Startup News
Investors call Intuit bullish; VB calls Intuit and its AI strategy a highlight of VB Transform 2024
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 21:53
Learn why Intuit is such a good example of how to really put generative AI to work at this year's VB Transform.
Meta AI develops compact language model for mobile devices
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 23:49
Key innovations in Meta's MobileLLM include prioritizing model depth over width, implementing embedding sharing and grouped-query attention and utilizing a novel immediate block-wise weight-sharing technique.
LockBit's latest attack shows why fintech needs more zero trust
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 23:40
LockBit claiming to have breached the U.S. Treasury and, instead, exfiltrated customer data from a bank is a common deception strategy.
Gamescom Latam grew to 100K visitors, 124 exhibitors from 66 countries
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 23:03
Gamescom Latam (combined with the BIG Festival) grew to more than 100,000 visitors for its gaming expo in São Paulo, Brazil.
Zenless Zone Zero passes 50M global downloads in 72 hours
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 23:00
Hoyoverse's latest RPG, Zenless Zone Zero, reached 50M global downloads but failed to generate the same revenue at launch as its predecessors.
Hebbia nets $130M to build the go-to AI platform for knowledge retrieval
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 22:57
Hebbia has 1000+ use cases in production with organizations like CharlesBank, Center View Partners and the U.S. Air Force.
Groq unveils lightning-fast LLM engine; developer base rockets past 280K in 4 months
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 21:55
Groq now allows you to make lightning fast queries and perform other tasks with leading large language models (LLMs) directly on its web site. On the tests I did, Groq replied at around 1256.54 tokens per second, a speed...
SGDQ 2024 fundraised $2.5M despite declining viewership
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 21:00
Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) 2024 raised $2.5M for Doctors Without Borders despite declining viewership since 2017.
At VB Transform: Perplexity CBO on factfulness, plagiarism and how AI (and Perplexity) are aiming to rewrite the unwritten rules
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 19:48
Perplexity offers an "answer" engine that makes search so simple, while publishers say it's just stealing content. What's the real story?
Open-TeleVision: Why human intelligence could be the key to next-gen robotic automation
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 18:00
Last week, researchers at MIT and UCSD unveiled a new immersive remote control experience for robots. This innovative system, dubbed “Open-TeleVision,” enables operators to actively perceive the robot’s surrounding...
Amir Satvat forecasts 4,463 more game workers will be laid off in 2024, but rate is slowing
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 15:30
Game job aggregator Amir Satvat estimated 4,463 additional people will be laid off in 2024, but he noted the rate of layoffs is slowing.
Applied Materials reveals chip wiring innovations for energy-efficient computing
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 13:30
Applied Materials has revealed chip wiring innovations that will address challenges for energy-efficient computing.
Whataburger launches branded Fortnite map and tournament
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 11:00
Whataburger has launched its own branded map in Fortnite, with a $25,000 Fortnite tournament coming later this month.