Recent Developer Conferences - State of the GenAI Union

Hi everyone, over the weekend I have finally found the time to start watching the recent developer conferences. I would like to share my ideas, and ask you for your ideas and clarifications

First of all, the famous Open AI conference that has happened already a while ago. (November 6)

OpenAI DevDay, Opening Keynote

I noticed that I have somehow missed a couple of details like the fact that GPTs not only store data (RAG) but can also take actions.

Second, the keynote of the Microsoft CEO at the Ignite 2023 (November 14)

Full Keynote: Satya Nadella at Microsoft Ignite 2023

A lot of important points, some hardware news, but on the GenAI side mostly the new tools:

Azure AI Studio (full LLM development environment https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-studio - will just like Bedrock also allow the use of open source models. afaik Azure OpenAI is 100% focused on OpenAI FM.)

Copilot Studio (Customize the Microsoft365 copilot https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/microsoft-copilot-studio)

Cooperation with Mistral

Something about a NVidia AI Factory, that I did not quite understand

Third, the presentations at the AWS re-invent (November 27)

There are a couple of keynote speeches, I have not had the time to wathc them, no idea which is the most interesting and important one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMfn9_nTDbM

https://youtu.be/UTRBVPvzt9w?si=d7IOJY7lqaAE95Ac

AWS re:Invent 2023 - Keynote with Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian

in any case the big GenAI news is: afaik the presentation of Q, something like ChatGPT from Amazon apparently

Here a summary, from a website:

https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/aws-reinvent-2023-recap/

please add on important points that I have missed

Has anyone else also looked at these developments, or was there even a thread about it already?

Which announcements do you find most interesting? And what is your position on the opensource vs. prorietary divide? (an interesting video about OpenGPT vs Open Assistant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT1ExvoBmsk)

Final note from my side: with Microsoft Copilot, i.e. the integration of OpenAI and Azure in Microsoft365 Microsoft will definitely have a huge leverage in the coming AI race.

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