Podcast Episode Details

#129 - AI Clippy, lots of AI funding, Ernie 3.5, RoboCat, AI act, Adobe AI indemnity clause

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Episode 167

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Our 129th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
• Tools & Apps
  • (00:05:40) These 'A.I. humans' are letting gamers modify their voices in real time
  • (00:07:48) New Clippy app gives us a taste of AI in Windows 11
  • (00:10:40) ChatGPT on iOS now comes with Bing built-in
• Applications & Business
  • (00:11:50) Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads
  • (00:14:28) AI startups buck funding winter, grow share in ’23
  • (00:18:35) The TSA will use facial recognition in over 400 airports
  • (00:20:18) OpenAI Chooses London for Its First Corporate Office Outside US
  • (00:21:24) Unity shares rise 12% after company announces A.I. marketplace
  • (00:22:40) Fundings 
    • Inflection lands $1.3B investment to build more ‘personal’ AI
    • Runway, a startup building generative AI for content creators, raises $141M
    • Typeface, which is building generative AI for brands, raises $100M at a $1B valuation
    • Celestial AI raises $100M to transfer data using light-based interconnects
    • Gleamer, which provides AI software for radiologists, raises $29.5M
    • Parrot, an AI-powered transcription platform that turns speech into text, raises $11M Series A
  • (00:26:45) Acquisitions
    • Databricks Strikes $1.3 Billion Deal for Generative AI Startup MosaicML
    • Meituan buys

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      Published on 2 years, 5 months ago