Generative AI News This Week - OpenAI Hegemony, Copilots Everywhere, Unity, Picsart, Symphony AI and More

Top generative AI industry news from the week of November 17th

Here is your November 17th edition of the Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown. This week continues the theme of market shift. Satya Nadella correctly aligned with the generative AI zeitgeist in focusing on practical applications of the technology. Individuals and companies have moved past bewilderment and wonder and now want to begin implementing and adopting solutions that offer tangible value.

Eric Schwartz, head writer of Voicebot.ai, joined me this week to break down the news onslaught from Microsoft, more maneuvring from OpenAI, and a few other announcements.

Generative AI News

Featured Stories of the Week 🔦

• Copilots Everywhere - Microsoft’s Ignite conference showcased a number of working productivity solutions for generative AI along with foundation models and other services.

  • Microsoft Copilots Everywhere, A Bing Chat Facelift, and the Shift to Practical Applications

  • Microsoft Unveils Expanded Copilot Generative AI for Business Apps and Roles

  • Azure OpenAI Service Breakdown: GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Use Cases, Users, and Trends

  • How GPT-4 Was Transformed Into Generative AI Search in Bing Chat

• OpenAI Hegemony - abc

  • OpenAI Has Halted ChatGPT Plus Subscriptions Due to Surging Demand - Join GPTs Demo Event Today

  • GPT Showcase - Deep Dive, Demos, and Data

  • OpenAI's Bid to Become a Data Titan - Distilling the 4-Pronged Generative AI Data Strategy

• Generative AI winners and losers of the week

Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️

• Clinical Generative AI Startup Startup Layer Health Raises $4M

Generative AI Product Garden 🪴

• OpenGPT is LangChain's Open-Source Answer to OpenAI's GPTs

• You.com Launches Search APIs Giving Generative AI Chatbots Real-Time Web Access

• Unity Muse - Generative AI Tools for Game Makers

• SymphonyAI Rolls Out Generative AI Industrial Copilots to Enhance Manufacturing Productivity

• Picsart Debuts Generative AI Tools to Create and Manipulate Synthetic Images and Videos

• Google Cloud Deepens Anthropic Partnership as Generative AI Tug-of-War With AWS Intensifies

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