Generative AI News This Week - ChatGPT Turns 1, Anthropic's and Inflection's New Models, SoapBox Labs Acquired, Amazon Q & More - Voicebot Podcast 365

To say November closed with a flurry of generative AI news is a severe understatement. OpenAI almost melted down pulled it back together, and then we had a birthday for a little product called ChatGPT. Nearly every OpenAI competitor attempted to seize on the company’s turmoil and ramped up their visibility for sales, product announcements, or fundraising. Amazon released a slate of new announcements at the AWS re-invent conference. NVIDIA’s quarterly revenue looks like a vertical line. And that’s not all.

Eric Schwartz, head writer of Voicebot.ai, and I break down the news once again this week and hopefully offer a little perspective on the story behind the story.

Generative AI News

Featured Stories of the Week 🔦

• ChatGPT Turns 1 - The chat assistant became the catalyst for a year of change.

  • ChatGPT Turns 1 - Timeline of a Remarkable First Year and its Impact on Industry and Society

• Other OpenAI News - The company was in the news for a few other reasons, too!

  • Timeline of the 106-Hour OpenAI Saga, Altman Will Return, New Board Formed

  • OpenAI Agrees in Principle to Sam Altman's Return as CEO, But this is Far From Over

  • What is OpenAI's Q*? How Aligned Incentives are Fueling a Questionable Narrative.

  • Doesn't OpenAI Board Member Adam D'Angelo Have a Conflict of Interest in Ongoing Dispute?

• Generative AI winners and losers of the week

Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️

• NVIDIA Blows Out Revenue Figures as Generative AI Drives Growth

• Generative AI Startup AI21 Labs Adds $53M to Earlier $155M Funding Round

• Voice AI for Kids Startup SoapBox Labs Acquired by Edtech Firm Curriculum Associates

• Generative AI Video Startup Pika Raises $35M

• Stable Diffusion Synthetic Media Hub Civitai Raises $5.1M

Generative AI Product Garden 🪴

• Anthropic's Claude 2.1 LLM Has a 200K Context Window, API Tools and Poses a New Challenge to OpenAI

• Inflection AI Announces Inflection-2 LLM with Significantly Improved Performance

• What is Amazon PartyRock and How Did AWS Launch a Marketplace Before OpenAI's GPTs?