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Mistral Small 3 brings open-source AI to the masses -- smaller, faster and cheaper
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2025 20:05
French AI startup Mistral unveils a breakthrough 24B parameter language model that matches the performance of models three times its size, challenging tech giants with faster speeds and lower computing costs while target...
Cerebras becomes the world's fastest host for DeepSeek R1, outpacing Nvidia GPUs by 57x
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2025 19:00
Cerebras Systems launches DeepSeek's R1-70B AI model on its wafer-scale processor, delivering 57x faster speeds than GPU solutions and challenging Nvidia's AI chip dominance with U.S.-based inference processing.
USC's 9th games expo returns May 13 with 60 games
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2025 19:00
USC Games announced its 9th annual USC Games Expo will return to USC's campus on May 13 with more than 60 student games.
Moonray blockchain game will debut on Xbox and PS5 in 2025
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2025 17:00
Moonray Studios said its blockchain game Moonray will debut on both Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 launch later this year.
Gaming M&A and financing deals grew 39% in 2024 | Drake Star
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2025 17:00
Gaming mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and financings in 2024 grew 39% to $27.3 billion in disclosed deal value across over 967 transactions, according to a report by Drake Star Partners. That’s a glimmer of bright news...
Riffusion's free AI music platform could be the Spotify of the future
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2025 17:00
Riffusion launches a free AI music generation platform that creates original songs from text and audio prompts, challenging tech giants with personalized learning features and backing from The Chainsmokers.
Blue Dot Games brings '83 multiplayer shooter back from the dead
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2025 16:30
Blue Dot Games is reviving ’83, a multiplayer shooter game set in the midst of the Cold War, after a previous publisher canceled the game. Now the studio said it has raised partial funding for its ’83 title, thanks t...
These Yale and Berkeley dropouts just raised $2 million to build an AI assistant that could rival OpenAI
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2025 16:01
Y Combinator-backed startup Martin AI secures $2M seed funding to challenge Siri and Google with its innovative personal AI assistant, built by 19-year-old founders to revolutionize how consumers interact with AI through...
Maingear unveils Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 series desktop gaming PCs and workstations
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2025 16:00
Maingear unveiled its custom-configurable Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 Series gaming desktops, featuring the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 GPUs.
Little Umbrella makes the funding rain after success of Death by AI social game
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2025 16:00
Little Umbrella, an emerging pioneer in AI-powered social games, has raised $2 million in funding after the success of its Death by AI social game.
Omnitron Sensors' MEMS could rid us of the spinning tops on self-driving cars (and lower costs too)
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2025 13:08
Omnitron Sensors, which makes MEMS sensor chips, has raised $13 million to create inexpensive sensors for self-driving cars.
DeepSeek helps speed up threat detection while raising national security concerns
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2025 03:41
DeepSeek and its R1 model aren't wasting any time rewriting the rules of cybersecurity AI in real-time. Enterprises can't ignore this risk.
Dario Amodei challenges DeepSeek's $6 million AI narrative: What Anthropic thinks about China's latest AI move
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2025 02:34
Amodei says the breakthrough actually cost billions, emphasizing that AI development remains resource-intensive despite engineering gains.
U.S. Copyright Office says AI generated content can be copyrighted -- if a human contributes to or edits it
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2025 00:18
AI filmmakers and creatives applauded the move -- welcoming the opportunity to receive copyright protections on their work.