The Voicebot Podcast

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