The acceleration of technological change is evident everywhere, and it’s benefiting games in unseen ways. In 2016, King had only 2,000 levels for Candy Crush Saga.
As the publisher King turns 20, there are now 15,000 levels for Candy Crush Saga, which has helped the company generate $20 billion in revenue and five billion downloads to date. The game had 238 million monthly active users in the…
The second annual HOLL·AI·WOOD AI Film and AI Games Festival took place in San Francisco on Tuesday night and offered us a preview of the future for both passive and interactive entertainment.
Edward Saatchi, CEO of Fable Studios and an organizer of the event, said more…
Customer insights platform Pathlight plans to rely on AI agents to extract strategic insights from large amounts of customer conversations in a way no human could manage alone, it announced this week. However, bringing this ambitious agent-powered vision to life posed…
As Meta, Character AI place bets on ‘fun’ chatbots, problems lurk behind AI-generated smiles
October 12, 2023
In a new Forbes report, high-flying AI chatbot startup Character AI, which is rumored to be in early funding talks at a whopping $5 billion valuation, is bringing its conversational characters to a new group chat function that allows users to talk to their favorite celebs, like Taylor Swift, with friends and family.
Character AI started the AI character craze when it was launched in September…
Ottawa, Ontario (CAN)-based AI governance firm NuEnergy.ai has secured a U.S. patent on its Machine Trust Index (MTI) methodology, a standardized measurement for artificial intelligence (AI) oversight.
The milestone comes as competition intensifies in the complex, quickly…
Few technology vendors have as broad an enterprise software portfolio as OpenText, and it’s a portfolio that is now being broadly enabled with generative AI capabilities.
The new OpenText Aviator effort is launching today as a set of AI capabilities in the OpenText Cloud…
The open-source alternatives to GPT-4 Vision are coming
October 12, 2023
The landscape of generative artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly with the advent of large multimodal models (LMM). These models are transforming the way we interact with AI systems, allowing us to use both images and text as input. OpenAI’s GPT-4 Vision is a leading example of this technology, but its closed-source and commercial nature can limit its use in certain…
MIT spinoff JetCool Technologies, a Department of Energy-backed startup working on a direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology for enterprise data centers, today announced $17 million in a series A round of funding, led by Bosch Ventures.
The investment, which also saw…
Replit brings open source AI developer tools to all users
October 12, 2023
Developer tooling vendor Replit is out this week with a series of new efforts designed to help bring AI for all developers.
Replit’s cloud software development platform is widely used with the company claiming to have over 20 million users. Over the course of the last…
Box launches AI-focused Hubs for curated search
October 12, 2023
How do employees find the information they need to do their job? And how can companies present the right information that employees need to find? According to Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie, this longstanding conundrum has only gotten more challenging in recent years, with data in the enterprise growing at an “explosive rate.”
To solve that problem, the Redwood City, California-based Box…
