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OpenAI introduced GPT-4o as a new model and the foundation for ChatGPT. The company also offered more than a dozen videos and other use case examples, which enabled us to break down many of the nuances enabled by the new model. Is this the voice assistant everyone always wanted? A day later, Google debuted its latest updates for Gemini and offered a preview of Project Astra, the upgraded future of Gemini assistant, which they say will turn it into an agent for users. Google provided just a couple of videos and examples, but it also showed off a much broader set of impacts across its applications. These include search, Workspace, photos, and smart glasses (?). In all, Google had more than 100 announcement at I/O and most related to AI. Below are 20 articles and blog posts that provide added context on the biggest news across the generative AI landscape. There were a few stories we did not get to that were also of significant impact and we will likely work them into the next episode of GAIN. Generative AI News Top Stories of the Week 🔦 ChatGPT 4o is the Voice Assistant We Always Wanted, with Two Exceptions 6 Things Announced at Google I/O, One That Mattered A Lot, and One Mystery OpenAI Rundown 🤖 Accolades for OpenAI's GPT-4o Are Rising OpenAI Shows Off New GPT-4o Generative AI Model and More ChatGPT Upgrades Hello GPT 4o Introducing GPT-4o and more tools to ChatGPT free users OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever Leaves Company ChatGPT 4o is the Voice Assistant We Always Wanted, with Two Exceptions Google AI Rundown 🔍 Google’s ‘Gemini Era:’ The Top Generative AI Google I/O 2024 Announcements Google Unveils Gemini ‘Gem’ Custom Generative AI Chatbots to Rival OpenAI’s GPT Store Introducing VideoFX, plus new features for ImageFX and MusicFX Gemini breaks new ground with a faster model, longer context, AI agents and more Generative AI in Search: Let Google do the searching for you 3 new ways to stay productive with Gemini for Google Workspace 6 Things Announced at Google I/O, One That Mattered A Lot, and One Mystery Announcing Trillium, the sixth generation of Google Cloud TPU Ask Photos: A new way to search your photos with Gemini 100 things we announced at I/O 2024 LLM Lounge 🍸 Anthropic Taps Instagram Co-Founder for Chief Product Officer to Expand Enterprise Generative AI Services Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 AWS Launches Amazon Bedrock Studio for to Support No-Code Generative AI Projects Generative AI in the World 🌎 YouTube’s AI ‘Jump Ahead’ Tool Helps Users Skip to the Best Parts of Videos

Key stories in this episode include shadow AI arriving via employees, Meta’s secret generative AI strategy, and a new framework for entertainment applications powered by the technology. There are also six stories about big funding rounds and several products adding generative AI-powered features. Generative AI News Top Story of the Week 🔦 Employees Are Bringing Their Own AI to Work Regardless of Company Support Navigating Generative AI 🗺 Generative AI in Entertainment Framework and Landscape Meta's Secret Weapon in the Generative AI Wars May Be its Smart Glasses + Assistant LLM Lounge 🍸 Amazon Bedrock Studio Streamlines Generative AI App Development AWS Rolls Out Enterprise Generative AI Assistant Amazon Q Snowflake Jumps into Generative AI with a New LLM OpenAI Deal with Financial Times Another Sign That Data is the Key LLM Battlefront OpenAI and The Financial Times Trade Content License for Generative AI Features OpenAI Shares Secret Rules Behind ChatGPT Behavior Grok AI Starts Summarizing News for X Stories Feature Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 GitHub Copilot Workspace Moves Beyond Code Generation Stack Overflow Completes its Generative AI Reversal with an OpenAI Partnership Stack Overflow Fully Embraces Generative AI With OpenAI Partnership Anthropic Debuts Mobile App and Businesses Subscription Service for Generative AI Chatbot Claude Nvidia Augments ChatRTX Generative AI Chatbot With Google and OpenAI LLMs, Voice Control Meta Gives Advertisers a Generative AI Production Suite SoundHound Inks Deal With Perplexity to Bolster Voice Assistant With Generative AI Search Engine Model Yelp Debuts Generative AI Assistant to Link Customers and Businesses Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️ Mistral Poised to Raise New Funding at $6 Billion Valuation to Drive LLM Innovation Docusign Buys Generative AI Legal Services Startup Lexion for $165M Enterprise Generative AI Platform Lamini Raises $25M AI Cloud Startup CoreWeave Raises $1.1B as GPU Demand Surges FlexAI Raises $30M to Solve Generative AI Chip Shortage OpenAI Startup Fund Raises $15M Generative AI in the World 🌎 TikTok Starts Automatically Labeling AI-Produced Synthetic Media

