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Mistral AI drops new open-source model that outperforms GPT-4o Mini with fraction of parameters
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2025 22:22
France's Mistral AI launches efficient open-source model that outperforms Google and OpenAI offerings with just 24 billion parameters, challenging U.S. tech giants' dominance in artificial intelligence.
Gaming luminaries explore industry's struggles and how its best days are still ahead
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2025 19:00
Matthew Ball started a big conversation about the state of the game industry when he launched a 224-slide PowerPoint deck. We continued it.
Inworld AI showcases AI case studies as they move to production
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2025 19:00
While impressive in controlled demos, today's AI technologies expose critical limitations when transitioning to production-ready games.
Visa's AI edge: How RAG-as-a-service and deep learning are strengthening security and speeding up data retrieval
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2025 17:30
Visa has reduced data retrieval from hours to mere minutes and blocked $40 billion in fraud thanks to gen AI tools.
Zynga teams with Fast & Furious for year-long event series in CSR2
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2025 17:00
Zynga, in collaboration with Universal Products & Experiences, is speeding into a year of events bringing Fast & Furious film content into CSR2.
Digital Bandidos wants to be an outlaw publisher that fights for devs | Steve Escalante
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2025 15:45
Digital Bandidos formed last year as an indie game publishing company just as many publishers were going out of business.
Roblox unveils Roblox Cube GenAI and other game dev tools for GDC
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2025 15:30
Roblox introduced its Roblox Cube AI tools, the core generative AI system for building 3D objects and scenes.
GGP announces Collegiate Games Competition with $90K in prizes
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2025 15:30
Gay Gaming Professionals, a nonprofit that cultivates emerging top performers in the video games industry, has created the Collegiate Games Competition to surface new gaming talent. In partnership with Raw Thrills, the a...
GGWP adds voice moderation for Unity's Vivox voice chat and Gorilla Tag
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2025 15:15
GGWP, a brand safety platform for online communities, said its voice moderation tools are being used by Unity's Vivox and Another Axiom.
The Discord Social SDK enables developers to tap into Discord's social infrastructure at no cost
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2025 15:00
Discord, the communications for games company, has launched the Discord Social SDK, a toolkit that enables developers of all sizes to tap into Discord's social infrastructure to drive their game's social and multiplayer ...
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon G Series processors for handheld gaming
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2025 15:00
Qualcomm has launched new versions of the Snapdragon G Series processor to deliver next-level performance for handheld gaming. The next generation of the Snapdragon G Series includes Snapdragon G3 Gen 3, Snapdragon G2 Ge...
Inside Zoom's AI evolution: From basic meeting tools to agentic productivity platform powered by LLMs and SLMs
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2025 15:00
Zoom's CTO explains how the web conferencing vendor's technology has evolved and expanded into agentic AI capabilities.