Veto Power and Forms in Generative AI Safety Advisory Group Stability AI Brings Out Image-to-3D and a New Membership Model Instagram Rolls Out Generative AI Background Image Editing Tool in the U.S. Microsoft Copilot Adds Generative AI Music Engine Microsoft and TomTom Unveil Generative AI Car Voice Assistant Cerence and Nvidia Debut Automotive Large Language Model CaLLM to Power New Generative AI Features Generative AI in the World 🌏 Google Cloud Will Serve Generative AI to McDonald’s Restaurants Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan Addresses Supporters from Jail Via Deepfake Generative AI Voice Clone [Report]

Google ranks as our featured story section with the launch of the Gemini LLM and the new AI Studio. Mistral and Microsoft were other big newsmakers with the introduction of small LLMs this past week. And there is a lot on the new product and funding front, the EU AI Act, an OpenAI and news media tie-up, and a lot more. Generative AI News Featured Stories of the Week 🔦 Google's Gemini LLM Arrives Next Week and It May Just Outperform GPT-4 (sort of) Google Gemini Looks Amazing in Video Demos, But Marketing Makes Another Unforced Error Google Launches AI Studio for Easy Access to Gemini Generative AI Model Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️ Mistral Has $415M in New Funding, a Big Valuation, and a New LLM to Challenge GPT-4 SoundHound AI Acquires Restaurant Voice AI Startup SYNQ3 Speech AI Startup AssemblyAI Raises $50M Indian Generative AI Startup Sarvam AI Raises $41M Business Generative AI Startup Kognitos Raises $20M Generative AI Tutoring Startup Kyron Learning Raises $14.6M Generative AI Video Startup HeyGen Raises $5.6M Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 Microsoft's New Phi-2 Small LLM Shows Strong Benchmark Performance Elon Musk Releases Generative AI Chatbot Grok on X Snapchat Adds Generative AI Images to Snapchat+ Subscription Service Meta Expands Generative AI Features to Social Media and Teases Invisible Watermarking Getty Images and Runway Team Up to Build Generative AI Video Model for Businesses That Won’t Spark Lawsuits Generative AI in the World 🌏 Google Cloud Will Serve Generative AI to McDonald’s Restaurants Mastercard Unveils Generative AI Retail Tool Shopping Muse The EU AI Act is Approved but It's Not Done Yet - A Breakdown of Some Interesting Details OpenAI Strikes ChatGPT Content Deal with Axel Springer, Publisher of Politico, Insider, and BILD More About GAIN GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week’s discussion on Voicebot’s YouTube channel.

To say November closed with a flurry of generative AI news is a severe understatement. OpenAI almost melted down pulled it back together, and then we had a birthday for a little product called ChatGPT. Nearly every OpenAI competitor attempted to seize on the company’s turmoil and ramped up their visibility for sales, product announcements, or fundraising. Amazon released a slate of new announcements at the AWS re-invent conference. NVIDIA’s quarterly revenue looks like a vertical line. And that’s not all. Eric Schwartz, head writer of Voicebot.ai, and I break down the news once again this week and hopefully offer a little perspective on the story behind the story. Generative AI News Featured Stories of the Week 🔦 ChatGPT Turns 1 - The chat assistant became the catalyst for a year of change. ChatGPT Turns 1 - Timeline of a Remarkable First Year and its Impact on Industry and Society Other OpenAI News - The company was in the news for a few other reasons, too! Timeline of the 106-Hour OpenAI Saga, Altman Will Return, New Board Formed OpenAI Agrees in Principle to Sam Altman's Return as CEO, But this is Far From Over What is OpenAI's Q*? How Aligned Incentives are Fueling a Questionable Narrative. Doesn't OpenAI Board Member Adam D'Angelo Have a Conflict of Interest in Ongoing Dispute? Generative AI winners and losers of the week Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️ NVIDIA Blows Out Revenue Figures as Generative AI Drives Growth Generative AI Startup AI21 Labs Adds $53M to Earlier $155M Funding Round Voice AI for Kids Startup SoapBox Labs Acquired by Edtech Firm Curriculum Associates Generative AI Video Startup Pika Raises $35M Stable Diffusion Synthetic Media Hub Civitai Raises $5.1M Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 Anthropic's Claude 2.1 LLM Has a 200K Context Window, API Tools and Poses a New Challenge to OpenAI Inflection AI Announces Inflection-2 LLM with Significantly Improved Performance What is Amazon PartyRock and How Did AWS Launch a Marketplace Before OpenAI's GPTs? Amazon Q is a Generative AI Copilot for Business Untethered from Enterprise Apps AWS Augments Amazon Bedrock With New Features, Titan Models, Agents Amazon Infuses AWS Services With Generative AI Stable Video Diffusion Likely to Kick Off a Wave of Text-to-Video Services Stability AI: Challenges and Outlook for the One-Time King of Text-to-Image Generation (for paid subscribers) Stability AI Explores Sale as Investor Urges CEO to Resign More About GAIN GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week’s discussion on Voicebot’s YouTube channel. Please join us live next week on YouTube or LinkedIn at 11 a.m. ET. Also, please participate in the live show by commenting, and we are likely to give you a shoutout and may even show your comment on screen.

