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Mike Verdu of Netflix Games leads new generative AI initiative

Mike Verdu, who had largely spearheaded Netflix’s foray into gaming in recent years as VP of Netflix Games, announced on LinkedIn a new role within Netflix Games leading the company’s effort to capitalize on generative AI. The role, Vice President of GenAI for Games, focuses on using generative AI for the next step in creating games with big teams. “GenAI is that next challenge. I don’t…
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The show’s not over: 2024 sees big boost to AI investment

Global AI deal volumes reached 1,245 during Q3 2024, a level not seen since Q1 2022 reflecting how confident and resilient investors are about investing in AI. With a 24% year-over-year growth, global AI deals far outpaced the -10 % quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) declines across the broader investment market. CB Insights notes in its State of AI Q3’24 Report that despite broader venture trends…
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Why multi-agent AI tackles complexities LLMs can’t

The introduction of ChatGPT has brought large language models (LLMs) into widespread use across both tech and non-tech industries. This popularity is primarily due to two factors: LLMs as a knowledge storehouse: LLMs are trained on a vast amount of internet data and are…
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Midjourney launches AI image editor: How to use it

Midjourney, the hit AI image generation startup founded and run by former Magic Leap engineer David Holz, is wowing users with a new feature unveiled last night: AI image editing. As a good portion of Midjourney’s 20 million+ users (including some of us at VentureBeat) likely know, Midjourney previously allowed users to upload their own images gathered outside of the service to its alpha web…
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Generative AI isn’t coming for you — your reluctance to adopt it is

I’m a writer and always have been. My writing skills are undeniably central to my career as an in-house public relations leader and communications strategist. Admittedly, I scoffed at the notion of generative AI coming for my job. How could a soulless machine match my creative prowess? Eventually, I realized the threat to my career did not come from AI, but from my reluctance to adopt it. Like…
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