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Remedy takes Control back from 505 Games for $18M
Venture Beat - 28 Feb 2024 23:49
Remedy Entertainment has bought back the rights for Control and its sequels from 505 Games, including spinoff Condor.
Nvidia, Hugging Face and ServiceNow release new StarCoder2 LLMs for code generation
Venture Beat - 28 Feb 2024 21:41
While it remains to be seen how well StarCoder2 models perform in different coding scenarios, the companies did note that the performance of the smallest 3B model alone matched that of the original 15B StarCoder LLM.
Midjourney rival Ideogram gets $80M in Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz
Venture Beat - 28 Feb 2024 20:48
In addition, Martin Casado, General Partner at a16z, is joining Ideogram's board, and the company today announced Ideogram 1.0.
How Activision designed Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile | Chris Plummer interview
Venture Beat - 28 Feb 2024 20:00
The main task for Activision is building any Call of Duty game is to “not screw it up.” And so the pending March 21 launch of Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile will be a big test for the development ecosystem that the com...
WordPress says VIP customer data won't be shared to AI firms without consent
Venture Beat - 28 Feb 2024 19:44
The wording would seem to imply that only those who pay for the $25,000-per-year Wordpress VIP service are safe from data sharing with AI.
Dopple.ai surpasses leading social networks in average user time spent in-app
Venture Beat - 28 Feb 2024 19:25
Dopple.ai recently surpassed a 55-minute average user time beating out top social networks and video sites' average user times.
How Aria is shaking up influencer marketing
Venture Beat - 28 Feb 2024 19:16
The AI influencer discovery tool, Aria, allows unlimited access to over 200 million profiles completely free.
Willy Wonka Experience Glasgow: a metaphor for the overpromises of AI?
Venture Beat - 28 Feb 2024 18:53
Will users ultimately try AI tools and leave as disappointed as the poor attendees of the miserable world of Wonka Glasgow?
Mattel partners with Zynga's Rollic to make Barbie mobile game
Venture Beat - 28 Feb 2024 18:00
Yes, there is finally a new Barbie game coming, and, no, it's not called Barbenheimer. Zynga's Rollic is making it for Mattel.
Game M&A hit $11.8B in 2023, lowest since 2019 | Quantum Tech Partners
Venture Beat - 28 Feb 2024 16:30
Game industry mergers and acquisitions hit $11.8 billion in 2023, the lowest level since 2019, according to Quantum Tech Partners.
Why Meta's V-JEPA model can be a big deal for real-world AI
Venture Beat - 28 Feb 2024 16:15
V-JEPA uses the same rule of learning through observations, referred to as "self-supervised learning," which means that V-JEPA does not need human-labeled data.
SimplrOps emerges as a silent titan in AI-driven Cloud ERP management
Venture Beat - 28 Feb 2024 16:00
SimplrOps, an innovative AI-driven Cloud ERP solutions provider, achieves remarkable growth and industry disruption by prioritizing customer-centric approaches and advanced technology without venture capital funding.
SambaNova debuts 1 trillion parameter Composition of Experts model for enterprise gen AI
Venture Beat - 28 Feb 2024 16:00
Samba-1 is not a single model, like OpenAI's GPT-4, rather it is a combination of more than 50 high-quality AI models put together in an approach that SambaNova refers to as a Composition of Experts architecture.
OnePlus partners with Hoyoverse on Genshin Impact phone
Venture Beat - 28 Feb 2024 15:00
OnePlus and Hoyoverse have released a Genshin Impact-branded Electro-purple smartphone designed specifically for gaming.
VCs look to AI data centers, local LLMs, and domain models for growth
Venture Beat - 28 Feb 2024 09:49
Pitchbook's analysis shows AI data centers, local large language models (LLMs) and domain-specific foundation models are three of the many growth catalysts VCs need to keep their firms growing and delivering returns.
Jamix emerges with $3M pre-seed and model-agnostic enterprise AI assistant
Venture Beat - 28 Feb 2024 00:05
Jamix's approach is to allow its AI assistant to be integrated into a firm's existing, commonly used workplace software apps.