Generative AI News Rundown - CES, GPTs, ChatGPT Team, Rabbit, Perplexity, and Much More - Voicebot Podcast 368

We highlighted 19 generative AI news stories from early January
in the latest episode of GAIN. Watch the video discussion above
or read the news through the links below.


CES is the featured segment at the top, with some hits and misses
but mostly misses. We also have news from OpenAI with two ChatGPT
announcements. That is followed by news from Google, Poe, and a
number of funding rounds.


Eric Schwartz, head writer of Voicebot.ai, joined Bret Kinsella
to break down the news. 
Generative AI News Featured CES Stories of the
Week



Rabbit Launches R1 Device for GenAI-Enabled Experiences and
Adds $10M in New Funding




Amazon Alexa Showcases New Generative AI Experiences From
Character.AI, Volley, and Splash




BMW and Amazon Fuse Generative AI and Alexa for New
Automotive Voice Assistant




Getty Completes its Reversal on Generative AI and Launches
Generative AI by iStock




Intuition Robotics Releases ElliQ 3 Robot With Upgraded
Hardware Augmented by Generative AI




McAfee’s New Project Mockingbird Aims to Detect Deepfake
Voices




Microsoft Installs Copilot Key on PC Keyboards for Generative
AI Assistant Access




A Day in the Life With Ballie: An AI Companion Robot for the
Home


Generative AI Product Garden 🪴



OpenAI Launches GPT Store for Custom ChatGPT Apps




OpenAI's GPT Store to Launch this Week - Don't Get Your Hopes
Up




ChatGPT Team Edition is the Small Business Solution to
Complement ChatGPT Enterprise




OpenAI and Microsoft Sued by New York Times for Copyright
Infringement




Google Bard Code Leaks Point to New Features and a Paid
Version with Gemini Ultra




Google Cloud launches new generative AI tools for retailers




Quora Gets $75M to Grow Poe into the Web Browser of AI
Products


Generative AI Funding Fountain ️



Conversational Generative AI Search Startup Perplexity AI
Raises $73.6M




Clinical Generative AI Assistant Nabla Raises $24M




Leonardo.AI Raises $31 Million to Fuel Generative AI Art
Platform




Open-Source Generative AI Model Startup Replicate Raises $40M