Kinetix, the generative AI startup creating user-generated emotes (UGE) for video games, has teamed up with Overdare to put generative AI in the hands of gamers.
Overdare is a user-generated content (UGC) platform from South Korean publishing giant Krafton. Today, the companies are placing the power of generative AI directly into the hands of gamers.
Enabling completely new, previously impossible…
OpenAI is devouring the media industry
May 30, 2024
Let’s make one thing clear up front: I’m generally pro-generative AI. At least, I am a lot more amenable to it — and use it myself daily in the form of parsing information via ChatGPT and generating images with it and Midjourney — than many of my peers in the…
Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6B to take on OpenAI
May 29, 2024
Today, Elon Musk’s xAI startup announced a massive $6 billion round of funding. Confirming reports from April, the series B investment comes from the participation of multiple known venture capital firms and investors, including Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital…
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI this morning announced it has begun training its new “frontier model” and formed a new Safety and Security Committee led by current board members Bret Taylor (OpenAI board chair and co-founder of customer service startup Sierra AI, former Google Maps lead and former Facebook CTO), Adam D’Angelo (CEO of Quora and AI model aggregator app Poe), Nicole Seligman (former…
GitHub Accelerator fuels open source AI revolution, empowering startups to democratize access
May 29, 2024
GitHub has officially launched its 2024 Accelerator program, aiming to support and promote open source projects that are reshaping the technology landscape. The program, designed to provide financial backing, mentorship, and community-building opportunities, is already…
Atropos Health, a healthcare technology company focused on generating personalized real-world evidence, announced today that it has raised $33 million in a Series B funding round. The round included strategic investments from healthcare giants McKesson, Merck, and Cencora…
Anomaly has raised $1.45 million for an AI-driven Layer 3 Web3 gaming platform.
Anomaly unveiled its AI-driven layer 3 gaming platform, which the company said has captivatedTelegram’s users with a novel “play-to-airdrop” mechanism.
The recent funding round valued Anomaly at $11.4 million post-money and it was led by Decasonic, with participation from Shima Capital, Round 13, Triptyq VC…
In its Q1 2025 earnings call on Wednesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlighted the explosive growth of generative AI (GenAI) startups using Nvidia’s accelerated computing platform.
“There’s a long line of generative AI startups, some 15,000, 20,000 startups in all…
Blink, and you might just miss the invention of yet another programming language. The old joke goes that programmers spend 20% of their time coding and 80% of their time deciding what language to use. In fact, there are so many programming languages out there that we are not…
Sometimes it feels as if the world suddenly jumps forward. Certainly, that’s what it felt like 18 months ago when OpenAI first released ChatGPT. According to a study from UBS, ChatGPT grew to more than 100 million users in the first two months of its release, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history. At the time, there was a palpable sense that something dramatic was…
