Jan 1, 2024
To say November closed with a flurry of generative AI news is a severe understatement. OpenAI almost melted down pulled it back together, and then we had a birthday for a little product called ChatGPT. Nearly every OpenAI competitor attempted to seize on the company’s turmoil and ramped up their visibility for sales, product announcements, or fundraising. Amazon released a slate of new announcements at the AWS re-invent conference. NVIDIA’s quarterly revenue looks like a vertical line. And that’s not all.
Eric Schwartz, head writer of Voicebot.ai, and I break down the news once again this week and hopefully offer a little perspective on the story behind the story.
Featured Stories of the Week 🔦
ChatGPT Turns 1 - The chat assistant became the catalyst for a year of change.
Other OpenAI News - The company was in the news for a few other reasons, too!
Timeline of the 106-Hour OpenAI Saga, Altman Will Return, New Board Formed
OpenAI Agrees in Principle to Sam Altman's Return as CEO, But this is Far From Over
What is OpenAI's Q*? How Aligned Incentives are Fueling a Questionable Narrative.
Doesn't OpenAI Board Member Adam D'Angelo Have a Conflict of Interest in Ongoing Dispute?
Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️
NVIDIA Blows Out Revenue Figures as Generative AI Drives Growth
Generative AI Startup AI21 Labs Adds $53M to Earlier $155M Funding Round
Voice AI for Kids Startup SoapBox Labs Acquired by Edtech Firm Curriculum Associates
Generative AI Product Garden 🪴
Anthropic's Claude 2.1 LLM Has a 200K Context Window, API Tools and Poses a New Challenge to OpenAI
Inflection AI Announces Inflection-2 LLM with Significantly Improved Performance
What is Amazon PartyRock and How Did AWS Launch a Marketplace Before OpenAI's GPTs?
Amazon Q is a Generative AI Copilot for Business Untethered from Enterprise Apps
AWS Augments Amazon Bedrock With New Features, Titan Models, Agents
Stable Video Diffusion Likely to Kick Off a Wave of Text-to-Video Services
Stability AI: Challenges and Outlook for the One-Time King of Text-to-Image Generation (for paid subscribers)
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