Over two recent weeks a landslide of stories mostly revolved around large language models (LLM). Llama 3 was the biggest news, but the debut of new models by Microsoft, Mistral, and X.ai also pointed to a downstream impact. We also have a couple of nine-figure funding rounds, a nine-figure acquisition, and a new unicorn valuation is confirmed. Read the news through the links below and watch my discussion with Eric Schwartz of Voicebot.ai, in which we break it all down via the YouTube video above. Generative AI News Top Story of the Week 🔦 8 Charts that Explain Enterprise Generative AI Adoption in 2024 LLMs on Parade 🎉 Meta Llama 3 Launch Part 1 - 8B and 70B Models are Here, with 400B Model Coming Meta Llama 3 Launch Part 2 - New Model Security and Performance Benchmarks Meta Llama 3 Launch Part 3 - Meta AI Upgrade, Broader Distribution & Strategy Meta Unveils Llama 3 Generative AI Model, Claims It As ‘Most Capable’ Open LLM Around X.ai Announces Grok-1.5V Multimodal Foundation Model and a New Benchmark Mistral's 8x22B LLM Mixes Performance with Efficiency Microsoft's Phi AI Models Show it is Not Just an OpenAI Reseller New Apple Acquisition Reinforces On-Device Generative AI Focus AWS Widens Amazon Bedrock Platform With Custom Model Imports, Evaluation, Choices, and Content Filtering OpenAI Enhances Assistants API with Advanced File Management and Cost Control Features Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 Microsoft Shows Off Generative AI Model That Makes Deepfake Videos From Still Photos Adobe Photoshop Adds New Firefly Image 3 Model With ‘Photographic’ Quality and Image Fine-Tuning Tools Adobe Rolls Out Acrobat Acrobat AI Assistant to Explain Documents to Users Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️ Cognition Labs Claims $2B Valuation After 6 Months and $175M Investment in Generative AI Coding Assistant Devin Generative AI Coding Startup Augment Splashes Out of Stealth With $252M Generative AI Customer Service Startup Parloa Raises $66M Nvidia Spends $700M to Buy Run.ai and Bolster AI Management and Infrastructure Perplexity Enterprise Debuts Alongside New Funding Round and $1B Valuation Apple Buys French AI Startup Datakalab Generative AI in the World 🌎 Amazon Music Introduces ‘Maestro’ Generative AI Playlist Builder

For you today, we have updates around Google Cloud Next, the LLM announcement gauntlet continues, new funding rounds, and text-to-music apps. This week’s news concludes with a discussion around the shortcomings of autoregressive large language models (LLM) and why the technology is unlikely to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI). Read the news through the links below and watch my discussion with Eric Schwartz of Voicebot.ai, in which we break it all down via the YouTube video above. Generative AI News Top Stories of the Week 🔦 5 Key Generative AI Announcements from Google Cloud Next Generative AI Stars at Google Cloud Next: Here’s The Most Notable News This Year Google Showcases New Generative AI Coding Assistants to Take on GitHub Copilot Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 Mistral Has a New 176B Parameter LLM and a Number of New Customers Mistral AI Floats New Mixtral 8x22B Generative AI Model as Free 281GB Download OpenAI Enhances GPT-4 Turbo Model for API and ChatGPT, Including Visual Input Cohere Releases Enterprise LLM Command R+ Signs Up With Microsoft Azure to Host Tonic.ai Places CustomGPT.ai RAG Above OpenAI Poe Rolls Out ‘Price Per Message’ Generative AI Chatbot Monetization Stability AI Releases Augmented Text-to-Music Engine Stable Audio 2 With Upload and Style Transfer Features Humane Starts Shipping $700 Generative AI Pin Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️ Elon Musk's X.ai in Talks to Raise $3B at a Valuation Matching Anthropic Generative AI Music Startup Udio Come Out of Stealth With $10M and Song-Writing App Read AI Raises $21M to Apply Generative AI Meeting Summaries to Email and Slack Messages Generative AI in the World 🌎 4 Shortcomings of Large Language Models - Yan LeCun, Research, and AGI

