Generative AI News Rundown - Debunking Myths, Plus Anthropic, X.ai, Databricks, OpenAI, and Much More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 377

2024-06-17

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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,...

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 🌎