Month: February 2023

Startups hoping to raise a nine-figure round in the future had best temper their ambition; venture funding events worth $100 million or more are going extinct — quickly. A few years back, nine-figure venture funding events were common. So much so that during my Crunchbase News days, we started to call them “supergiant” rounds to
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OpenAI is quietly launching a new developer platform that lets customers run the company’s newer machine learning models, like GPT-3.5, on dedicated capacity. In screenshots of documentation published to Twitter by users with early access, OpenAI describes the forthcoming offering, called Foundry, as “designed for cutting-edge customers running larger workloads.” “[Foundry allows] inference at scale
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Microsoft said it’s expanding the lengths of chats people can have with the test version of its Bing AI, while the company’s also begun testing different “tone” personalities for more precise or more creative responses. The company’s moves follow efforts to restrict access to the technology after media coverage of the artificial intelligence chatting app going
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Microsoft’s Xbox PC games are headed to Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service.  Microsoft President Brad Smith spoke at a press conference Tuesday about bringing over his company’s PC games to Nvidia’s platform. Smith was in Brussels to meet with European Union officials to convince them to approve Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
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Wild Hearts, developed by Koei Tecmo’s Omega Force and published by EA, tries its best to take the monster-hunting genre crown from Capcom’s long-running franchise, Monster Hunter. The problem is it copies Capcom’s homework a bit too much.  Despite fast action and a stacked variety of enemies, Wild Hearts is a carbon copy so blatant
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This is a story about a lot of things. First and foremost it’s a story about Duolingo. That’s obvious. That’s in the headline. But it’s really a story about doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons.  It’s also a story about how gamification can rapidly transform one thing into another thing. And it’s most
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