Generative AI News Rundown - Google Talks Agents, Mistral Surprises, Elon Musk Raising Billions and Much More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 378
06/17/24 • 63 min
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
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
Previous Episode
Generative AI News Rundown - Debunking Myths, Plus Anthropic, X.ai, Databricks, OpenAI, and Much More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 377
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
Next Episode
Generative AI News Rundown - LLM Palooza with Llama, Mistral, Phi & Grok, Plus New Funding, Adobe, Apple, and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 379
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 🔦 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
- 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
- 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
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