Today, we have a special episode that was recorded in the midst of the OpenAI management saga where CEO Sam Altman was fired and then hired back. While the management issues have been updated, I thought you might like a window into how developers were thinking about this incident and how the harm in reputation and relationships won't soon be resolved.   Included in the panel are OpenAI developer ambassador Bram Adams, long-time OpenAI advocate and developer Bakz T. Future, GPT innovator Leslie Pound, and my Voicebot colleague Eric Schwartz.   We break down what was happening but really focus on the impact on developers. I think you will find the discussion insightful.

This week continues the theme of market shift. Satya Nadella correctly aligned with the generative AI zeitgeist in focusing on practical applications of the technology. Individuals and companies have moved past bewilderment and wonder and now want to begin implementing and adopting solutions that offer tangible value. Eric Schwartz, head writer of Voicebot.ai, joined me this week to break down the news onslaught from Microsoft, more maneuvring from OpenAI, and a few other announcements. Generative AI News Featured Stories of the Week 🔦 Copilots Everywhere - Microsoft’s Ignite conference showcased a number of working productivity solutions for generative AI along with foundation models and other services. Microsoft Copilots Everywhere, A Bing Chat Facelift, and the Shift to Practical Applications Microsoft Unveils Expanded Copilot Generative AI for Business Apps and Roles Azure OpenAI Service Breakdown: GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Use Cases, Users, and Trends How GPT-4 Was Transformed Into Generative AI Search in Bing Chat OpenAI Hegemony - abc OpenAI Has Halted ChatGPT Plus Subscriptions Due to Surging Demand - Join GPTs Demo Event Today GPT Showcase - Deep Dive, Demos, and Data OpenAI's Bid to Become a Data Titan - Distilling the 4-Pronged Generative AI Data Strategy Generative AI winners and losers of the week Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️ Clinical Generative AI Startup Startup Layer Health Raises $4M Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 OpenGPT is LangChain's Open-Source Answer to OpenAI's GPTs You.com Launches Search APIs Giving Generative AI Chatbots Real-Time Web Access Unity Muse - Generative AI Tools for Game Makers SymphonyAI Rolls Out Generative AI Industrial Copilots to Enhance Manufacturing Productivity Picsart Debuts Generative AI Tools to Create and Manipulate Synthetic Images and Videos Google Cloud Deepens Anthropic Partnership as Generative AI Tug-of-War With AWS Intensifies More About GAIN GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week’s discussion on Voicebot’s YouTube channel. Please join us live next week on YouTube or LinkedIn at 11 a.m. ET. Also, please participate in the live show by commenting, and we are likely to give you a shoutout and may even show your comment on screen.

GPTs enable users to create a custom ChatGPT experience for themselves and others. Developers gathered to discuss their early creations using OpenAI's latest innovation and wat they've learned.  

