Startup News
'Uncanny': ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode is blowing minds
Venture Beat - 2 Aug 2024 01:33
Beyond fun and interesting demos and experiments, will it make ChatGPT more useful or appealing to a wider audience?
aiOla drops ultra-fast 'multi-head' speech recognition model, beats OpenAI Whisper
Venture Beat - 2 Aug 2024 01:24
To develop Whisper-Medusa speech recognition model, aiOla modified Whisper's architecture to add a multi-head attention mechanism.
Stable Diffusion creators launch Black Forest Labs, secure $31M for FLUX.1 AI image generator
Venture Beat - 2 Aug 2024 00:52
Black Forest Labs launches FLUX.1, an open-source AI image generation model, securing $31M in funding and challenging industry giants with its innovative approach to accessible, high-quality visual AI.
Arc Games announces multiplayer dungeon adventure Fellowship
Venture Beat - 2 Aug 2024 00:12
Arc Games and Chief Rebel announced their new "MODA" title, Fellowship, with plans for a closed alpha test later this month.
Intel plans to lay off 15% of workforce -- at least 15,000 people
Venture Beat - 2 Aug 2024 00:10
Intel announced that it will lay off 15% of its workforce as part of a broad cost-reduction program.
Whiteout Survival passes $1B in revenue 17 months after launch
Venture Beat - 1 Aug 2024 23:22
Whiteout Survival is the third fastest 2023 mobile release to reach $1 billion in revenue according to Sensor Tower estimates.
Stability AI speeds up 3D image generation with Stable Fast 3D
Venture Beat - 1 Aug 2024 23:01
How fast is fast? It now takes only half a second to generate a 3D image with the power gen AI.
Google Gemini 1.5 Pro leaps ahead in AI race, challenging GPT-4o
Venture Beat - 1 Aug 2024 22:37
Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro revolutionizes AI with top LMSYS scores, outperforming GPT-4 and Claude-3.5, promising transformative impact across industries while raising ethical questions.
Sam Altman: Next OpenAI model will first undergo safety checks by U.S. Government
Venture Beat - 1 Aug 2024 22:03
The CEO also noted that OpenAI remains committed to allocating at least 20% of its computing resources to safety research.
GitHub Models gives developers new power to experiment with Gen AI
Venture Beat - 1 Aug 2024 20:00
GitHub is making it easier for developers to try out and build applications with a series of leading gen AI models in a bid to help accelerate enterprise deployments.
Google Cloud expands gen AI power for database and data analytics tools
Venture Beat - 1 Aug 2024 19:00
Google is bringing Gemini to BigQuery and Looker while expanding the power of the Spanner database for gen AI.
Dstlry raises $5M for digital comics publishing and marketplace
Venture Beat - 1 Aug 2024 17:15
Dstlry said it has raised $5 million for its next-generation comics publisher and digital collectibles business.
Synopsys founder Aart de Geus to receive chip industry's highest honor
Venture Beat - 1 Aug 2024 17:00
Aart de Geus, Synopsys executive chair and founder, will be the 2024 recipient of SIA's highest honor, the Robert N. Noyce Award, the SIA said.
OKX Ventures and Aptos create accelerator and $10M ecosystem fund
Venture Beat - 1 Aug 2024 12:00
OKX Ventures and Aptos Foundation unveiled a $10 million fund to support the growth of the Aptos ecosystem and widespread adoption of Web3.
Inside Amazon's new 'Just Walk Out': AI transformers meets edge computing
Venture Beat - 1 Aug 2024 05:07
We're about to see the new AI-based system Amazon has developed, which uses multi-modal foundation models and transformer-based ML.
Cosmic Bomber is like Bomberman multiplayer meets Web3
Venture Beat - 1 Aug 2024 04:00
Game studio nWay has launched the beta for Cosmic Bomber, a casual multiplayer action game that is akin to Bomberman meets Web3.
Tech giants: AI will transform 92% of ICT jobs; we must upskill now
Venture Beat - 1 Aug 2024 03:43
Google, IBM, Microsoft, SAP and other tech giants say ICT work will be transformed, and we must prepare now.
Biden administration plans to monitor open weight models
Venture Beat - 1 Aug 2024 03:33
The NTIA recommended continued monitoring of open-weight AI models, as AI model developers await potential AI regulations.