Generative AI News Rundown - Shadow AI, Bedrock Studio, Mistralmentum, GitHub Copilot, Stack Overflow, Open AI & More
News for the week ending May 10, 2024
Here is your Generative AI News Rundown (GAIN) for the first two weeks of May 2024. Today’s rundown is centered around 25 articles that shaped the generative AI landscape.
Key stories include shadow AI arriving via employees, Meta’s secret generative AI strategy, and a new framework for entertainment applications powered by the technology. There are also six stories about big funding rounds and several products adding generative AI-powered features.
Read the news through the links below or watch my discussion with Eric Schwartz of Voicebot.ai via the YouTube video above.
Generative AI News
Top Story of the Week 🔦
Navigating Generative AI 🗺
LLM Lounge 🍸
Amazon Bedrock Studio Streamlines Generative AI App Development
OpenAI Deal with Financial Times Another Sign That Data is the Key LLM Battlefront
OpenAI and The Financial Times Trade Content License for Generative AI Features
Generative AI Product Garden 🪴
Stack Overflow Completes its Generative AI Reversal with an OpenAI Partnership
Stack Overflow Fully Embraces Generative AI With OpenAI Partnership
Anthropic Debuts Mobile App and Businesses Subscription Service for Generative AI Chatbot Claude
Nvidia Augments ChatRTX Generative AI Chatbot With Google and OpenAI LLMs, Voice Control
Yelp Debuts Generative AI Assistant to Link Customers and Businesses
Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️
Mistral Poised to Raise New Funding at $6 Billion Valuation to Drive LLM Innovation
Docusign Buys Generative AI Legal Services Startup Lexion for $165M
AI Cloud Startup CoreWeave Raises $1.1B as GPU Demand Surges
Generative AI in the World 🌎
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Mistral Poised to Raise New Funding at $6 Billion Valuation to Drive LLM Innovation
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier today that Mistral is about to close a funding round of about $600 million at a valuation of $6 billion. Previous investors LightSpeed Ventures and General Catalyst are said to be leading the round along with participation from DST, according to
Meta's Secret Weapon in the Generative AI Wars May Be its Smart Glasses + Assistant
Why has Meta invested in the Quest VR product? Once you get past what the company has said about the metaverse and the deeper idea about connecting people, you arrive at the essence of Meta’s business: attention. Why has the company created the Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses? The earliest motivations may be traced back to fierce competition with Snapchat. S…
Employees Are Bringing Their Own AI to Work Regardless of Company Support
Microsoft’s 2024 Work Trend Index Report surveyed 31,000 people across 31 countries and uncovered new information related to AI adoption by business users. A key finding was that 75% of knowledge workers worldwide are already using generative AI. While some executives lament the slow uptake by workers of internally supplied generative AI solutions, they…