Generative AI News Rundown - Taylor Swift + Biden Deepfakes, Azure Growth, Indian LLM, Yelp, Shopify, Etsy and More - Voicebot Podcast 371

Here are fifteen generative AI news stories from the past week.
Links to the articles are below, or you can watch the GAIN
Rundown via YouTube above.


Deepfakes and momentum by Microsoft topped the news this week,
while positive moves by Google may have gone unnoticed. Plus, we
have another deep dive into new retail-oriented solutions, new
funding rounds, and more.
Generative AI News Top Stories of the Week



Sex and Politics: Deepfakes Make a Big Splash to Kick Off
2024




Microsoft Azure AI Users Base Rose by 50%, Half of Fortune
500 Adopt OpenAI Service


Generative AI Product Garden 🪴



Google Chrome Embeds Generative AI to Write Text, Organize
Tabs, and Design Browser Experience




OpenAI is Rolling Out ‘GPT Mentions’ in ChatGPT to Invoke
Custom GPTs




Meta’s New Code Llama 70B Rivals GitHub Copilot for
Generative AI Programming Models




IBM’s Generative AI Will Scout Soccer Players for Sevilla FC




Brave Installs Mistral’s Mixtral as Default LLM for
Generative AI Browser Assistant Leo




Google Bard Gets Gemini Pro in 40 Languages and Hits #2 on
Popular Benchmark Leaderboard




Google Adds Imagen2 and GeminiPro To Bard


Generative AI Funding Fountain ️



Indian Generative AI Startup Krutrim Raises $50M to Hit $1B
Valuation




Kore ai Raises $150M to Scale Enterprise Generative AI
Platform


Generative AI in Retail & Commerce



Shopify Expands Generative AI Features with Synthetic Image
Editor for Product Backgrounds and More




Yelp Rolls Out Generative AI Features to Summarize Business
Reviews




Etsy Launches Generative AI ‘Gift Mode’ to Suggest
Personalized Presents


Generative AI in the World



Washington State Issues Generative AI Ethics Guidelines


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