The Generative A.I. Brief #16

Where professionals catch up on the A.I. News of the ⏳ hour.

Hey Everyone,

This was for the week of September 18th, 2023 and some of the week of the 25th. This takes me countless hours, so you might want to take a glance.

Let’s see what happend during the last week or two in A.I. I hope you find something to read of interest here.

You can also just skim the link titles and get some general idea if you are pressed for time. You ready for a lot of news packed into a single piece? Let’s go! 🏃 Weekend reading for the serious folk.

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💬Introduction for Today🎯

This week Meta personas go live, Google Gemini is coming and Anthropic got more funding, from Amazon of all people.

📢Top News 📺

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Anthropic AI: Expanding access to safer AI with Amazon (official)

OpenAI: ChatGPT can now search the web in real time (The Verge)

Meta to release AI persona chatbots this week. Meta to Push for Younger Users With New AI Chatbot Characters (WSJ paywalled)

OpenAI: ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak (official)

FTC and 17 states sue Amazon on antitrust charges

Writers reach tentative deal with studios to end strike after nearly 150 days

Sam Altman wants to make hardware AI now (Ben’s Bites, Quick bites) What? 🤯

🔗Partnership & Announcements🏭

Spotify: Spotify’s AI Voice Translation Pilot Means Your Favorite Podcasters Might Be Heard in Your Native Language (Official)

Generative AI by Getty Images, A New Product, powered by NVIDIA (Official) - More Context (The Verge)

Amazon Claims to Bring Generative A.I. to Assistant Alexa (TechCrunch)

Announcing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion (official) (see Ben’s Summary)

Snap partners with Microsoft on ads in its ‘My AI’ chatbot feature

Google: YouTube announces new AI-powered tools (official)

OpenAI launches DALL-E 3, it will appear in Bing as well (official)

OpenAI Multi Modal Marketing Claims: ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak

Anthropic partners with BCG (Sept 14th)

Cloudflare and Meta Collaborate to Make Llama 2 Available Globally

Meta: Facebook and Instagram will soon get a slew of AI-powered creator tools - View Meta Connect live-stream.

McKinsey launches an open-source ecosystem for digital and AI projects

📰Noted Newsletters📬

Nvidia Illumina Acquisition: The AI Foundry for Healthcare – The Hardware of Life (SemiAnalysis)

🤖 Cyborg Workers (Azeem)

Generative AI and intellectual property

How Google taught AI to doubt itself (Platformer)

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