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After a year when the sudden leap forward of Gen AI and LLMs took almost everyone by surprise, it’s a good time to ignore the hype, take a step back and look at what we have. Guido Appenzeller is a special advisor to a16z, a former CTO at Intel and VM Ware and a leading voice in the current wave of software and technology. In part one of our conversation with Guido, we discuss where AI fits into the existing software universe, what phase 2 might look like, the potential limitations – regulatory and infrastructural - and what it means for developers when you have an additional fundamental system building block with which to work.

It’s time for the Generative AI News (GAIN) Rundown for August 17, 2023. Special segments this week include:

• Using GPT-4 to moderate LLM inputs

• The groups pressuring CEOs to adopt generative AI

• Generative AI winners and losers of the week.

Voicebot.ai’s head writer, Eric Schwartz, joined Bret Kinsella this week to break down all of the top industry stories.

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

• OpenAI wants you to use GPT-4 to moderate your GPT-4 based applications

• Two charts reveal why so many enterprises are rushing to adopt generative AI

Generative AI Funding Fountain

• The $100M Anthropic deal with SK Telecom provides insight into where LLMs are headed

• Voiceflow added $15M in new funding on the back of rapid user growth and generative AI

• DynamoFL raises $15.1M to scale privacy-focused generative AI for enterprises

• OpenAI acquires digital studio Global Illumination

Generative AI Product Garden

• IBM Embeds Meta’s Llama 2 LLM in New Watsonx generative AI platform

• Amazon deploys generative AI for summarizing product reviews

• Google rolls out new generative AI search features

• U.S. DoD forms generative AI task force

• Roblox is deploying its own generative AI models and infrastructure at lower cost

• Detecting Deepfakes - Pindrop demos its anti-fraud voice clone detection

More About GAIN

GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week’s discussion on Voicebot’s YouTube channel. Please join us live next week on YouTube or LinkedIn. Also, please participate in the live show by commenting, and we are likely to give you a shoutout and may even show your comment on screen.

Here is the Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for July 20, 2023. Special segments this week include:

• Meta launches Llama 2, making it open source and free for commercial use. We talk about the implications for the LLM market.

• Did GPT-4’s performance really degrade, as has been reported? We look at the research paper results, evaluate the methodology and consider a rebuttal.

• We also cover the generative AI winners and losers of the week.

My Voicebot.ai colleague Eric Schwartz joined me this week, and we went in-depth on the top news.

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

• Meta Just Became a Big Player in the LLM World, Making Llama 2 Free and Open Source

• New Research Says GPT-4 is Getting Worse. But is it True?

Generative AI Funding Fountain

• Cognaize Raises $18M to Build a Better LLM for the Finance Sector

• Preply Closes Out Series C at $120M and Doubles Down on AI

• SAP Announces Investments in Aleph Alpha, Anthropic, and Cohere

Generative AI Product Garden

• "Apple GPT" is Built on the Secret Large Language Model Ajax

• Microsoft Unveils Bing Chat Enterprise

• AI21 Labs Combats Generative AI Hallucinations With New Contextual Answers API

• Wix Text-to-Website Showcases How Copilots Streamline Complex Tasks and Can Shape Expectations

• Jasper AI Laying Off Staff 9 Months After $125M Raise

Brands in Generative AI Lands

• Associated Press Licenses its News Archive to OpenAI and will Begin Using LLMs

• Deepfake Scam Video Features British Consumer Champion Martin Lewis and Elon Musk

More About GAIN

GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week’s discussion on Voicebot’s YouTube channel. Please join us live next week on YouTube or LinkedIn. Also, please participate in the live show by commenting, and we are likely to give you a shoutout and may even show your comment on screen.