We begin this week with three thematic discussions. Generative AI myths reviews the recent Stargate rumors and why journalists are so easily co-opted into publishing stories that may have a seed of truth shrouded in impractical, nonsensical claims. We also discuss three news items highlighting how generative AI is transforming the search market and the coalition of companies that want to displace NVIDIA from its generative AI throne. That is followed by an onslaught of news from the past two weeks. We have an LLM rundown that includes announcements from Anthropic, X.ai, Databricks, and AI21 Labs, as well as a dedicated section on OpenAI announcements. Funding highlights include HeyGen and Hailo. There is also news from Adobe, Opera, Samsung, Open Interpreter, and Financial Times. Generative AI News Top Stories of the Week 🔦 Sam Altman is Not Raising $7T, Microsoft is Unlikely to Build a $100B Supercomputer, and the Spectre of Dark GPUs Search In Transition - Ads for Perplexity, No Login for ChatGPT, Google Subscriptions Perplexity Will Embed Ads in Generative AI Search Engine: Report ChatGPT No Longer Requires Log-In as OpenAI Tries to Broaden Generative AI Chatbot User Base NVIDIA's High Margins Eyed by a Coalition of Competitors and Customers Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 Open Interpreter, Do Engines, and Using LLMs to Enable Actions Grok-1.5 Closes Gap with OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, Aces Long Context Window Retrieval X.AI Showcases Grok-1.5 Generative AI Model Ahead of X Chatbot Upgrade AI21 Labs Debuts an Open-Source Model With High Token Throughput AI21 Debuts Hybrid Structure Generative AI Model Jamba Databricks Claims a Performance Lead with a New Open LLM Opera Browser Experiments With On-Device LLM Support Adobe Rolls Out Firefly Services and Custom Generative AI Models for Content Creation Character AI’s Generative AI Chatbots Learn to Speak Aloud BixbyGPT? Samsung Looks to Generative AI for Voice Assistant OpenAI Updates OpenAI Hints at Alexa and Siri Rival With New ‘Voice Engine’ Trademark Filing OpenAI Enhances Generative AI Model Fine-Tuning and Custom Model Services OpenAI Gears Up for Mid-Year Launch of GPT-5: Report ChatGPT Adds Editing Tools to DALL-E Synthetic Images Artists Take Sora for a Test Drive While OpenAI Courts Hollywood for Text-to-Video Generative AI Funding Fountain and Money Gusher 💰⛲️ Amazon Completes $4B Anthropic Investment, Links Up with Accenture HeyGen is About to Close $60M on a $500M Post Valuation Generative AI Video Startup HeyGen Closing in on $60M Funding Round Chipmaker Hailo Raises $120M and Unveils New On-Device Generative AI Accelerator Generative AI in the World 🌎 Financial Times Launches Generative AI Chatbot for Subscribers Powered by Anthropic’s Claude 3 LLM