Your Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown is here. This week represents a market shift. OpenAI Dev Day is the biggest news, but Grok from x.ai/Twitter/X, GitHub Copilot, a big cyber attack, and other stories depict a rapidly shifting market. We saw shifts earlier this year, but many seemed reactionary or random. Today, everything seems much more intentional and grounded. Featured Stories of the Week 🔦 Grok is here - Elon Musk is making good on his promise to challenge OpenAI with the introduction of X.ai’s Grok. It is ChatGPT for Twitter (X) users. We did a full breakdown this week. What is Grok? Is X.ai's Chatbot for Twitter Really Better Than ChatGPT? OpenAI Dev Day Rundown - Everyone was drinking from a firehose this week as OpenAI extended features, updated the models, and created a no-code environment for custom bots built on the ChatGPT backbone. We had lots of great comments on this in the live stream. 12 Things that Matter from OpenAI Dev Day - Including 2M Developers and Personal Bots OpenAI Keynote Condensed to 5 Minutes followed by Developer Panel OpenAI Unveils Custom ‘GPTs’ Allowing Anyone to Build ChatGPT Agents OpenAI Enhances GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 Knowledge and Memory, Drops Prices and Ups Legal Protection Generative AI winners and losers of the week. Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️ Aleph Alpha Lands $500M, Contends for "OpenAI of Europe" Status IBM Creates $500M Enterprise Generative AI Startup Investment Fund Eilla AI's AI-driven financial analysis platform raises $1.5M Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 Samsung Unveils Gauss Generative AI Model to Rival ChatGPT Web Browser Brave Adds Generative AI Assistant Leo Wix Launches Generative AI Chatbot for Website Building Grammarly Releases Enterprise Generative AI Tools That Mimic Your Writing Style YouTube Tests Generative AI Chatbot and Comment Summaries Generative AI in the World 🌏 ChatGPT Suffers DDoS Attack and Multiple Outages. Anthropic Also Down. What's Going On?

OpenAI Dev Day offered the industry a lot of new announcements and useful features. GPTs offer a no-code ChatGPT customization option for users, the Assistant API provides new features for developers, and GPT-4 Turbo is more capable and less expensive to use for chat use cases than 3.5, and maybe GPT-4 itself. If you would like a 12-point rundown of the OpenAI Dev Day announcements, check out this summary from Sythedia.  Joining me this week are four developers that use the OpenAI APIs and have deep experience in everything from conversational AI bots to RAG-based vector databases. They offer some practical insights into the importance of various announcements and their likely market impact. The guests include: Joao Paulo Alqueres - CEO and co-founder of Iara Digital Michael Freenor - director of applied AI at WillowTree Michal Stanislawek - CEO and co-founder of Utter.one Tejas Totade - CTO at Ruder Finn This conversation was also broadcast live through LinkedIn and YouTube. You can watch a five minute super-cut of the Dev Day keynote followed by the developer panel here.  The recording was a special edition of the Generative AI News Rundown, also know as GAIN for short. Join us for a live stream discussion about the top generative AI news of the week on LinkedIn or YouTube on Thursdays at 11 am ET. 

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for November 3, 2023 is here. Just when we thought it might be a slow news week, it just pours in. Eighteen stories this week! Generative AI News Featured Stories of the Week 🔦 Deepfake consumer sentiment - Key findings from a survey of 2,000 U.S. adults shed new light on consumer awareness, experience, and concerns related to deepfakes and voice clones. New Report - Deepfake and Voice Clone Consumer Sentiment and Experience White House issues regulation - President Biden issued an executive order with far-reaching implications for AI regulation. While it was promoted as rules for how the federal government will approach generative AI, its scope will touch a wide swath of the industry and impact how the companies operate. President Biden Signs Executive Order Setting AI Safety Standards Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence Generative AI winners and losers of the week. Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️ Anthropic Secures $2 Billion in New Funding from Google Clinical Generative AI Assistant Startup Abridge Raises $30M Cleanlab Raises $25M to Wipe Out Generative AI Hallucinations Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 RedPajama's Giant 30T Token Dataset Shows that Data is the Next Frontier in LLMs OpenAI Teaches ChatGPT to Read PDFs and Pick Tools Without Being Asked Poe Starts Sharing Revenue With Generative AI Chatbot Developers in New Creator Economy LinkedIn Premium Launches Generative AI Personalization of Posts and Job Listings Square Adds Generative AI Tools for Small Businesses Amazon Rolls Out New Image Generation Tools for Seller Ads Google Rolls Out Generative AI Image Creator for Advertisers and Businesses LexisNexis Launches Lexis+ AI, Generative AI for Lawyers Powered by OpenAI and Anthropic Generative AI in the World 🌏 The Push Back Against Generative AI Alarmists and Anti-Open-Source Regulation Has Begun Joint Statement on AI Safety and Openness Google Brain founder says big tech is lying about AI extinction danger AI one-percenters seizing power forever is the real doomsday scenario, warns AI godfather More About GAIN GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week’s discussion on Voicebot’s YouTube channel. Please join us live next week on YouTube or LinkedIn at 11 a.m. ET. Also, please participate in the live show by commenting, and we are likely to give you a shoutout and may even show your comment on screen.

