AI & Robotics

AI is coming to disrupt game art production whether artists like it or not. And Layer AI is the latest startup to raise $1.8 million to bring AI to game art. Layer AI raised the round of venture capital funding from investors such as The Games Fund to create what it says is a cutting-edge AI-powered productivity tool. The San Francisco company, known for its innovative solutions, has attracted a…

In this week’s carcast, we discuss data moats, the generative AI iceberg and ways to outpace the competition. We highlight the data-driven success of Andrew Storrs, data leader at Canadian fashion designer Aritzia and talk about the insightful gen AI iceberg concept by Tony Seale, knowledge graph engineer at investment firm UBS. This week’s video also includes a discussion on data moats…

Chip design software firm Synopsys has unveiled Synopsys.ai Copilot as an AI-driven accelerator for designing semiconductor chips. Sunnyvale, California-based Synopsys said the electronic design automation (EDA) tools uses groundbreaking generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) capability for the copilot. This innovation, born out of a strategic collaboration with Microsoft, leverages the Azure…

Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference, held in Seattle this year, was packed this morning with announcements and updates on the company’s vision and technology around generative AI. The announcements, which included everything from new AI chip hardware and software to security, and open source format moves, show Microsoft is pulling out all of the stops it can to exert leadership in in the…