GenAI in News April 2024

LAKSHMI VENKATESH
3 min readMay 12, 2024

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Sections covered in this article

  1. Gen AI Unicorns: This section lists companies valued over $1 billion, including names, valuation details, and notes on their latest funding rounds or financial statuses.
  2. Gen AI Product Launches: Highlights significant product launches from major companies like Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Google, describing new advancements and integrations in generative AI technologies.
  3. Gen AI Startups : Details funding received by startups like Mimbral and Runway, emphasizing the substantial amounts raised and their implications for the industry.
  4. Key Market Trends: Discusses current trends such as increased adaptation, growing interest in AI across regions, and notable shifts like the focus on edge cases and solution development in generative AI.
  5. Gen AI Policies by Countries / regulators: Outlines major regulatory actions and frameworks being implemented in regions like the European Union, China, the United States, and the United Kingdom, focusing on data protection, AI governance, and ethical guidelines.
  6. Job Market: High-level reports on significant job growth in the AI sector, listing major companies hiring extensively in the domain.
  7. New/Improvements/Top of Gen AI Models: Lists leading AI models and their key features or updates, such as GPT-4, DALL-E 2, and others, outlining their capabilities in language services, image generation, and more.
  8. Interesting Papers: Mentions notable academic and industry research papers that contribute to the understanding and advancement of generative AI.
  9. Noteworthy Conferences/Symposiums: Provides information about important upcoming events focused on generative AI, including locations, dates, and focus areas.
  10. Gen AI Leaders: Discusses influential figures and entities in the generative AI space, highlighting their contributions and roles within the industry.
  11. Overlap of Probabilistic Graphical Model (PGM) with Generative AI: Explains how PGMs relate to generative AI, detailing their use in modeling complex distributions and integrating with AI to enhance learning and inference capabilities.

Idea is to continuously capture the dynamic nature of the generative AI landscape, reflecting both the technological advancements and the broader implications for policy, market trends, and the global economy.

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Overlap of Probabilistic Graphical Model (PGM) with Generative AI:

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In April 2024, Steve Nouri organized and led the 1st #GenerativeAI Singapore — a responsible meetup on AI — was held last Friday powered by The Commonwealth AI4Diversity ACM, Association for Computing Machinery in partnership with Oracle, on 3rd May and subsequent stop was the Abu Dhabi AIM Summit, 7th May. Several amazing conversations and was honoured to be part the discussion. Looking forward for more productive conversations in the Generative AI space.

from Steve Nouri’s post.

Image captured during the event

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LAKSHMI VENKATESH
LAKSHMI VENKATESH

Written by LAKSHMI VENKATESH

I learn by Writing; Data, AI, Cloud and Technology. All the views expressed here are my own views and does not represent views of my firm that I work for.

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