Two Weeks of Generative AI News - SEO in Crisis, OpenAI Economics, Midjourney, Google, Baidu, NVIDIA & More

Top generative AI industry news from the weeks of October 16th & 23rd

This week’s Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown covers two weeks of news. Eric Schwartz of Voicebot.ai and I jammed in 16 different news stories and a few other tidbits in this double roundup.

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Featured stories this week include:

• OpenAI Economics - OpenAI is generating a lot of revenue from ChatGPT Plus subscriptions and API usage by software providers. However, the popularity of Azure OpenAI Service is siphoning off many of those API customers as they move into production on Azure, which means lower margins for the LLM kings.

• SEO in Crisis? - Generative AI search is about to reap substantial change in the SEO industry, and we consider the analysis of a Texas A&M marketing professor’s warning that the current crop of SEO consultants may be facing extinction.

• Foundation Models and Transparency - Stanford researchers have a new 100-point generative AI model transparency checklist. We consider the good, the bad, and the ugly of this endeavor.

• Generative AI winners and losers of the week.

Generative AI News

Links to the stories we covered this week are included below.

Featured Stories of the Week 🔦

• The Implication of OpenAI's False Start on Arrakis

• Will Generative AI Search Kill Traditional Search and SEO at the Same Time?

• Measuring Foundation Model Transparency

Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️

• Luiza Nets $10M in Funding for Generative AI Assistant That Lives in WhatsApp and Telegram

• AI Efficiency Startup CentML Raises $27M

• Deepfake Generative AI Detection Startup Reality Defender Raises $15M

• Generative AI Music Startup Riffusion Raises $4M

Generative AI Product Garden 🪴

• Midjourney’s First Generative AI Art Mobile App is (Almost) All Anime, All the Time

• Google Adds Broad Generative AI Indemnity, But You Might Want to Note the Exceptions

• Google Search Rolls Out AI-Powered Speaking Practice for Language Learners

• Google Search Generative Experience will Create Images and Provide Writing Assistance. Is This Bard?

• Baidu Rolls Out Ernie 4.0 Generative AI Model Rivaling GPT-4

• Generative AI is the Star of Qualcomm’s Next-Gen Chips

• Deutsche Telekom and SK Telecom Team Up to Build Customer Service LLM

• Nvidia Leverages GPT-4 for New Robot-Training AI Agent

Generative AI in the World 🌏

• NYC Mayor Adams Uses AI Voice Clone for Multilingual Robocalls

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