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Arthur unveils Bench, an open-source AI model evaluator

August 18, 2023
New York City-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Arthur has announced the launch of Arthur Bench, an open-source tool for evaluating and comparing the performance of large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI‘s GPT-3.5 Turbo and Meta’s LLaMA 2. “With Bench, we’ve created an open-source tool to help teams deeply understand the differences between LLM providers, different…
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Gartner Hype Cycle places generative AI on the ‘Peak of Inflated Expectations’

August 17, 2023
Many might not be surprised, but today the 2023 Gartner Hype Cycle for emerging technologies placed generative AI on the ‘Peak of Inflated Expectations’ for the first time. Each year, Gartner creates more than 90 Hype Cycles as a way for its clients to track technology maturity and future potential. The five phases in the Hype Cycle are Technology Trigger, Peak of Inflated Expectations…
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NCSoft reveals VARCO AI language models

August 17, 2023
NCSoft announced today it’s launching a group of AI language models under the umbrella name VARCO LLM. It’s comprised of four language models, and generative AI services powered by those language models. Specifically, three of the generative AI services powered by VARCO…
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War Robots mobile shooter hits 250M downloads

August 17, 2023
My.Games announced that its War Robots mobile shooter has surpassed 250 million registered players across all platforms. Built by its in-house game studio Pixonic, War Robots is currently available on the App Store, Google Play, and Steam, My.Games said. War Robots celebrated its ninth anniversary in April 2023, and it has generated more than $750 million inlifetime gross revenue and continues to…
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Ex-MZ CEO launches BeFake, an AI-based social media app

August 17, 2023
Alias Technologies, an AI company started by former Machine Zone CEO Kristen Garcia Dumont, has introduced BeFake, a social media app for digital self-expression. It’s built on the catch phrase, “Why be real when you can be fake?” The app, now available on both the App…
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OpenAI acquires startup founded by ex-Instagram talent for undisclosed sum

August 17, 2023
OpenAI is making more moves. The company behind ChatGPT and Dall-E 2 just announced it has acquired Global Illumination, Inc., a New York City-based startup founded in 2021 by a trio of former Facebook and Instagram workers — Thomas Dimson, Taylor Gordon and Joey Flynn, who worked on engineering and product design at the Meta companies, respectively. “Global Illumination is a company that has…
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