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. Generative AI News Featured Stories of the Week ? 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 Funding Fountain ?⛲️ 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) Generative AI Product Garden ? 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 Generative AI in the World ? 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]