It’s not so easy to create a differentiated free-to-play looter shooter game, but Nexon is on the path to do it with The First Descendant.
I played the third-person looter shooter game hands-on for nearly an hour at the recent Summer Game Fest Play Days event, and it kept me in a state of non-stop action. I was intrigued in part because The First Descendant had a particularly good cinematic…
Nvidia leads the age of AI hardware. The company’s high-performance GPUs are being used by some of the biggest technology companies in the world to power the training and inference for some very large models. But, as the Jensen Huang-led giant continues to thrive, a batch…
Democratizing AI: SmythOS is the hero everyone needs
June 28, 2024
Being a student is tough enough. Unfortunately, with gloom and doom scenarios about AI replacing job opportunities, life for students has become even tougher. It’s no wonder that many students are stressed about how or even if they will ever be able to support themselves.
Google to shore up Vertex AI’s enterprise credentials with addition of Mistral Small, Large and Codestral models
June 28, 2024
Google is adding more third-party models to its AI platform to give enterprise customers more freedom when building apps. Days after integrating Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet to Vertex AI, Google revealed that it will be adding support for Mistral Small, Mistral Large, and Mistral Codestral this July. Developers will be able to access them through the Vertex AI Model Garden. To enhance its…
Exclusive: Zip’s AI procurement platform drives $4.4 billion in savings, reshaping enterprise spending
June 28, 2024
Zip, an AI-powered procurement platform, announced today that it has helped customers achieve $4.4 billion in savings since its launch in 2020. The company, which serves enterprises across industries including technology, financial services, and healthcare, is leveraging…
As it seeks to win over enterprise customers, Google is trying to ensure that its AI platform minimizes hallucinations. It’s a big deal for organizations, especially those whose executives are already wary about the technology. Google is doubling down on model grounding to…
Time Magazine partners with OpenAI and ElevenLabs
June 28, 2024
Time Magazine, the iconic red-bordered former news weekly founded 101-years ago by print magnate Henry Luce (who also founded Fortune and Life), appears to be diving headfirst into the generative AI age with partnerships with major AI startups OpenAI and ElevenLabs announced today. First up, Time is partnering with OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT and the underlying GPT-4o and GPT series of models, as…
U.S. dronemaker Skydio said it has started hiring employees in Ukraine, a first step in an effort to expand its business there.
CEO Adam Bry described the work in an interview with Defense News Wednesday, hours before he testified before Congress.
“I’ve never met drone…
PARIS — Denmark plans to bring home its six F-35 Joint Strike Fighters currently being used to train pilots in the U.S. as the delivery schedule for an upgraded version of the aircraft continues to slip.
The six Danish F-35 jets in TR-2 configuration stationed at Luke Air…
The Navy’s ongoing carrier conundrum
June 28, 2024
After a grueling eight months leading the Navy’s effort to counter Iran-backed Houthi rebel attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower received a reprieve this month when it transited the Suez Canal and headed into the Mediterranean Sea, on its way back home to Norfolk.
During more than 200 days taking down a barrage of Houthi…
