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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 🔦

• Employees Are Bringing Their Own AI to Work Regardless of Company Support

Navigating Generative AI 🗺

• Generative AI in Entertainment Framework and Landscape

• Meta's Secret Weapon in the Generative AI Wars May Be its Smart Glasses + Assistant

LLM Lounge 🍸

• Amazon Bedrock Studio Streamlines Generative AI App Development

• AWS Rolls Out Enterprise Generative AI Assistant Amazon Q

• Snowflake Jumps into Generative AI with a New LLM

• 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

• OpenAI Shares Secret Rules Behind ChatGPT Behavior

• Grok AI Starts Summarizing News for X Stories Feature

Generative AI Product Garden 🪴

• GitHub Copilot Workspace Moves Beyond Code Generation

• 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

• Meta Gives Advertisers a Generative AI Production Suite

• SoundHound Inks Deal With Perplexity to Bolster Voice Assistant With Generative AI Search Engine Model

• 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

• Enterprise Generative AI Platform Lamini Raises $25M

• AI Cloud Startup CoreWeave Raises $1.1B as GPU Demand Surges

• FlexAI Raises $30M to Solve Generative AI Chip Shortage

• OpenAI Startup Fund Raises $15M

Generative AI in the World 🌎

• TikTok Starts Automatically Labeling AI-Produced Synthetic Media

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