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Google releases free Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model, pressuring OpenAI's premium strategy
Venture Beat - 22 Jan 2025 23:47
Google challenges OpenAI with free Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model, offering million-token processing, native code execution, and breakthrough performance in math and science benchmarks.
Unreal Engine superpowers a CG TV show
Venture Beat - 22 Jan 2025 23:38
Unreal Engine, which has been known in its various incarnations as the premiere -- perhaps even de facto -- game engine for over a decade, is already quite familiar to major game developers, especially those with AAA exp...
Founder Ted Price retires from Insomniac Games
Venture Beat - 22 Jan 2025 21:17
Ted Price, the founder and CEO of Insomniac Games, has announced he will retire after more than 30 years with the company on March 2025.
Samsung teases Android XR devices coming later this year
Venture Beat - 22 Jan 2025 20:46
Samsung teased its efforts with multimodal AI and new form factors including smart glasses and extended reality (XR) devices.
DeepMind's new inference-time scaling technique improves planning accuracy in LLMs
Venture Beat - 22 Jan 2025 19:24
With "Mind Evolution" LLMs can use search and genetic algorithms to generate and combine different solutions and find the optimal one.
OpenAI Stargate is a $500B bet: America's AI Manhattan Project or costly dead end?
Venture Beat - 22 Jan 2025 18:38
OpenAI, Oracle, Softbank and MGX are investing a record amount in new AI infrastructure even as China's DeepSeek outperforms on cost.
Flow Specialty launches the 1st AI insurance broker
Venture Beat - 22 Jan 2025 18:00
Flow Specialty, a specialty commercial brokerage, is announcing the industry's first AI insurance broker. The brokerage's platformless AI model has passed RPLU certification exams for the Cyber, Errors & Omissions, and E...
Adam Boyes launches Vivrato consultancy to help manage big game problems
Venture Beat - 22 Jan 2025 16:30
Adam Boyes has launched Vivrato, an advisory company dedicated to forging a more collaborative, sustainable, and thriving gaming future.
How Harness is 'harnessing' agentic AI to help improve enterprise incident response with automated data collection and playbooks
Venture Beat - 22 Jan 2025 16:00
The software development vendor now offers agentic AI-powered incident response that could dramatically minimize downtime.
Funding for gaming startups dropped off in Q4 2024 | Konvoy
Venture Beat - 22 Jan 2025 00:49
Konvoy's latest report shows that funding for gaming-related startups was curiously low in Q4 2024, as were VC deals.
Perplexity launches Sonar API, taking aim at Google and OpenAI with real-time AI search
Venture Beat - 22 Jan 2025 00:31
Perplexity's Sonar is a real-time AI search API challenging Google and OpenAI with disruptive pricing and superior performance.