We begin with an in-depth discussion of Microsoft’s not-quite acquisition of Inflection AI and the billion-dollar startup’s recent large language model (LLM), which appears to approach GPT-4-level performance. We carry on with the LLM roundup with a review of Grok-1’s open-source debut, Apple’s discussions with Google about using Gemini for the iPhone, GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 rumors, Perplexity’s rumored unicorn status, Together AI’s funding round and more. Of course, we also hit on NVIDIA’s Blackwell announcement and the rise of GR00T. Figure 01 may have raised over $600 million for its humanoid robot startup, but NVIDIA’s announcement was more impactful. Now that NVIDIA and Tesla both have active humanoid robot programs, you have two companies that know how to scale manufacturing in the segment. While I don’t expect this industry to hit acceleration anytime soon, NVIDIA and Tesla will help push the innovation envelope faster and bring plans for mass production. Generative AI News Top Stories of the Week 🔦 How OpenAI's Former Board Inadvertently Created a New Competitor Inside its Patron Inflection Reveals a New Model Rivaling GPT-4, Pi Daily Users, and Different Assistant Strategy X.ai's Grok-1 Model is Officially Open-Source and Larger Than Expected Anthropic Says it Just Dethroned GPT-4 from Atop the Frontier Generative AI Model Rankings GPT-4.5 Turbo Details Leak Through Search Engines Ahead of Rumored OpenAI Announcement OpenAI Gears Up for Mid-Year Launch of GPT-5: Report How Apple's Discussions with Google and OpenAI Could Impact Generative AI Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 Nvidia Unveils Powerful Generative AI Blackwell Chip and Platform Character AI’s Generative AI Chatbots Learn to Speak Aloud Midjourney Upgrades Synthetic Image Engine With Consistent Character Generation Pika Augments Generative AI Video Platform With Synthetic Sound Effects Google Infuses Fitbit with New Personal Health Generative AI Model Based on Gemini France Fines Google for $272 Million Over Generative AI Training Practices ChatGPT Can ‘Read Aloud’ Responses in 5 Voices and 37 Languages OpenAI's Sora Text-to-Video Demonstrations are Insanely Good Generative AI Funding Fountain and Money Gusher 💰⛲️ Why Perplexity is Already a Unicorn Together AI Raises $106M to Expand Open Source Generative AI Platform ChatGPT Speaks Through Figure 01 Robot Following $675M Funding Apple Acquires DarwinAI Ahead of 2024 Generative AI Plans Generative AI in the World 🌎 OpenAI Adds News Partnerships in French and Spanish Through Le Monde and Prisa

Google dominated the generative AI news earlier in 2024. The unexpected introduction of Gemini 1.5 is covered in depth, and guest host Allen Firstenberg discusses his first-hand experience testing the model. We also cover the Gemma open-source models and Google’s latest PR misstep related to its image generation. Also on tap are discussions around Mistral, NVIDIA, Adobe, Pindrop, and a few more. Generative AI News Top Stories of the Week 🔦 Google Goes Big on Context with Gemini 1.5 and Dips Into Open-Source with Gemma Google Unveils Gemini 1.5 Pro LLM With Staggering 1M-Token Context Window Google Unveils Open-Sources Gemma Generative AI Models as Lightweight Gemini Alternative Trust is the Hidden Force Shaping the Generative AI Market and Google Keeps Squandering It Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 Mistral Introduces Two New High-Performance LLMs, and Neither Are Open-Source Pindrop Launches Real-Time Audio Deepfake Detection Tool Pindrop Pulse Adobe Brings Generative AI Assistant to Help Extract Information from 3 Trillion PDFs Microsoft Introduces a New Red Teaming Toolkit for Generative AI Security and Safety Testing Stability AI Upgrades Synthetic Media Engine to Stable Diffusion 3 Generative AI Funding Fountain and Money Gusher 💰⛲️ NVIDIA is Officially the Giant of Generative AI Abridge Raises $150M for Automating Medical Documentation and Plans to Create Generative AI Foundation Models Generative AI Image Editing Startup Photoroom Raises $43M Generative AI in the World 🌎 Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman over contract breach The Surprising Tactics of Deepfakes Targeting Contact Centers Today Klarna Says the Quiet Part Out Loud - Generative AI Can Replace a Lot of Contact Center Staff

Vijay Balasubramaniyan is the CEO and co-founder of Pindrop. He first joined me on the podcast way back in 2019 for episode 86. I still recommend people listen to that episode. You will learn a lot about voice authentication. In 2021, Vijay returned for episode 193. We now have him three years later and the topic is new.   Deepfakes and voice clones are common topics of discussion now, but Pindrop has been working on this for more than seven years. As a leading voice authentication solution, the team was intent to understand how voice clones could be used to impersonate a trusted user. Fast forward to 2023 and 2024 and they have a commercial product called Pindrop Pulse for deepfake detection.   It is state of the art deepfake detection that is already being used by several large financial institutions. Results from customers deployed in 2023 show a 99% identification rate for voice clones created by the leading synthetic voice providers, 90% for zero-day voice clones from unknown providers, and both metrics come with a sub-1% false positive rate. These stats are essential as you will see lots of claims, but most are identifying a small subset of voice clone types or carry an impractically high false positive rate.  

Joanna Czajka joined me to discuss how her team integrated OpenAI technology into the Opera browser to provide more value to users. She goes into the journey that started with rethinking the browsing experience and being midstream in that process when ChatGPT launched. That led to more rethinking of the experience and the introduction of several generative AI features.

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.