Google once again made our featured story section with an independent benchmark performance analysis of the Gemini Pro LLM compared with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. We go into more depth about the benchmarks and how to interpret the results. Channel 1 says it’s positioned to change the news media with its virtual human avatar-delivered stories and Accenture did a lot of generative AI revenue.

Eric Schwartz, head writer of Voicebot.ai, joined me to break down the news this week and offer additional context behind the headlines.

• CMU Study Shows Gemini Pro Trails GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 in Performance Benchmarks

• Accenture Had $450M in Gen AI Projects Last Quarter, New Deal with McDonald's, But...

• Channel 1 Will Use Generative AI to Hyper-personalize Your News. An AI-Enabled CNN?

• Generative AI Legal and Professional Services Startup Harvey Raises $80M

• OpenAI Startup Fund’s Converge Accelerator Starts Accepting New Applicants

• Anthropic is in Talks for another $750 Million in Funding and a 4.5x Rise in Valuation (we didn’t get to it in the show, but it is a big funding rumor)

• OpenAI Grants Board Veto Power and Forms in Generative AI Safety Advisory Group

• Stability AI Brings Out Image-to-3D and a New Membership Model

• Instagram Rolls Out Generative AI Background Image Editing Tool in the U.S.

• Microsoft Copilot Adds Generative AI Music Engine

• Microsoft and TomTom Unveil Generative AI Car Voice Assistant

• Cerence and Nvidia Debut Automotive Large Language Model CaLLM to Power New Generative AI Features

• Google Cloud Will Serve Generative AI to McDonald’s Restaurants

• Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan Addresses Supporters from Jail Via Deepfake Generative AI Voice Clone [Report]