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ChatGPT Gets Voice & Image Input, Microsoft Copilot for Windows 11 Launches, More

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September 29, 2023

TOP BYTE: OpenAI Launches Voice & Image Input, Eyes AI Device for Future

This has been a big week for OpenAI: It started rolling out "multimodal" input—i.e., image input and voice input—for ChatGPT Plus users. If it works well, the technology should significantly increase both the ease of use and use cases for ChatGPT. Expect many exciting examples (and some faked for hype/followers) over the next few weeks. Of course, we'll showcase many of the best ones here.

But that's not all for OpenAI this week. There's also word that OpenAI is collaborating with the founder of Interscope Records and renowned entrepreneur Jimmy Iovine on creating some sort of an "AI device" (that's truly all the detail we have right now), and they're looking to raise about $10 billion for it.

And The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI is seeking a valuation of up to $90 billion in an upcoming share sale.

OpenAI also announced that you can, once again, browse the Web within ChatGPT. While the announcement made it seem like a bigger deal than it is (at least in this reporter's honest opinion), what the company really did was simply add a Bing 4 Chat as a beta mode in OpenAI.

And that's just OpenAI's news from the past week; other companies made major moves as well. Highlights below.

More Generative AI News This Week

  • Microsoft Copilot for Windows 11 (there are other Copilots rolling out, including for Teams) went into wide distribution this week, with many Windows 11 users (both corporate and personal license) seeing a new, colorful "Copilot" (preview) appear on their taskbar and a Bing-style chatbot appear on the right of their screen when they click it. You can use it to query Bing AI or do help with some computer issues. If your IT department (or anyone else) needs a detailed breakdown of what Windows 11 Copilot can/can't do, point them to this informative two part article series.

  • Microsoft also revealed ways the Mayo Clinic is using the beta version of its upcoming Microsoft 365 Copilot suite of tools.

  • Amazon Web Services staked its place in the generative AI tool world this past week with the general availability release of Bedrock, its HIPPA- and GDPR-compliant competitor to Microsoft's secure, enterprise Azure OpenAI Services (although Bedrock is an open LLM platform where you can choose any model to run inside). It also unveiled new AI-driven visibility tools and a new foundational LLM of its own creation, dubbed Titan, while announcing a $4 billion investment in Anthropic, the creator of ChatGPT competitor Claude.

  • IBM is the latest AI service provider to announce it will absorb legal risks for corporate users of their products.

  • Walmart appears to be determined to leverage generative AI technology. Following an announcement last month, as  reported by Axios' Ina Fried,, that it has given 50,000 employees access to internal generative AI tools, the company held a briefing with reporters this week to showcase three ways it's utilizing GenAI technology in its operations: an AI-driven custom shopping assistant, a graphic tool that converts photos into 3D renderings, and the application of AI technologies in its internal 3D item generation process.

Quote of the Week

"As we explore the use of AI, we must constantly communicate and reaffirm that these tools are not being used to replace but to supplement and help employees."

-Rob Enderle, Principal Analyst, the Enderle Group, from the article, "The AI Problem We’re Not Taking Seriously Enough"

Resource Corner: 5 Generative AI Resources for HR

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