Generative AI News - StableLM, Elon Musk, Drake Deepfake, and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 316

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for April 20, 2023, was
recorded live at the Model Mania conference, which focused on
enterprise generative AI solutions.


News this week has more on Elon Musk and some surprising news
from Stability AI. We also talk about a deepfake of Drake and The
Weeknd that went viral, Adobe Firefly, Atlassian, ChatGPT in
government legal actions, Universal Music lawsuits, and more.


Bret Kinsella hosted this week with his Voicebot.ai colleague
Eric Schwartz. The top stories in generative AI land this week
include:
StableLM and Stable Diffusion XL



Big Data LLM: Stability AI introduced a new
large language model trained on 1.5 trillion data
tokens. It’s open-source and comes in a variety of model
parameter sizes.




Stable Diffusion for the Enterprise: The new
XL model from Stability AI offers better photorealism, more
coherent text, and is positioned for enterprise use. Oh, and
the company’s valuation may have risen from $1B to
$4B in less than six months.


Adobe Firefly for Video



Generative AI for designers and video
makers: Adobe Firefly will make it easier for
designers to incorporate generative AI into their workflow.
The new services for video production will take
that to a new level in Premiere and After Effects.


Atlassian Intelligence



In-Context Search and Answers: The creator
of Jira, Confluence, and Trello has added
generative AI features for summarization, text generation,
and question-answering from your productivity software data.


Elon Musk and X.ai



What is Elon up to now: Musk created
a new company in Nevada last month
called X.ai. He says he wants to create a third option
beyond OpenAI and Google offerings.


Justice Dept Mentions ChatGPT



Name recognition on another level: The
U.S. Justice Department’s suit against Google for alleged
search monopolization said ChatGPT might have come
sooner if not for the company’s stranglehold on the
market.


The Weeknd and Drake Deepfake Goes Viral



Viral Music duo: 10M TikTok views and 600k
Spotify streams later, a popular deepfake of a The Weeknd and
Drake called “Heart on My Sleeve” was taken down due to a
request from one of the music labels.