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OpenAI's new hotline: Chat with ChatGPT anytime, anywhere
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2024 23:35
Users can now give ChatGPT a ring and ask questions. (800)-ChatGPT accepts any device that can make calls, even for those without a data plan
Slack is becoming an AI workplace: Here's what that means for your job
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2024 23:14
Slack is evolving from a simple messaging app into an AI-powered workplace platform where digital agents work alongside humans.
GitHub is making its AI programming Copilot free for VS Code developers -- with limits
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2024 22:58
The service leverages advanced AI models, including Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet and OpenAI's GPT-4o, with limits.
U.S. venture capital outlook for 2025 is looking stronger | Pitchbook
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2024 21:30
The outlook for U.S. venture capital investments for 2025 looks relatively stronger than what the market has produced in the past few years.
AI filmmakers take note! Runway launches talent platform to meet, greet, and get hired
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2024 20:10
The new Runway Talent Network is already home to dozens of AI-skilled artists and companies, including Harmony Korine's EDGLRD studio.
The Games Awards 2024 grows 31% to record 154M livestreams
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2024 20:00
The Game Awards announced its 10th anniversary show broke viewership records with an estimated 154 million global livestreams, up 31%.
Sophon launches mainnet blockchain with $500M in locked value
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2024 19:00
Sophon has launched its mainnet, introducing the first-ever Validium on the Avail network.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the year's finest game | review
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2024 18:30
There were 21 Indiana Jones video games. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is finally the One.
Vgames raises $142M for its third fund for gaming
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2024 18:00
Vgames raised $142 million for its third fund to continue investing in talented gaming teams across the world. Led by Eitan Reisel and Daniel Mironov, the fund (which spells its name Vgames) will invest in game studios a...
Simulation Theory raises $2M so computers stop wasting compute resources
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2024 17:00
Simulation Theory, a start-up dedicated to reducing waste by optimizing compute resources, has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding.
IBM wants to be the enterprise LLM king with its new open-source Granite 3.1 models
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2024 17:00
The IBM Granite 3.1 open source models provide 128K context, integrated hallucination protection and accelerated embedding capabilities.
Meta's new BLT architecture replaces tokens to make LLMs more efficient and versatile
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2024 16:48
Byte latent transformer (BLT) uses a special architecture to learn directly from raw bytes as opposed to tokenized chunks of text.
Coplay raises $1.2M to build AI copilot for game devs
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2024 16:00
Coplay, the AI copilot for game developers, today announced it has raised $1.2 million in pre-seed funding.
Agave Games raises $18M in funding to expand Find the Cat mobile title
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2024 00:38
Agave Games is using its latest round of funding to expand its mobile title Find the Cat as well as potentially develop new games.