The Voicebot Podcast Bret Kinsella

Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for August 31, 2023. Google may have dominated the headlines this week, but it was hardly alone. Special segments this week include:
ChatGPT Enterprise - What was announced, where is it headed, and what are the implications? BTW, you may be interested in the Yammer go-to-market strategy reference as point 7 in the main article. We also put ChatGPT Enterprise in perspective alongside Google’s more ambitious play.
Google Uses Cloud Next to Shift Generative AI Perception - We go through more than 15 different announcements and the implications for the market and debate the merit and importance of different moves.
Generative AI winners and losers of the week.
This week, Eric Schwartz, Voicebot.ai’s head writer, and I were joined by Google Developer Expert (GDE) Allen Firstenberg to break down the Google Gen AI Palooza and other top generative AI stories. Also, if you’d like to hear more from Allen, check out his Two Voice Devs podcast/YouTube show.
Generative AI News Links to the stories we covered this week are included below. Like Perplexity AI, we give you source links!
Featured Stories of the Week 🔦
ChatGPT Enterprise - 7 Things to Know About OpenAI’s Latest Product
Google Cloud Announced Dozens of Generative AI Solutions and Reveals an Evolving Strategy
Google Launches Duet AI Assistant for Workspace and Chat
Google Cloud Unveils New Generative AI Tools for Building Search and Conversation Apps
Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️
The Story Behind CoreWeave’s Rumored Rise to a $5-$8B Valuation
Generative AI Infrastructure Startup Modular Raises $100M
Hugging Face Lands $235M in Funding and a Giant New Valuation
AI21 Labs Announces $155M Funding Round and Unicorn Valuation
Generative AI Product Garden 🪴
AI21 Labs Revamps Wordtune into Generative AI Assistant for Enterprises
Meta’s Code Llama is the New Open Source Alternative to GitHub Copilot
ConverseNow Embeds ChatGPT and Google Bard LLMs into Restaurant Voice Assistant
Gupshup Debuts Domain-Specific Generative AI LLMs
Harman JBL Debuts First Smart Speakers with Simultaneous Alexa and Google Assistant Access (not generative AI, but interesting)
Generative AI in the World 🌏
GM Taps Google Dialogflow for Onstar Generative AI Plans
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Oren Aharon is CEO and founder of Hour One, a leader in virtual human innovation, and a pioneer in generative AI. He joined Bret Kinsella to talk about how the technology behind virtual humans has evolved and the role generative AI is playing in the next set of features. 
Hour One's new Reals Activate technology can transform any video into a scripted virtual human experience. It will align mouth movements and sounds to match a script to the video of a person. This means any video of you or anyone else can be transformed into a virtual human experience. Aharon debuted this technology for the first time publicly for the Voicebot Podcast audience. 
If you would like to view the demos, a video of the full interview is available on Voicebot's YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/voicebotai. 
Aharon also talks about the market for virtual humans and how the rising interest in generative AI has accelerated use case adoption. He earned a Phd in electrical engineering from Technion and formerly was a co-founder at Kadoor Electronics and Vectorious Medical Technologies.

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown is back for August 24, 2023. Special segments this week include:
What does the market data say about generative AI adoption? We look at 10 charts that explain a lot about what is happening, why it is happening, and where we are headed.
Meta challenges OpenAI with an open-source automated speech recognition and translation system. Game on!
Generative AI winners and losers of the week.
Eric Schwartz, Voicebot.ai’s head writer, and Bret Kinsella gathered again this week to break down the top generative AI stories and a few other useful pieces of information.
Generative AI News Links to the stories we covered this week are included below. Like Perplexity AI, we give you source links!
Top Stories of the Week - Market Data 📊
Generative AI annual revenue will reach $1.3T in 2032
Generative AI adoption rate accelerates past smartphones and tablets
See where generative AI will make the biggest financial impact on enterprises
Two charts reveal why so many enterprises are rushing to adopt generative AI
Generative AI shifts CEO focus to productivity over customer experience
Developers are quickly adopting generative AI tools, especially GitHub Copilot
NVIDIA announces financial results for the second quarter of 2024
Top Story of the Week - Market Dynamics 🗺
Meta launches new open-source speech recognition and translation model
Generative AI Product Garden 🪴
OpenAI brings fine-tuning to GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4
ElevenLabs launches multilingual generative AI voice model
Allen Institute for AI releases largest open text dataset to boost AI research transparency
Generative AI in the World 🌏
U.S. federal judge rules generative AI works ineligible for copyright
TikTok parent company ByteDance releases generative AI chatbot in China
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 at 11 a.m. ET. 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.

Sarah Rojewski, Telefonica's manager of AI and automation in Germany, and Patrick Esslinger, co-founder of VUI Agency joined Bret Kinsella to talk about the evolution of conversational AI in the contact center and the introduction of generative AI. Rojewski even goes into detail about the latest generative AI project and how the company is looking at the technology. That is supplemented by a conversation about user experience and how AI technologies require new thinking and are accompanied by different customer expectations. 
Prior to her role leading AI inititiaves, Sarah Rojewski spent three years working on Telefonica's Aura voice assistant. Patrick Esslinger co-founded VUI Agency in 2017 and specializes in voice user interface design for enterprise applications. 

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.

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
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. Or, just listen to the podcast here!