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To combat GPU shortage for generative AI, startup works to optimize ...
venturebeat.com > ai...Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success.... ...The Toronto-based company aims to help address the worldwide shortage of GPUs for training and inference of generative AI models.... ...Co-founder and CEO Gennady Pekhimenko, a leading systems architect, told VentureBeat in an interview that when he saw the trajectory of the size... ...Join us in San Francisco on July 11-12, where top executives will share how they have integrated and optimized AI investments for success and avoided...

To combat GPU shortage for generative AI, startup works to optimize hardware
venturebeat.com > ai...The Toronto-based company aims to help address the worldwide shortage of GPUs for training and inference of generative AI models.... ...Co-founder and CEO Gennady Pekhimenko, a leading systems architect, told VentureBeat in an interview that when he saw the trajectory of the size... ...CentML raised a $3.5 million seed round in 2022 led AI-focused Radical Ventures....

OpenAI rival Cohere raises a fresh $270 million to bring generative AI to the enterprise
venturebeat.com > ai...The Toronto-based company just announced $270 million in a Series C round of funding led by Inovia with participation from NVIDIA, Oracle, Salesforce... ...“We are at the beginning of a new era driven by accelerated computing and generative AI,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, in a statement... ...AI, Niki Parmar and Ashish Vaswani founded Adept AI) -- including Gomez.... ...Cohere, founded in 2019 by Gomez, Ivan Zhang and Nick Frosst, is just one company enjoying the investment frenzy into generative AI since Microsoft...

Adobe brings Firefly, ‘commercially safe’ image-generating AI, to the enterprise
venturebeat.com > ai...Its first Firefly model, launched in March, is trained on hundreds of millions of Adobe Stock"s licensed images, openly licensed content and other... ...Adobe announced today that it will bring Firefly, its image-generating AI that it claims is the only “commercially safe generative AI,” to enterprise... ...Meredith Cooper, senior director of product marketing for Digital Media at Adobe, said that since the Firefly beta launch, the company has seen a... ...While Adobe is confident in Firefly as a commercially-viable model, the company told VentureBeat it plans to provide enterprise customers with an...

Mino Games launches series of alpha trials for Dimensions Web3 RPG
venturebeat.com > games...Mino Games unveiled the alpha version of Dimensionals, a new gaming franchise that will eventually feature the first character-driven RPG (role-playing... ...The company made the announcement at the inaugural 3XP Web3 Gaming Expo today in Pasadena, California.... ...while Mino Games" CEO, Sasha MacKinnon, livestreams the new alpha build each week on Discord.... ..., and personalized gameplay ever, said Sasha MacKinnon, CEO of Mino Games, in an interview with GamesBeat....

OpenAI rival Cohere raises a fresh $270 million to bring generative ...
venturebeat.com > ai...The Toronto-based company just announced $270 million in a Series C round of funding led by Inovia with participation from NVIDIA, Oracle, Salesforce... ...“We are at the beginning of a new era driven by accelerated computing and generative AI,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, in a statement... ...AI, Niki Parmar and Ashish Vaswani founded Adept AI) -- including Gomez.... ...Cohere, founded in 2019 by Gomez, Ivan Zhang and Nick Frosst, is just one company enjoying the investment frenzy into generative AI since Microsoft...

HyperPlay raises $12M for cross-chain Web3 game launcher
venturebeat.com > games...autonomous organization (DAO) focused on building Web3 gaming infrastructure.... ...HyperPlay has raised $12 million for its Web3 game launcher and cross-chain aggregator of multiple game stores.... ...Other investors in the round include MetaMask"s parent company ConsenSys, Ethereal Ventures, Delphi, Game7, Mirana Ventures, Monoceros Ventures and... ...Griffin Gaming Partners and Bitkraft Ventures co-led the round....

Gong launches customizable generative AI models to streamline sales workflows
venturebeat.com > ai...Revenue intelligence platform Gong today unveiled a suite of proprietary generative AI models designed specifically for sales teams.... ...Gong asserts that its generative AI models stand out from off-the-shelf systems due to their ability to categorize large quantities of sales deal-specific... ...CEO Amit Bendov, CEO told VentureBeat.... ...“Our model understands the important highlights in each conversation,” said Bendov....

Virtual Beings Summit features how AI simulations will change entertainment (June 7 in SF)
venturebeat.com > games...These characters can live their lives and continue to thrive in these virtual worlds even if they aren't controlled by humans, said Edward Saatchi... ...The fifth annual Virtual Beings Summit: Simulations is taking place on June 7 in San Francisco, and the event will center on the big trend around... ...“I think the entire industry will head in this direction,” Saatchi said. The event takes place at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco on June 7....

Deepmind’s AlphaDev discovers sorting algorithms that can revolutionize computing foundations
venturebeat.com > ai...Google's artificial intelligence (AI) research lab DeepMind has achieved a remarkable feat in computer science through its latest AI system, AlphaDev... ...In a paper published today in the science journal Nature, DeepMind asserts that AlphaDev"s newly discovered algorithm achieves a 70% increase in... ...Daniel Mankowitz told VentureBeat.... ...“AlphaDev discovered improved sorting algorithms, including novel innovations such as the AlphaDev copy and swap moves,” Google staff research scientist...