For you today, we have updates around Google Cloud Next, the LLM announcement gauntlet continues, new funding rounds, and text-to-music apps. This week’s news concludes with a discussion around the shortcomings of autoregressive large language models (LLM) and why the technology is unlikely to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Read the news through the links below and watch my discussion with Eric Schwartz of Voicebot.ai, in which we break it all down via the YouTube video above.

Top Stories of the Week 🔦

• 5 Key Generative AI Announcements from Google Cloud Next

• Generative AI Stars at Google Cloud Next: Here’s The Most Notable News This Year

• Google Showcases New Generative AI Coding Assistants to Take on GitHub Copilot

Generative AI Product Garden 🪴

• Mistral Has a New 176B Parameter LLM and a Number of New Customers

• Mistral AI Floats New Mixtral 8x22B Generative AI Model as Free 281GB Download

• OpenAI Enhances GPT-4 Turbo Model for API and ChatGPT, Including Visual Input

• Cohere Releases Enterprise LLM Command R+ Signs Up With Microsoft Azure to Host

• Tonic.ai Places CustomGPT.ai RAG Above OpenAI

• Poe Rolls Out ‘Price Per Message’ Generative AI Chatbot Monetization

• Stability AI Releases Augmented Text-to-Music Engine Stable Audio 2 With Upload and Style Transfer Features

• Humane Starts Shipping $700 Generative AI Pin

Generative AI Funding Fountain 💰⛲️

• Elon Musk's X.ai in Talks to Raise $3B at a Valuation Matching Anthropic

• Generative AI Music Startup Udio Come Out of Stealth With $10M and Song-Writing App

• Read AI Raises $21M to Apply Generative AI Meeting Summaries to Email and Slack Messages

Generative AI in the World 🌎

• 4 Shortcomings of Large Language Models - Yan LeCun, Research, and AGI