Generative AI News Rundown - Gigantic Context Window, Gemma Open-Source, NVIDIA, Mistral, Klarna & More

What happened in generative AI for the week ending February 29, 2024

We have a pile of 15 generative AI news headlines for you from the final two weeks of February 2024. The YouTube version of the GAIN Rundown is available above, or you can use the links below to go deeper into the top stories

Google dominated the discussion in February. The unexpected introduction of Gemini 1.5 is covered in depth, and guest host Allen Firstenberg discusses his first-hand experience testing the model. We also cover the Gemma open-source models and Google’s latest PR misstep related to its image generation. Also on tap are discussions around Mistral, NVIDIA, Adobe, Pindrop, and a few more.

Generative AI News

Top Stories of the Week 🔦

• Google Goes Big on Context with Gemini 1.5 and Dips Into Open-Source with Gemma

• Google Unveils Gemini 1.5 Pro LLM With Staggering 1M-Token Context Window

• Google Unveils Open-Sources Gemma Generative AI Models as Lightweight Gemini Alternative

• Trust is the Hidden Force Shaping the Generative AI Market and Google Keeps Squandering It

Generative AI Product Garden 🪴

• Mistral Introduces Two New High-Performance LLMs, and Neither Are Open-Source

• Pindrop Launches Real-Time Audio Deepfake Detection Tool Pindrop Pulse

• Adobe Brings Generative AI Assistant to Help Extract Information from 3 Trillion PDFs

• Microsoft Introduces a New Red Teaming Toolkit for Generative AI Security and Safety Testing

• Stability AI Upgrades Synthetic Media Engine to Stable Diffusion 3

Generative AI Funding Fountain and Money Gusher 💰⛲️

• NVIDIA is Officially the Giant of Generative AI

• Abridge Raises $150M for Automating Medical Documentation and Plans to Create Generative AI Foundation Models

• Generative AI Image Editing Startup Photoroom Raises $43M

Generative AI in the World 🌎

• Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman over contract breach

• The Surprising Tactics of Deepfakes Targeting Contact Centers Today

• Klarna Says the Quiet Part Out Loud - Generative AI Can Replace a Lot of Contact Center Staff

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