Generative AI News Rundown - Debunking Myths, Plus Anthropic, X.ai, Databricks, OpenAI, and Much More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 377
06/17/24 • 58 min
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
- 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 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
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
- 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 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
Previous Episode
Generative AI News Rundown - Pi-crosoft, Unusual Inflection, Google + Apple, GPT-5, Anthropic, Grok-1, and Much More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 376
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
- 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
Next Episode
Generative AI News Rundown - Google Talks Agents, Mistral Surprises, Elon Musk Raising Billions and Much More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 378
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
- 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
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