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How Scopely aimed to be a hit company, rather than just a hit game maker | co-CEOs fireside chat
Venture Beat - 29 May 2024 16:30
Co-CEOS Walter Driver and Javier Ferreira spoke with me in a fireside chat about how they designed Scopely.
Supervillain Labs raises funds from Aptos Labs and Neowiz's Intella X
Venture Beat - 29 May 2024 00:00
Supervillain Labs has raised new funding from Aptos Labs and Neowiz's Intella X.
Activision wins $14.4M judgment against Call of Duty cheat vendor
Venture Beat - 29 May 2024 03:57
A federal court awarded a $14.4 million judgment to Activision Publishing in its lawsuit against EngineOwning UG, Garnatz Enterprise.
OpenAI is devouring the media industry
Venture Beat - 29 May 2024 22:46
With so many lining up to voluntarily deal with OpenAI, it's clear where the seat of power lies. And that's not something media companies...
Exclusive: Maven AGI's $28M funding round signals the rise of generative AI in customer support
Venture Beat - 29 May 2024 21:50
Maven AGI raises $28M to transform customer support with generative AI, enabling enterprises to deploy accurate, empathetic AI agents that reduce costs and enhance customer satisfaction.
Mistral announces Codestral, its first programming focused AI model
Venture Beat - 29 May 2024 19:55
The open, non-commercially licensed model specializes in more than 80 languages and already outperforms CodeLlama 70B and Deepseek Coder 33B.
PlayStation's State of Play returns on May 30, includes 14 games
Venture Beat - 29 May 2024 19:52
Sony is holding a 30-minute State of Play on May 30 to show off its PS5 and PS VR2 games coming out later this year.
Maximize open rates and conversions with this customer communication strategy
Venture Beat - 29 May 2024 18:13
Learn how in-app messaging enables a unified experience based on user behavior to maximize open rates and conversions.
The Gayming Awards 2024 airs on June 25, honors icons and rising stars
Venture Beat - 29 May 2024 18:01
The Gayming Awards 2024 announces its air date on June 25. It'll honor the Gayming Icon of the year and up-and-coming queer content creators.
OpenAI partners with The Atlantic and The Verge publisher Vox Media
Venture Beat - 29 May 2024 17:11
OpenAI will also get licensed content and data that it can use to train its large language models (LLMs) and multimedia AI models.
Genies nabs former Netflix Games creative director to run games
Venture Beat - 29 May 2024 15:30
Genies, a maker of social avatars, has hired former Netflix Games creative director Andrew Chambers the head of its games studio.
Play AI raises $4.3M to use AI for 'hyper-personalized gaming'
Venture Beat - 29 May 2024 15:15
Play AI has raised $4.3 million in seed funding round to build the middleware for AI models and agents in gaming.
Amazon Games to publish Maverick's new story-driven driving title
Venture Beat - 29 May 2024 15:00
Amazon Games will publish the upcoming open world narrative-driven driving title from the Forza Horizon veterans behind Maverick Games.
SambaNova breaks Llama 3 speed record with 1,000 tokens per second
Venture Beat - 29 May 2024 14:00
The race to make Llama 3 faster continues as SambaNova accelerates the gen AI model to a new milestone, bringing significant benefits to enterprise users.
PwC strikes OpenAI deal to become the first reseller of ChatGPT Enterprise
Venture Beat - 29 May 2024 11:00
PwC signs partnership with OpenAI to be the first-ever reseller of ChatGPT Enterprise, helping companies use gen AI in a way that drives impact.
SAP adds Amazon Bedrock into AI Core, streamlining generative AI use for regulated firms
Venture Beat - 29 May 2024 09:01
SAP is deepening its AWS partnership, integrating Amazon Bedrock into its AI Core to streamling access for those in regulated firms.
GitHub Accelerator fuels open source AI revolution, empowering startups to democratize access
Venture Beat - 29 May 2024 01:07
GitHub's AI Accelerator ignites open source revolution, empowering startups like Unsloth and Formbricks to democratize access to cutting-edge AI technologies and challenge big tech's dominance in the field.
Gamecity Hamburg funds five digital game prototypes
Venture Beat - 29 May 2024 00:25
Gamecity Hamburg announced it is supporting five game projects in its 2024 funding round with up to 80,000 euros ($86,600).