Generative AI News Rundown - CES, GPTs, ChatGPT Team, Rabbit, Perplexity, Google, Alexa, About $200M in New Funding, and Much More

What happened in generative AI for the first two weeks in January

We highlighted 19 generative AI news stories from the past two weeks 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 me to break down the news. Let me know what you think.

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

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