Generative AI News - GPTBot Debut, Amazon's Gen AI Strategy, W&B Becomes a Unicorn, Tome, NVIDIA, Cohere, Zoom & More - Voicebot Podcast 344

Aug 18, 2023

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for August 11, 2023 is here. 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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