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No retraining needed: Sakana's new AI model changes how machines learn
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2025 23:57
Sakana found that self-adaptive models can modify their weights during inference to adjust behavior to new and unseen tasks.
Capcom testing generative AI to manage "tens of thousands of ideas"
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2025 22:35
The developers of games like Street Fighter are using generative AI to take the busywork out of development.
Hugging Face shrinks AI vision models to phone-friendly size, slashing computing costs
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2025 22:26
Hugging Face's new SmolVLM models run on smartphones, outperform larger systems and slash computing costs by 300X.
Amplitude Studios unveils Endless Legend 2 turn-based fantasy game
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2025 21:00
Amplitude Studios announced Endless Legend 2, a long-awaited next entry in the award-winning fantasy strategy game series.
Doom: The Dark Ages will supercharge demon kills with a deadly shield saw on May 15
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2025 21:00
Id Software, a division of Microsoft’s Bethesda, unveiled the details of Doom: The Dark Ages, a prequel to Doom 2016 coming on May 15. It’s a big reveal for a game that is the third in a series of modern Doom games �...
Meet OpenAI's Operator, an AI agent that uses the web to book you dinner reservations, order tickets, compile grocery lists and more
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2025 20:57
Instead of relying on specialized APIs, the system uses screenshots for visual input and virtual mouse and keyboard actions to complete tasks.
Platinum Games and Team Ninja reveal Ninja Gaiden 4
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2025 20:32
Platinum Games and Team Ninja announced their new game, Ninja Gaiden 4, at Xbox's January Developer Direct.
Epic Games Store will finally launch third-party mobile games
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2025 20:00
It’s been a long time coming, with a couple of big giant companies standing in the way. But Epic Games announced it will finally be able to release third-party mobile games on the Epic Games Store. It’s been an epic ...
Pipeshift cuts GPU usage for AI inferences 75% with modular interface engine
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2025 19:21
Pipeshift has a Lego-like system that allows teams to configure the right inference stack for their AI workloads, without extensive engineering.
Assassin's Creed: Shadows preview | hands-on combat with both heroes
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2025 19:00
Ubisoft let me preview what may be one of its most important games of all time: Assassin's Creed: Shadows.
Longdue announces crowdfunding for Disco Elysium spiritual successor
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2025 19:00
Longdue, the studio founded with contributors to Disco Elysium and other industry veterans, announced the crowdfunding pre-launch for its debut game, Hopetown. A limited number of registrations for the pre-launch are ava...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art launches Art Links blockchain game
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2025 17:00
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched a short game, Art Links, that invites players to identify common threads among works of art.
Infinite Reality will acquire virtual shopping platform Obsess
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2025 16:30
Infinite Reality, an "immersive technology" company (previously known as the metaverse) has acquired virtual shopping firm Obsess.
Ready Makers Inc. gets restraining order in dispute with Ready Maker (Gibraltar) Ltd.
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2025 15:30
A lawsuit has revealed the dispute between the original investors/leader of Ready Makers Inc. and its division Ready Maker (Gibraltar) Ltd.
Galileo launches 'Agentic Evaluations' to fix AI agent errors before they cost you
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2025 15:00
Galileo launches Agentic Evaluations to help enterprises evaluate and monitor AI agents, securing $68M in funding as companies like Cisco adopt its platform for safer AI deployment.
Surgent Studios partners with Pocketpair for 2025 horror game
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2025 12:09
Surgent Studios, the maker of Tales of Kenzera: Zau, is partnering with Pocketpair Publishing, the newly founded publishing wing of Pocketpair (Palworld, Craftopia) to create a horror game for release in 2025. Surgent co...
Fortnite by the numbers: $342M paid to creators in 2024, with creators tripling to 70,000
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2025 01:40
Epic Games released its first Fortnite ecosystem year in review for 2024, and it has a lot to celebrate.
ByteDance's UI-TARS can take over your computer, outperforms GPT-4o and Claude
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2025 00:58
UI-TARS understands graphical user interfaces (GUIs), applies reasoning and takes autonomous, step-by-step action.
EA's December quarter was weaker as Dragon Age and soccer missed forecasts
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2025 00:55
EA's December quarter was weak because of weaker-than-expected sales of Dragon Age: Veilguard and global football (soccer) games.