Two Weeks of Generative AI News - OpenAI, Meta, Apple, Inworld, Perplexity, and More

Top generative AI industry news from the week of July 27, and August 3, 2023

We have two weeks of the Generative AI News Rundown (GAIN) show for you today. The show went on as planned on July 27th, but we did not get to publish it last week so we are doubling up here. Think of it as links to the top news for two weeks, plus in-depth commentary if you want to go deeper.

GAIN August 3, 2023

Eric Schwartz, the head writer at Voicebot.ai, joined me (Bret Kinsella) to break down the news.

Generative AI News - Featured Stories this Week

• OpenAI rumors spread for GPT-5 and the open-source G3PO. Is this the response to Meta’s Llama 2?

• Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa are both expected to add generative AI capabilities in 2023. Could this finally lead to the blending of doing and knowing assistants?

Generative AI Funding Fountain

• Inworld raised another $50M+ to bring total funding to around $120 million and now claims to have a $500 million valuation.

Generative AI Product Garden

• Meta releases the open-source text-to-sound generator AudioCraft.

• Apple removes over 100 iOS apps from the Chinese App Store in advance of the new generative AI rules taking effect.

• Google Deepmind debuts a new generative AI communication language for instructing robots. And it works!

• Stack Overflow announced tentative steps into generative AI land with OverflowAI.

• News mobile app Artifact introduces celebrity voice clones you can have read the news to you.

Winners and Losers

• We concluded with our generative AI winners and losers of the week.

GAIN July 27, 2023

Eric Schwartz, the head writer at Voicebot.ai, was joined by GAIN producer and Synthedia researcher Andrew Herndon who filled in for me while I was returning from the Unparsed Conversation Design conference in London.

Generative AI News - Featured Stories of the Week

• OpenAI introduces Custom Instructions to add personalization to ChatGPT.

• OpenAI removed its Text Classifier that was supposed to identify whether content was AI-written because it didn’t work. Of course, Turnitin and others still say they can spot AI-written text, but provides no evidence to back up the claims. Synthedia was the first to break this story BTW.

• The ChatGPT App for Android racked up over 1 million downloads in 24 hours, more than a week faster than the iOS app reached that milestone. Synthedia also was the first to break this story 😀.

Generative AI Product Garden

• Perplexity AI adds image search and debuts a Llama 2 integration.

• Stability AI introduces Stable XL 1.0

• Grammarly introduces new generative AI features for students with GrammarlyGo.

• Wayfair introduces generative AI for virtual interior creations

• Frontier Model Forum from OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic seeks to monitor generative AI development.

• AI developers to adopt the White House’s AI Safety Principles

• Generative AI winners and losers of the week.

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