Generative AI News This Week - Google Gets is Gen AI Mojo Back, ChatGPT Enterprise Debuts, New Big Funding Rounds, New Products & More

Top generative AI industry news from the week of August 31, 2023

Here is your Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for August 31, 2023. Google may have dominated the headlines this week, but it was hardly alone. Special segments this week include:

• ChatGPT Enterprise - What was announced, where is it headed, and what are the implications? BTW, you may be interested in the Yammer go-to-market strategy reference as point 7 in the main article. We also put ChatGPT Enterprise in perspective alongside Google’s more ambitious play.

• Google Uses Cloud Next to Shift Generative AI Perception - We go through more than 15 different announcements and the implications for the market and debate the merit and importance of different moves.

• Generative AI winners and losers of the week.

This week, Eric Schwartz, Voicebot.ai’s head writer, and I were joined by Google Developer Expert (GDE) Allen Firstenberg to break down the Google Gen AI Palooza and other top generative AI stories. Also, if you’d like to hear more from Allen, check out his Two Voice Devs podcast/YouTube show.

Generative AI News

Links to the stories we covered this week are included below. Like Perplexity AI, we give you source links!

Featured Stories of the Week 🔦

• ChatGPT Enterprise - 7 Things to Know About OpenAI’s Latest Product

• Google Cloud Announced Dozens of Generative AI Solutions and Reveals an Evolving Strategy

• Google Launches Duet AI Assistant for Workspace and Chat

• Google Cloud Unveils New Generative AI Tools for Building Search and Conversation Apps

Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️

• The Story Behind CoreWeave’s Rumored Rise to a $5-$8B Valuation

• Generative AI Infrastructure Startup Modular Raises $100M

• Hugging Face Lands $235M in Funding and a Giant New Valuation

• AI21 Labs Announces $155M Funding Round and Unicorn Valuation

Generative AI Product Garden 🪴

• AI21 Labs Revamps Wordtune into Generative AI Assistant for Enterprises

• Meta’s Code Llama is the New Open Source Alternative to GitHub Copilot

• ConverseNow Embeds ChatGPT and Google Bard LLMs into Restaurant Voice Assistant

• Gupshup Debuts Domain-Specific Generative AI LLMs

• Harman JBL Debuts First Smart Speakers with Simultaneous Alexa and Google Assistant Access (not generative AI, but interesting)

Generative AI in the World 🌏

• GM Taps Google Dialogflow for Onstar Generative AI Plans

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