Enterprise ISV Generative AI Announcements (and Rumors)
The generative AI features and products coming from Big Software
Last updated - 2/5/2023 - Lots of new announcements and rumors about Microsoft, Google writes a $300 million check, LivePerson to update offerings with OpenAI partnership.
I’ll keep this updated as announcements roll out, so feel free to bookmark. Companies listed in alphabetical order.
Adobe
Jan 17, 2023 - Adobe Stock - While not a tool, per se, Adobe Stock is now letting creatives upload AI generated images to its stock photo library. By spending $40 on Midjourney, I, personally, have been able to sell $0.53 of stock photography.
Older News:
Oct 21, 2022 - Adobe Creative Suite - Adobe is investing heavily into AI generative tools for its creative suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) Too many to list individually.
Feb 6, 2023 - Google announces ChatGPT rival Bard, with wider availability in ‘coming weeks’
Feb 3, 2023 - Google invests in Anthropic - Google has invested $300 million in Anthropic - a firm founded by former OpenAI researchers. Anthropic has an ChatGPT competitor known as “Claude”.
Hubspot
Older News:
Date unknown - Jasper Partnership - AFAIK, HubSpot hasn’t announced any of their own generative AI tools (they do have some “generators”, like the blog ideas generator, and the marketing plan generator.) However, they seem to be producing a lot of thought leadership for marketers that want to use generative AI, and have partnered with first movers in the space, like Jasper.
LivePerson
Feb 1, 2023 - LivePerson - LivePerson has been providing AI chatbots for customer support (and other use cases) for a while. They’ve announced that they’re enhancing a number of their services through a partnership with OpenAI
Microsoft
Feb 9, 2023 - Microsoft will let companies roll their own ChatGPT trained on their own company data.
Feb 7, 2023 - BingGPT - Microsoft has announced that Bing is being enhanced with GPT functionality. Go to bing.com and join the waitlist.
Feb 2, 2023 - Viva Sales - Uses GPT to generate suggested email content for sellers.
Feb 1, 2023 - Teams Premium - Microsoft has launched Teams Premium, with GPT-3.5 features that include intelligent recap, AI generated chapters, and timeline markers.
Jan 18, 2022 - Azure OpenAI - Microsoft provides access to OpenAI models through Azure.
Salesforce
Older News:
March 29, 2022 - CodeGen - A text to code generator. It’s not as user friendly as ChatGPT (there’s a research paper and a GitHub repo, but not a hosted sandbox).
What’d I miss? If you come across an announcement, let me know and I’ll add it to the list. Thanks for reading!
About the Author: Scott Swigart is the Chief Research Officer at Cascade Insights, a firm providing technology, buyer, and strategy research for B2B technology companies.