Generative AI News – GPTBot Debut, Amazon’s Gen AI Strategy, Weights & Biases, Tome, NVIDIA & More – Voicebot Podcast Ep 344
The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for August 11, 2023 is here on the Voicebot Podcast. Special segments this week include:
- GPTBot and OpenAI’s plans to politely crawl the web, along with how most websites will react or should react
- Amazon’s generative AI strategy and how that will carve out unique positioning compared to OpenAI, Google, and others
- The significance of Alexa’s top exec shifting to generative AI
- Generative AI winners and losers of the week.
My Voicebot.ai colleague Eric Schwartz and I were joined this week by Vixen Labs CEO James Poulter to go deep on our first four stories. Thanks James! 🦊
Generative AI News
Links related to the stories are included below if you want to go deeper into any topics.
Top Stories of the Week
- GPTBot and OpenAI’s plans to politely crawl the web
- Amazon’s generative AI strategy, its three-tier model, and market positioning
- The significance of Alexa’s top exec shifting to generative AI
Generative AI Funding Fountain
- Weights & Biases raises $50M on a $1.25B valuation and what this says about the generative AI tools market
- Tome is rumored to be raising a new round and seeking a $600M valuation, double its February 2023 round
Generative AI Product Garden
- NVIDIA and Hugging Face partner on new generative AI training service
- Cohere debuts enterprise generative AI chatbot Coral
Brands in Generative AI Lands
- Google and Universal Music Group pursue licensing deal for deepfake songs
- Zoom adjusts policy on generative AI training with customer data following public outcry
- Apple finally begins focusing on generative AI with a new hiring spree
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Generative AI News Rundown 27 – Show Notes August 11, 2023
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