Yesterday’s release of Meta’s LLaMA 2, under a commercial license, was undoubtedly an open-source AI mic drop. But startup Together, known for creating the RedPajama dataset in April, which replicated the LLaMA dataset, had its own big news over the past couple of days: It has released a new full-stack platform and cloud service for developers at startups and enterprises to build open-source…
Nvidia became a $1 trillion company thanks to AI. Look inside their lavish Star Trek-inspired HQ | The AI Beat
July 19, 2023
Over a million square feet across two massive steel and glass structures. Hundreds of conference rooms named after Star Trek places, alien races and starships, as well as astronomical objects — planets, constellations and galaxies. Acres of greenery and elevated…
GGWP has announced that it has raised $10 million in funding for its AI-based platform for moderating community behavior in multiplayer games.
GGWP also said it will be providing free access to its moderation tools for all developers, with different tiers of payment for more…
WASHINGTON — GM Defense is working with the Defense Innovation Unit on two projects aimed at bringing electric power to the battlefield — and potentially paving the way for the U.S. Marine Corps to feel comfortable fielding an all-electric vehicle down the road.
The company, a subsidiary of General Motors, is leveraging battery technology investments from the commercial automobile sector and…
Meta has delivered the first significant update to Threads since the social network launched earlier this month, and you might appreciate it if you’re still building your contact list. The company’s Cameron Roth has detailed an upgrade to the iOS app that adds a…
With less than 100 days to go before its Oct. 5 launch, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is undergoing final preparations at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Teams of engineers and technicians are working almost around the clock to ensure the orbiter is ready to journey 2.5 billion miles…
Goodbye, Xbox Live Gold — Hello, Game Pass Core
July 19, 2023
Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here.
Xbox announced yesterday that it is phasing out Xbox Live Gold, its long-running subscription service for online multiplayer, later this year. It’s incorporating it into Game Pass as a new tier called Core, which offers similar benefits to Live Gold, with some slight…
In a blockbuster announcement today designed to coincide with the Microsoft Inspire conference, Meta announced its new AI model, LLaMA 2 (Large Language Model Meta AI). Not only is this new large language model (LLM) now available, it’s also open-source and freely…
German enterprise software giant SAP is putting skin into the AI game.
The company today announced it has directly invested in three AI startups: Cohere, Anthropic (maker of the Claude 2 LLM service) and Aleph Alpha.
While the company did not specify a dollar amount of its…
Someone with deep pockets has snapped up a piece of tech history after forking over $190,000 for a first-generation iPhone from 2007. That’s around 300 times the device’s original price.
Don’t expect to fetch anything close to this kind of windfall by selling a 16-year-old smartphone you have stuffed in a drawer somewhere. This was a factory sealed device in “exceptional…
