Daily GenAI News Briefing

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With the tremendous change in GenAI innovation, AI Leaders and investors have trouble keeping up with current news.

We are in beta testing daily GenAI Executive Briefing service that curates and ranks news.  Each workday, our AI Analysts discuss and rate the top enterprise GenAI news. Each article is rated Essential, Important, or Optional for executives and investors.  Click here to watch the discussion on YouTube.    

Date # Headline Rating Rating Rationale

Jan 19

   BMW will deploy Figure’s humanoid robot at South Carolina plant
Video 		    

Jan 19

   Mark Zuckerberg just posted on his IG hinting at open source AGI with FAIR and GenAI research coming together.

Meta re-org		    

Jan 19

   OpenAI partners with Arizona State University to use ChatGPT in classrooms    

Jan 19

   The Rabbit R1 will receive live info from Perplexity’s AI ‘answer engine’    

Jan 19

   5 Ways Financial Services Harness Generative AI in Asia    

Jan 19

   Can Recraft’s foundational model for graphic design swerve the AI controversy?    
Jan 19   DigitalOcean wants to open the floodgates to AI for smaller enterprises with Nvidia H100 access    

Jan 18

   AI models that don’t violate copyright are getting a new certification label    

Jan 18

   Samsung’s Galaxy S24 and AI event: all the news    

Jan 18

   POLITICO Launches AI-generated Bill Summaries Available to POLITICO Pro Subscribers    

Jan 18

   Vicarius lands $30M for its AI-powered vulnerability detection tools    
Jan 18   NTT DOCOMO uses AI to generate metaverse NPCs    
Jan 18   Pecan AI Introduces Predictive GenAI to Transform Enterprise AI Efforts    
Jan 18   AlphaGeometry: an AI system that solves Olympiad geometry problems at a level approaching a human gold-medalist    

 Jan 15

   Wells Fargo’s assistant, powered by Google’s AI, poised to hit 100 million interactions annually    

 Jan 15

   Anthropic researchers find that AI models can be trained to deceive    
 Jan 15   OPENAI QUIETLY DELETES BAN ON USING CHATGPT FOR “MILITARY AND WARFARE”    
 Jan 15   Execs eager to implement generative AI, but few know how    
 Jan 15   Hackers Break into AI Hiring Chatbot, Could Hire and Reject Fast Food Applicants    
 Jan 15   Taylor Swift fans scammed by AI-generated Le Creuset endorsements    

