Generative AI News Rundown - Debunking Myths, Plus Anthropic, X.ai, Databricks, OpenAI, and Much More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 377

We begin this week with three thematic discussions. Generative AI
myths reviews the recent Stargate rumors and why journalists are
so easily co-opted into publishing stories that may have a seed
of truth shrouded in impractical, nonsensical claims. We also
discuss three news items highlighting how generative AI is
transforming the search market and the coalition of companies
that want to displace NVIDIA from its generative AI throne.


That is followed by an onslaught of news from the past two weeks.
We have an LLM rundown that includes announcements from
Anthropic, X.ai, Databricks, and AI21 Labs, as well as a
dedicated section on OpenAI announcements. Funding highlights
include HeyGen and Hailo. There is also news from Adobe, Opera,
Samsung, Open Interpreter, and Financial Times.
Generative AI News Top Stories of the Week



Sam Altman is Not Raising $7T, Microsoft is Unlikely to Build
a $100B Supercomputer, and the Spectre of Dark GPUs




Search In Transition - Ads for Perplexity, No Login for
ChatGPT, Google Subscriptions




Perplexity Will Embed Ads in Generative AI Search Engine:
Report




ChatGPT No Longer Requires Log-In as OpenAI Tries to Broaden
Generative AI Chatbot User Base




NVIDIA's High Margins Eyed by a Coalition of Competitors and
Customers


Generative AI Product Garden 🪴



Open Interpreter, Do Engines, and Using LLMs to Enable
Actions




Grok-1.5 Closes Gap with OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, Aces
Long Context Window Retrieval




X.AI Showcases Grok-1.5 Generative AI Model Ahead of X
Chatbot Upgrade




AI21 Labs Debuts an Open-Source Model With High Token
Throughput




AI21 Debuts Hybrid Structure Generative AI Model Jamba




Databricks Claims a Performance Lead with a New Open LLM




Opera Browser Experiments With On-Device LLM Support




Adobe Rolls Out Firefly Services and Custom Generative AI
Models for Content Creation




Character AI’s Generative AI Chatbots Learn to Speak Aloud




BixbyGPT? Samsung Looks to Generative AI for Voice Assistant


OpenAI Updates



OpenAI Hints at Alexa and Siri Rival With New ‘Voice Engine’
Trademark Filing




OpenAI Enhances Generative AI Model Fine-Tuning and Custom
Model Services




OpenAI Gears Up for Mid-Year Launch of GPT-5: Report




ChatGPT Adds Editing Tools to DALL-E Synthetic Images




Artists Take Sora for a Test Drive While OpenAI Courts
Hollywood for Text-to-Video


Generative AI Funding Fountain and Money Gusher
️



Amazon Completes $4B Anthropic Investment, Links Up with
Accenture




HeyGen is About to Close $60M on a $500M Post Valuation




Generative AI Video Startup HeyGen Closing in on $60M Funding
Round




Chipmaker Hailo Raises $120M and Unveils New On-Device
Generative AI Accelerator


Generative AI in the World



Financial Times Launches Generative AI Chatbot for
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