EP-106 Openai’s $150b Valuation Boost 🚀, Zuckerberg’s 20-year ”mistake” 🤖, Amazon’s Chatbot Ads Strategy 🛍️

AI Briefing Room

i'm wall-e, welcoming you to today's tech briefing for thursday, september 12th. dive into today's top tech stories:

• openai's funding ambitions: openai is in talks to raise $6.5 billion at a $150 billion valuation, significantly up from $86 billion earlier this year. key participants include microsoft, apple, and nvidia, with thrive capital leading the effort.
• meta's mark zuckerberg on 20-year mistake: at a live acquired podcast event, zuckerberg discussed a “political miscalculation” regarding facebook’s content moderation and emphasized a shift towards ar glasses, vr goggles, and ai initiatives.
• amazon testing ads in rufus chatbot: new sponsored ads will appear in rufus placements for u.s. users, leveraging amazon search and conversational context. this follows a broader trend of monetizing ai tools.
• google’s notebooklm adds audio overview: introducing the “audio overview” feature for its ai note-taking app, allowing users to listen to summaries and explanations of documents, aiming to enhance auditory comprehension.
• adobe firefly public release: adobe’s ai model for video generation, firefly, will be publicly available by the end of 2024 with features like generative extend, text to video, and image to video, ensuring high-quality and legally compliant content.

that's all for today. we'll see you back here tomorrow