Generative AI News - GPTBot Debut, Amazon's Gen AI Strategy, W&B Becomes a Unicorn, Tome, NVIDIA, Cohere, Zoom & More - Voicebot Podcast 344

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


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