Two Weeks of Generative AI News Highlights - Gemini, Grok, Mistral, Microsoft, and More

From tech giants to startups, products, funding, and other announcements

We have 19 stories from the last two weeks. You can watch the video discussion or read the news through the links below.

Google ranks as our featured story section with the launch of the Gemini LLM and the new AI Studio. Mistral and Microsoft were other big newsmakers with the introduction of small LLMs this past week. And there is a lot on the new product and funding front, the EU AI Act, an OpenAI and news media tie-up, and a lot more.

Eric Schwartz, head writer of Voicebot.ai, joined me to break down the news this week and offer additional context behind the headlines.

Generative AI News

Featured Stories of the Week 🔦

• Google's Gemini LLM Arrives Next Week and It May Just Outperform GPT-4 (sort of)

• Google Gemini Looks Amazing in Video Demos, But Marketing Makes Another Unforced Error

• Google Launches AI Studio for Easy Access to Gemini Generative AI Model

Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️

• Mistral Has $415M in New Funding, a Big Valuation, and a New LLM to Challenge GPT-4

• SoundHound AI Acquires Restaurant Voice AI Startup SYNQ3

• Speech AI Startup AssemblyAI Raises $50M

• Indian Generative AI Startup Sarvam AI Raises $41M

• Business Generative AI Startup Kognitos Raises $20M

• Generative AI Tutoring Startup Kyron Learning Raises $14.6M

• Generative AI Video Startup HeyGen Raises $5.6M

Generative AI Product Garden 🪴

• Microsoft's New Phi-2 Small LLM Shows Strong Benchmark Performance

• Elon Musk Releases Generative AI Chatbot Grok on X

• Snapchat Adds Generative AI Images to Snapchat+ Subscription Service

• Meta Expands Generative AI Features to Social Media and Teases Invisible Watermarking

• Getty Images and Runway Team Up to Build Generative AI Video Model for Businesses That Won’t Spark Lawsuits

Generative AI in the World 🌏

• Google Cloud Will Serve Generative AI to McDonald’s Restaurants

• Mastercard Unveils Generative AI Retail Tool Shopping Muse

• The EU AI Act is Approved but It's Not Done Yet - A Breakdown of Some Interesting Details

• OpenAI Strikes ChatGPT Content Deal with Axel Springer, Publisher of Politico, Insider, and BILD

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