Atul Deo, general manager for Amazon Bedrock, the generative AI service from AWS, recently shared the company’s view on the industry, use cases, technology, and how Amazon is serving its customers.  Thoughout the hour-long interview, Deo talked about his experience with machine learning in customer contact center applications, transcription services, natural language processing, and generative AI. He expands on the compay’s generative AI strategy as well as the technology architectures it supports. Prior to his role overseeing the Bedrock service, Deo worked on AWS products such as Connect, Transcribe, and CodeWhisperer. He also held roles in corporate development at Amazon and Yahoo! and began his career as a software developer. 

This week’s Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown covers two weeks of news. Eric Schwartz of Voicebot.ai and I jammed in 16 different news stories and a few other tidbits in this double roundup. Featured stories this week include: OpenAI Economics - OpenAI is generating a lot of revenue from ChatGPT Plus subscriptions and API usage by software providers. However, the popularity of Azure OpenAI Service is siphoning off many of those API customers as they move into production on Azure, which means lower margins for the LLM kings. SEO in Crisis? - Generative AI search is about to reap substantial change in the SEO industry, and we consider the analysis of a Texas A&M marketing professor’s warning that the current crop of SEO consultants may be facing extinction. Foundation Models and Transparency - Stanford researchers have a new 100-point generative AI model transparency checklist. We consider the good, the bad, and the ugly of this endeavor. Generative AI winners and losers of the week. Generative AI News Links to the stories we covered this week are included below. Featured Stories of the Week 🔦 The Implication of OpenAI's False Start on Arrakis Will Generative AI Search Kill Traditional Search and SEO at the Same Time? Measuring Foundation Model Transparency Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️ Luiza Nets $10M in Funding for Generative AI Assistant That Lives in WhatsApp and Telegram AI Efficiency Startup CentML Raises $27M Deepfake Generative AI Detection Startup Reality Defender Raises $15M Generative AI Music Startup Riffusion Raises $4M Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 Midjourney’s First Generative AI Art Mobile App is (Almost) All Anime, All the Time Google Adds Broad Generative AI Indemnity, But You Might Want to Note the Exceptions Google Search Rolls Out AI-Powered Speaking Practice for Language Learners Google Search Generative Experience will Create Images and Provide Writing Assistance. Is This Bard? Baidu Rolls Out Ernie 4.0 Generative AI Model Rivaling GPT-4 Generative AI is the Star of Qualcomm’s Next-Gen Chips Deutsche Telekom and SK Telecom Team Up to Build Customer Service LLM Nvidia Leverages GPT-4 for New Robot-Training AI Agent Generative AI in the World 🌏 NYC Mayor Adams Uses AI Voice Clone for Multilingual Robocalls More About GAIN GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week’s discussion on Voicebot’s YouTube channel. Please join us live next week on YouTube or LinkedIn at 11 a.m. ET. Also, please participate in the live show by commenting, and we are likely to give you a shoutout and may even show your comment on screen.

