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Gartner forecasts gen AI spending to hit $644B in 2025: What it means for enterprise IT leaders

Make no mistake about it, there is a lot of money being spent on generative AI in 2025. Analyst firm Gartner released a new report today forecasting that global gen AI spending will hit $644 billion in 2025. That figure represents a 76.4% year-over-year increase over gen AI spending in 2024. Gartner’s report joins a chorus of other industry analyses in recent months that all point to increasing…
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Netflix Games loses its vice-president of generative AI

Five months after Netflix Games announced that generative AI in its game development studios would be a major focus for them, driven by the promotion of Mike Verdu to the vice president in charge of that technology, Verdu has apparently left Netflix Games (confirmed to…
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Hailo takes on Nvidia with energy-efficient gen AI accelerator for edge devices and $120M in funding

Even as Nvidia continues to mint money from its massive range of generative AI-focused hardware and software offerings, smaller players competing in the same space are not ready to cave in. Case in point: Hailo, an Israel-based startup that just launched a new energy-efficient gen AI accelerator for edge devices. Officially dubbed Hailo-10, the processor is designed to deploy gen AI applications…
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