GenAi News - Huge Announcements From Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, and More.

Enterprise Generative AI has Arrived.

On Monday, I thought the top news story was going to be GM putting ChatGPT in cars. Hahaha. And then ALL the enterprise software companies made huge generative AI announcements.

Microsoft 365 Copilot - Microsoft is rolling out generative AI across Microsoft Office products. Writing and summarizing in Word, generating PowerPoints, doing analysis and generating visualization in Excel, and so on…

Google GenAI Workspaces - Google is announcing (what sounds like) a similar set of features for Google Workspaces. “Draft, reply, summarize, and prioritize your Gmail. Brainstorm, proofread, write, and rewrite in Docs.”

Google PaLM API & MakerSuite - Google has introduced the PaLM API and MakerSuite to make generative AI accessible to developers. The PaLM API provides access to Google's large language models for various applications, while MakerSuite simplifies the development workflow. These tools will be available through a Private Preview, with a waitlist coming soon.

Salesforce Announces Einstein GPT - Salesforce is doing something interesting - they’re going to integrate generative AI to generate emails, schedule meetings, etc. But they also seem to be making Einstein GPT extensible so that customers can plug in proprietary or marketplace AI models.

LinkedIn Generative AI - LinkedIn is expanding its generative AI assistant to help users improve their profiles and assist recruiters in writing job descriptions. The AI-powered writing suggestions are built on advanced GPT models, with GPT-4 used for personalized profiles and GPT-3.5 for job descriptions. The AI prompts for profiles are available for Premium users.

Stripe GPT-4 for Developers - “The first offering will be a way for Stripe's software developers to type out a question and receive summarized answers instead of having to search through developer documentation, Sands said.”

Midjourney V5 is Out - Midjourney has released Version 5 of its AI image-generating algorithm, and it’s way better. It even gets hands right more often than not. Seeing is believing:

Anthropic has a waitlist for Claude - Anthropic introduces Claude, a next-generation AI assistant for tasks like summarization, search, and creative writing. With versions for high-performance and lighter use, Claude is praised for being less harmful and more conversational.

Adept raises $350 million in funding. Adept is developing “action models” - AIs that can do things, like drive the UI of photoshop or Airtable.