This week’s Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown focuses more on features and economics than foundation models. Featured stories this week include: Adobe and Canva show the marketers new tool sets - Adobe introduced a new list of features, upgraded Firefly models and a new text-to-vector-image model that will make manipulating AI generative images easier. Canva also extended its generative AI features as the too companies take different paths in rolling out generative AI. Generative AI Economics - Some apps with generative AI features charge for the capabilities while most do not. We walk through the market, what is being charged and, notably, who is not and why. Generative AI winners and losers of the week. Generative AI News Links to the stories we covered this week are included below. Featured Stories of the Week 🔦 Adobe Debuts New Firefly Generative AI Models and Features Canva’s New Magic Studio Pulls Enormous Generative AI Toolkit and $200M Creator Fund Out of a Hat To Charge or Not to Charge for Generative AI Features - Different Approaches Emerge ChatGPT Mobile App Tops 50M Downloads, Net Revenue at $3M Per Month - Full Breakdown Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️ Observe Raises $50M and its Olly GPT is a Generative AI Assistant for Infrastructure Monitoring Generative AI Customization Startup Gradient Raises $10M Generative AI Agent Training Startup Luda Raises $7M Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 OpenAI is Looking to Make its Own Chips for AI Training and Inference Truepic and Hugging Face Partner to Highlight the Latest Innovations in Transparency to AI-Generated Content Will Adobe Content Credentials or Text-to-Vector Graphics Be More Impactful? ElevenLabs Releases Generative AI Voice Translation and Dubbing Tool Opera Teaches Generative AI Assistant Aria to Mimic Your Writing Style HungryRoot CEO Leverages Generative AI for ‘Every’ App to Encourage Deeper Relationships and Self-Discovery Generative AI in the World 🌏 Spotify Code Hints at Generative AI Playlists Apple is Far Behind Cloud Providers in Generative AI Says Needham Analyst More About GAIN GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week’s discussion on Voicebot’s YouTube channel. Please join us live next week on YouTube or LinkedIn at 11 a.m. ET. Also, please participate in the live show by commenting, and we are likely to give you a shoutout and may even show your comment on screen.

Here is today’s Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown that kicks off a new month and a new quarter. It looks like October is going to be just as active as September. Featured stories this week include: Deepfake scams more frequent - Recent deepfakes of MrBeast and Tom Hanks highlight the proliferation of deepfake-fueled fraud and the lack of detection tools on social media (and elsewhere, for that matter). The assistants rise again - Bard is coming to Google Assistant, while Meta AI is a new assistant that Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t seem to have much enthusiasm for. What he is enthusiastic about is the new AI characters, which are entertainment-oriented as opposed to the productivity-focused Bard, ChatGPT, Claude, and so on. We break down the different classes of assistants and what you should actually expect from the marriage of Bard and Google Assistant. Generative AI winners and losers of the week. Generative AI News Links to the stories we covered this week are included below. Featured Stories of the Week 🔦 MrBeast and Tom Hanks Followers the Latest Victims of Deepfake Scams Bard Comes to Google Assistant Meta AI is a Generative AI Assistant, but the AI Characters Shift Focus to Entertainment Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️ Generative AI Learning Startup Gizmo Raises $3.5M Ex-Tinder CEO’s Generative AI Relationship Mentor Startup Meeno Raises $3.9M Visa Creates $100M Generative AI Startup Investment Fund Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 Cohere Rolls Out Enterprise Generative AI Chatbot API LinkedIn Unveils Generative AI Hiring and Learning Tools Meta: Generative AI features for ads coming to all advertisers Instagram Founders' Artifact News App Adds AI-Generated Images, Gets More Confusing Generative AI in the World 🌏 Facebook’s new AI-generated stickers are lewd, rude, and occasionally nude More About GAIN GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week’s discussion on Voicebot’s YouTube channel. Please join us live next week on YouTube or LinkedIn at 11 a.m. ET. Also, please participate in the live show by commenting, and we are likely to give you a shoutout and may even show your comment on screen.

