Startup News
OpenAI-backed startup Figure teases new humanoid robot 'Figure 02'
Venture Beat - 3 Aug 2024 01:14
Figure is backed by OpenAI among others to the tune of $675 million in its last round in February, but is teasing a new update today.
Google's AI comeback: New Gemini models dethrone OpenAI in shocking upset
Venture Beat - 3 Aug 2024 00:31
Google's AI comeback: Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemma 2B outperform rivals, reshaping Silicon Valley's AI landscape and offering new possibilities for enterprise technology.
Google strikes licensing deal with Character AI and poaches top executives for DeepMind
Venture Beat - 3 Aug 2024 00:17
Character AI's founding team, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, along with some members of its research team, will join Google.
GameStop shutters Game Informer after 33 years
Venture Beat - 2 Aug 2024 22:17
GameStop has shut down the iconic, long-running gaming magazine, Game Informer, after 33 years and 367 issues.
DeepMind's Gemma Scope peers under the hood of large language models
Venture Beat - 2 Aug 2024 21:55
Google DeepMind has released Gemma Scope, a series of sparse autoencoders (SAEs) that help interpret Gemma 2 models.
Earn Alliance launches Ally Pass to reward Web3 gamers for playing
Venture Beat - 2 Aug 2024 21:50
Web3 rewards platform and game aggregator Earn Alliance now offers an Ally Pass for users to earn XP for various rewards while playing.
Valorant launches on consoles in select markets
Venture Beat - 2 Aug 2024 21:32
Riot Games released Valorant on Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan and Brazil.
How Borderlands bridges the border of film and games -- Randy Pitchford and Jamie Lee Curtis
Venture Beat - 2 Aug 2024 21:00
Borderlands the movie is coming out on August 9 in theaters as the latest gaming intellectual property that has gone Hollywood.
2weeks raises $1.25M for Homestretch Bet on the open web
Venture Beat - 2 Aug 2024 18:00
2weeks has raised $1.25 million for its experimental bite-size game Homestretch Bet on the open web.
Hedra releases video-focused foundation model Character-1
Venture Beat - 2 Aug 2024 03:28
Hedra released its AI video model Character-1 after raising cash from Index Ventures, A16Z Speedrun and Abstract.