Jan 12

   HOW PUBLICIS USED AI TO CREATE PERSONALIZED VIDEOS FOR ITS 100,000 EMPLOYEES    

Jan 12

   Generative AI in the pharmaceutical industry: Moving from hype to reality    
Jan 12   1X, robotic startup backed by OpenAI, receives $100M in funding    
Jan 12   Google Deepmind presents Towards Conversational Diagnostic AI    
Jan 12   IBM Collaborates with SAP To Develop New AI Solutions for the Consumer Packaged Goods and Retail Industries    
Jan 12   Generative AI isn’t a home run in the enterprise    
Jan 12   Prepare for AI-powered 'agent ecosystems' that will dominate tomorrow's services    
Jan 5   OpenAI’s news publisher deals reportedly top out at $5 million a year Optional  
Jan 5   ChatGPT could soon replace Google Assistant on your Android phone Optional  
Jan 5   CubbyApp for market research Optional  
Jan 5   Google outlines new methods for training robots with video and large language models Important training for physical robots continues to make massive progress. suggesting that executives can expect more deployed robots in 2024
Jan 5   Exclusive: Databricks research confirms that Intel’s Gaudi bests Nvidia on price performance for AI accelerators Optional  
Jan 5   OpenAI’s app store for GPTs will launch next week Important Apple and Android stores were transformative and this could be the same.  Not enterprise class yet, but companies need to monitor customers, and employees will likely be creating these.
Jan 5   AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI, now valued at $520M, raises $73.6M Optional  
Jan 4 1 Intel spins out a new enterprise-focused GenAI software company Optional spinouts are common. no production product yet
Jan 4 2 Uncovering AI-Generated Email Attacks: Real-World Examples from 2023 Optional security is always important
Jan 4 3 Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection  Optional optional,  standard list
Jan 4 4 Stanford introduces Mobile Aloha Optional  in lab only
Jan 4 5 JP Morgan introduces DocLLM  Essential  another example of a dramatic use case in finance 
 Jan 3 1 First Ever AI Solution to Integrate Drug Discovery and Synthesis Essential revolutionizes drug discovery; significant industry impact.
 Jan 3 2 How Did Companies Use Generative AI in 2023? Here’s a Look at Five Early Adopters Essential provides vital insights on AI adoption and strategies.
Jan 3 3 OpenAI moves to shrink regulatory risk in EU around data privacy Optional  standard vendor playbook to meet EU data regulations. not news
Jan 3 4 Sports Data Labs, Inc. Announces Issuance of New U.S. Patent Covering its Novel Generative AI-Based Method for Creating Synthetic Data to Replace Missing and Outlier Data Values Essential a granted patent for any MISSING data sets. could have profound impacts. Could key data get locked up by patents in your industry?
Jan 3 5 Open-Source Generative AI Model Startup Replicate Raises $40M Important Nvidia is heading its bets by supporting small cloud providers who are not getting into chips
Jan 2 1 8 top generative AI tool categories for 2024 Important  a good basic list of tools for GenAI (not individual productivity). a short article.  good ROI on time. 
Jan 2 2 Artificial intelligence lowers the barrier to ultrasonic brain treatment Important   brain surgery applications moving to production. stunning
Jan 2 3 How 4 EHR Vendors Are Leveraging Generative AI in Clinical Workflows  Optional like all software companies are adding this
Jan 2 4 BEWARE OF BOTSHIT: HOW TO MANAGE THE EPISTEMIC RISKS OF GENERATIVE CHATBOTS   Optional research paper, not important for executives 
Jan 2 5 GitHub makes Copilot Chat generally available, letting devs ask questions about code  Optional incremental feature improvement, as expected
Dec 29 1 Insilico Medicine develops new AI-generated FGFR2/3 inhibitor for tissue-agnostic solid tumors Essential  essential for Life Sciences but other execs need to understand how to use industry-specific data for transformative new products
Dec 29 2 17 incredible real-life humanoid robot demos Essential  a great summary. worth a 2 min skim to understand huge advances in physical robots
Dec 29 3 Nvidia to release special chip for China, subverts US export controls  Optional every company tries to get around export controls
Dec 29 4 Bain& Company makes pioneering deployments of state-of-the-art AI tools
worldwide		 Essential  breadth and # of use cases are impressive for a large global company
Dec 29 5 Giga ML wants to help companies deploy LLMs offline Optional  another company working on AI
Dec 29 6 6 Ways Coca-Cola Uses Generative AI For Advertising And Marketing Essential   another example of "big, elephant companies dancing". Coke leading (where is Pepsi?). Who will be GenAI leader in your industry?
Dec 28 1 The New York Times wants OpenAI and Microsoft to pay for training data Optional a likely negotiation move by NYT for fees
Dec 28 2 NEC unveils AI strategy, aims to
revolutionise industries with generative AI		 Optional  intent only.   All vendors have GenAI intent
Dec 28 3 Bytedance Announces DiffPortrait3D Optional  just catching up with other vendors
Dec 28 4 From Reservations to Ordering, Gen
AI Took Over Restaurants in 2023		 Essential  this shows the breadth of GenAI uses cases in operationally intense environments.   AI Leaders with high labor turn need to understand these use cases.
Dec 28 5 How beauty brands plan to embrace
consumer-facing AI in 2024		 Important  a good example of how major brands are using GenAI to answer product questions and engage customers.   This is be major trend in 2024
Dec 28 6 Chinese VC and AI Founder Predicts
Shakeout in China’s AI Sector		 Optional  Commentary only
Dec 27 1 Microsoft Copilot is now available as a ChatGPT-like app on Android Optional   
Dec 27 2 Anthropic forecasts more than $850 mln in annualised revenue rate by 2024-end Optional   
Dec 27 3 Macros Reply Launches the New Framework for Automated and Intelligent Input Management with Generative AI Optional  
Dec 27 4 DataStax Unveils SwiftieGPT: A Taylor Swift-Inspired Chatbot Powered by Generative AI Important AI executives must comprehend the rapid increase in digital avatars and robots. Within the next two years, the internet will see millions of AI-generated blog posts and similar content. However, distribution is still important. Both digital and human influencers retain significant influence due to the ongoing importance of distribution channels.
Dec 27 5 Introducing ReByte.ai, an idea-to-GenAI app platform, where AI agents do the hard work  Optional  
Dec 26 1 Law Firm Allen & Overy Debuts AI Contract Negotiation Tool Important The biggest advantage is frees up executives for strategic.  Went from unheard of to industry redefining in 6 months.  Every industry needs to ask where the Harvey is in their industry
Dec 26 2 Google Might Lay Off 30,000 Employees Due To AI; Report Offers Alarming Insights Optional  
Dec 26 3 Apple Explores A.I. Deals With News Publishers Optional  
Dec 26 4 HD Hyundai Partners with Google Cloud for AI Advancements Optional  
Dec 26 5 Inference Race To The Bottom - Make It Up On Volume? Optional  
Dec 26 6 Introducing SAM – A 7B Small Agentic Model that outperforms GPT-3.5 and Orca on reasoning benchmarks Optional  
 

 

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