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown wrapping up an active September had more big stories than any other week of the month. The tech giants were out in force once again with news from Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI. Featured stories this week include: Amazon Goes Long on Anthropic, and Bedrock Gets a Boost - Amazon’s $4 billion investment in Anthropic is more evidence that, at one level, large language models (LLM) are just weapons for use in the cloud wars. It is designed to capture more cloud computing revenue for AI workloads and boost the reputation of Amazon’s AI server chips. In addition, Amazon Bedrock, the foundation model garden, now has Meta’s Llama 2. OpenAI’s Giant Valuation Increase and ChatGPT Gets an Upgrade - The reported $80-$90 billion valuation that OpenAI is pitching has many levels of nuance. However, one element that doesn’t require nuance perception is the new 2023 revenue forecast. It beat the original estimate by 5x. ChatGPT also received a big upgrade this week and saw the return of internet browsing. Generative AI winners and losers of the week. Generative AI News Links to the stories we covered this week are included below. Featured Stories of the Week 🔦 Amazon Reshuffles LLM Ecosystems with an [up to] $4B Investment in Anthropic Amazon Bedrock Generative AI Service Widens Access and LLM Options What a $90B Valuation Says About OpenAI's Traction and Revenue Growth Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 ChatGPT Reconnects to the Internet OpenAI Turns ChatGPT into a Voice Assistant That Can See and Understand Images and Speech Google Bard Can Create a Personal Knowledge Graph for Users and May Become an Assistant Meta Introduces Generative AI Chatbot Assistant and a Cast of Celebrity Chatbot Characters Generative AI Startup Mistral Releases Free ‘Open-Source’ 7.3B Parameter LLM Getty Images Has Launched a "Commercially Safe" Text-to-Image Generator Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️ Spanish Writing Generative AI Assistant Startup Correcto Raises $7M More About GAIN GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week’s discussion on Voicebot’s YouTube channel. Please join us live next week on YouTube or LinkedIn at 11 a.m. ET. Also, please participate in the live show by commenting, and we are likely to give you a shoutout and may even show your comment on screen.

We have another episode of the Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown, which provides a live discussion of the week’s top industry news. This week, the tech giants were out in force with news from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and OpenAI. Featured stories this week include: Alexa Gets an LLM - Amazon has had a large language model (LLM) for years, but never let it out of the lab until ChatGPT changed the market seemingly overnight. Amazon has fully embraced LLMs at this point and started to infuse it through AWS, and across its Alexa-enabled products and services. Eric and I discussed what was demonstrated this week, my hands-on experience with the capabilities, the limitations, and more inside details. Hour One Can Change What You Say in a Video - Hour One just launched a really interesting new feature that enables you to change what people say in a video. Add a new script or upload an audio file, and it will match the person’s mouth and facial movements with the written text. This can be used for your own footage or stock video. Check out the demo here. Assistants on Parade - Google Bard got an upgrade this week with a connection to Google Workspace and other Google services. This may be truly useful and extend the value of Bard to a level of personalized benefit we have not yet seen in the market. Microsoft also announced Copilot will come to Windows 11 next week, and ChatGPT is expected to get access to DALL-E 3 text-to-image generation. This led to a more general discussion about digital assistants and the different models that are emerging. Generative AI winners and losers of the week. Generative AI News Links to the stories we covered this week are included below. Featured Stories of the Week 🔦 Amazon Alexa Gets Generative AI Makeover and Explores New Use Cases for Consumers Alexa Infuses Generative AI Into Amazon Smart Homes Amazon Gives Alexa a Generative AI Makeover Hour One Demo Shows Generative AI Adding New Life to Videos Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 Microsoft Copilot Flies Generative AI Features Across Windows 11, Edge, Office, and Every Other Microsoft App Google Bard Enhances Model With Answers from Your Gmail, Docs, and More Apps OpenAI Teases DALL-E 3 Text-to-Image Generator Built Into ChatGPT Oracle Launches Generative AI Clinical Voice Assistant Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️ Roblox Acquires Voice AI Moderation Startup Speechly Writer Lands $100M in New Funding for Enterprise AI Writing Application Generative AI in the World 🌏 Morgan Stanley Rolls Out OpenAI GPT-Powered Assistant for Financial Advisors