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 💰⛲️
Generative AI Product Garden 🪴
Microsoft's New Phi-2 Small LLM Shows Strong Benchmark Performance
Snapchat Adds Generative AI Images to Snapchat+ Subscription Service
Meta Expands Generative AI Features to Social Media and Teases Invisible Watermarking
Generative AI in the World 🌏
Google Cloud Will Serve Generative AI to McDonald’s Restaurants
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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Mistral Has $415M in New Funding, a Big Valuation, and a New LLM to Challenge GPT-4
Editor’s Note: Updates were added on December 11 based on newly released company information about the models and an API service. Numerous media outlets report that Mistral has just closed a $415 million funding round at a $2 billion valuation. The company also released its latest large language model (LLM) on Friday by posting a to…
Microsoft's New Phi-2 Small LLM Shows Strong Benchmark Performance
Microsoft is excited about small language models (SLM). The company refers to LLMs below 13B parameters as small large language models (SLM). There is no industry standard for this, but Mistral also calls its new Mixtral 8x7B model small and its 7B model tiny. Regardless, these are all transformer models with a few billion parame…
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