Mistral shocks AI community as latest open source model eclipses GPT-3.5 performance (venturebeat.com)
Original Mistral AI blog: mistral.ai/news/mixtral-of-experts/
Starbreeze will make DnD co-op game code-named Project Baxter (venturebeat.com)
Why Owen Mahoney stepped down after a decade of success as Nexon’s CEO (venturebeat.com)
Runway’s Gen-2 Update is Blowing People’s Minds with Incredible AI Video (venturebeat.com)
Xbox Game Pass’s November is full of day one launches (venturebeat.com)
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Midjourney, Stability AI and DeviantArt win a victory in copyright case by artists — but the fight continues (venturebeat.com)
Meet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to ‘poison’ AI models with corrupted training data (venturebeat.com)
3D-GPT: converting text into 3D assets (venturebeat.com)
3D-GPT: converting text into 3D assets (venturebeat.com)
It's holodeck time: 3D-GPT (venturebeat.com)
EY and IBM team up on AI to automate HR processes (venturebeat.com)
John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing battle (venturebeat.com)
The news isn’t a surprise as Unity angered a lot of its loyal game developers a few weeks ago after pushing through a price increase based on numbers of downloads — and then retracted it after an uproar.
Over 6,100 gaming jobs have been cut in 2023 (so far) (venturebeat.com)
Like many sectors, game developers have been cutting headcount due to economic uncertainty through out 2023. According to Farhan Noor’s videogamelayoffs.com, game developers issued layoffs to over 6,100 employees in 2023 (so far).
Over 6,100 gaming jobs have been cut in 2023 (so far) (venturebeat.com)
LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers find (venturebeat.com)
LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers find (venturebeat.com)
LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers find (venturebeat.com)
Elon Musk’s Neuralink begins accepting human patients for trials of its brain implant (venturebeat.com)
After Snowflake acquisition, former Neeva CEO says ‘window is shutting’ for AI search disruption (venturebeat.com)
Sridhar Ramaswamy, former CEO of the privacy-focused search engine Neeva, believes the window for AI systems to truly disrupt Google’s dominance in consumer search is closing following Snowflake’s acquisition of Neeva. At Snowflake, Ramaswamy sees more potential in using AI for enterprise applications and knowledge...
How Devolver Digital is taking games seriously — and not so seriously (venturebeat.com)
Generative AI datasets could face a reckoning | The AI Beat (venturebeat.com)
The datasets used to generative AI could face a reckoning — not just in U.S. courts, but in the court of public opinion.
EA’s BioWare will lay off 50 and cut ties with unionized Keywords playtesting group (venturebeat.com)
EA's BioWare will lay off 50 and cut ties with unionized Keywords playtesting group (venturebeat.com)
Neither the layoffs nor breaking ties with a playtesting company that knows their worth in the market sound like they're going to help BioWare make RPGs that can compete with Baldur's Gate 3, formerly a BioWare series.
Microsoft signs 15-year cloud streaming deal with Ubisoft in latest bid to win Activision Blizzard approval (venturebeat.com)
YouTube and Universal Music Group join forces to explore the future of AI music (venturebeat.com)
I can’t wait to see what this horrible duo will accomplish....
