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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

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for September 14, 2023 is here. We are seeing another acceleration in the news cycle. Featured stories this week include: NVIDIA and the Chip Industry Rises - New GPU performance gains for existing H100 chips, the expected improvements from the GH200, and a revenue rise for the global semiconductor industry. Jobs at Risk From Generative AI - A Forrester study calls out some professions that will be most impacted by generative AI automation and will either eliminate jobs or create the need for new skills. LLMs that Reason and Act - We discuss the Imbue funding round and why enabling LLMs that reason and agents that can act on our behalf requires total company focus to reach the objective. 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 🔦 NVIDIA Drives Higher GPU Performance and Sets a New Standard in MLPerf Benchmark NVIDIA “Superchip” Blast Past AI Benchmarks Generative AI Gives Global Semiconductor Revenue a Lift After More Than a Year of Delines What Jobs Are at Most Risk From Generative AI Automation `Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️ Imbue Raises $200M to Build Foundation Models that Reason Databricks Raises $500M at a $43B Valuation Generative AI Infrastructure Hardware Startup Enfabrica Raises $125M ChatGPT-Powered Conversational AI Startup Druid Raises $30M Generative AI Product Garden 🪴 Salesforce’s Einstein Copilot is Positioned as a Conversational AI Assistant for CRM Roblox Debuts Generative AI Assistant for Building Virtual Worlds Adobe Firefly is Here, It’s Free, It’s in Photoshop and Illustrator, and Has an Early Midjourney Feel Anthropic Launches Paid Generative AI Chatbot Claude Pro Generative AI in the World 🌏 Google Mandates Deepfake Generative AI Disclaimers on Political Ads Ahead of 2024 Election More About GAIN GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn. 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.