Tag: category-/Business & Industrial

Productiv launches Sidekick, an AI-powered assistant for smarter SaaS management

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Productiv, a leading SaaS management platform, has announced the launch of Sidekick, an AI-powered chatbot designed to revolutionize how IT leaders and finance teams manage their software licenses, usage data, and budgets. With Sidekick, users […]

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Game studios show resilience amid shifting market | Unity

Game engine maker Unity published a report today that sheds light on the gaming industry’s response to economic challenges, highlighting resilience and adaptation among game studios in the face of adversity. The report also gets into the response of game developers to tech advances and evolving player preferences. Coincidentally, resilience and adaptation is the theme […]

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Mobile gaming still shows promising growth in 2024 | Adjust x AppLovin

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  Analytics company Adjust today released its Gaming App Insights Report, in partnership with AppLovin and SparkLabs. The new report features insights and data on the mobile gaming market, including installs and in-app […]

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Decoding the data dilemma: Strategies for effective data deletion in the age of AI

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Businesses today have a tremendous opportunity to use data in new ways, but they must also look at what data they keep and how they use it to avoid potential legal issues. Even with the […]

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Game journalists face more work, greater pressure | Big Games Machine

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  Journalists who work in gaming are facing increased workloads and expectations and have to contend with the perceived looming threat of AI, according to a survey from PR company Big Games Machine […]

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Deci announces new AI dev platform and small model Deci Nano

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Amid a relatively quiet period from OpenAI, rival Anthropic has stolen headlines with the release of its new Claude 3 family of large language models (LLMs). But there’s another foundation model provider to keep an […]

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Griffin Gaming Partners appoints ex-Scopely veteran Aaron Loeb as operating partner

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  Aaron Loeb has joined Griffin Gaming Partners, the biggest venture capital firm specializing in gaming, as an operating partner. Los Angeles-based Griffin Gaming Partners has more than $1 billion in assets, Loeb […]

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Thirdverse completes $11.3M funding round for VR games

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  Thirdverse has raised an additional $3.3 million in funding, completing its Series D funding round for a total of $11.3 million. Thirdverse CEO Hironao Kunimitsu had previously announced the Series D funding […]

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Fast-growing “Why Unified” becomes 3rd-leading Delaware company

In a remarkable feat of business acumen and innovation, “Why Unified” has ascended to become the third fastest-growing company in Delaware. This prestigious recognition, as reported by Inc. 5000 in 2023, places Why Unified at the forefront of Delaware’s bustling corporate landscape, also earning them the title of the 418th fastest-growing company nationwide. This milestone […]

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Snowflake and Landing AI combine forces to tackle unstructured data challenges with computer vision

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Earlier this month, Snowflake, the data warehousing giant, announced a strategic investment and partnership with Landing AI, a computer vision startup founded by AI luminary Andrew Ng. The collaboration aims to integrate Landing AI’s advanced […]

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Stablecoin developers get new tool to spur acceptance

The whole point of a stablecoin is that its value remains steady, but in a pleasant twist for the cryptocurrency world, the value of stablecoins as an economic resource is taking off. The events of the past few months show the increasing acceptance of stablecoins, and one development in particular may accelerate the process by […]

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Databricks invests in Mistral and brings its AI models to data intelligence platform

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Today, Databricks, the fast growing data infrastructure company led by Ali Ghodsi, announced a partnership with Paris-based Mistral, the well-funded startup that’s made waves in the global AI community with its growing family of highly-performant […]

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Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, an AI model built for speed and affordability

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. San Francisco-based startup Anthropic has just released Claude 3 Haiku, the newest addition to its Claude 3 family of AI models. Haiku stands out as the fastest and most affordable model in its intelligence class, […]

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Proscia’s $46M Series C propels AI-driven pathology into the mainstream

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Proscia, a leading provider of digital pathology software, announced today that it has raised $9 million in an extension of its Series C funding round, bringing the total round to $46 million. The funding comes […]

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Proscia’s $46M Series C propels AI-driven pathology into the mainstream

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Proscia, a leading provider of digital pathology software, announced today that it has raised $9 million in an extension of its Series C funding round, bringing the total round to $46 million. The funding comes […]

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AI Impact Tour arrives in Boston on March 27: A focus on data integrity in generative AI

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. On March 27, we’ll host the next installment of our AI Impact Tour in Boston, focusing on the practical application of generative AI in enterprise settings, with a particular emphasis on the critical role of […]

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EU Parliament officially adopts AI Act — landmark regulation likely to become law in May

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Nearly three years after draft rules were proposed, European Parliament lawmakers approved the AI Act today. The approval, which came a month earlier than expected, is the final endorsement of the first comprehensive regulation around high-risk […]

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Salesforce launches ‘Pro Suite’ to capture more of the SMB market

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. In another move to strengthen its market footprint, Salesforce has announced it is launching the “Pro Suite” of its CRM offering in general availability. Accessible starting today through a single application, the offering builds on […]

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Creatio unveils LLM-powered Copilot for its CRM

The 11-year-old Boston headquartered software company Creatio, known for its customer relationship management (CRM) system of the same name and “no-code” approach that lets users drag and drop to create their own bespoke CRM apps, has been at the forefront of embracing generative AI for business for the last several months. Today, the company is […]

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PostgreSQL and Databricks founders join forces for DBOS to create a new type of operating system

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Is it time for a new type of operating system? The founders of DBOS think so. Back in 1986, Michael Stonebraker started the open-source PostgreSQL database project, which to this day remains one of the […]

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4 leading trust & safety tools form The Gaming Safety Coalition

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  Four leading gaming trust and safety companies are banding together to form The Gaming Safety Coalition. This strategic alliance between Modulate, Keywords Studios, ActiveFence and Take This represents the companies’ shared commitment […]

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Kaedim raises $15M to fund AI-based 3D asset creation solutions

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  Kaedim, which offers tools to streamline 3D asset content creation, announced it has raised $15 million in its Series A funding round. The startup recently launched a new AI-powered marketplace of 10,000 […]

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Ocient raises $49.4M to grow hyperscale database capabilities

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Hyperscale data warehouse vendor Ocient is raising $49.4 million in new funding, it announced today, as the company looks to grow its capabilities for new industry use cases and continuing demand for artificial intelligence (AI). […]

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Elon Musk vows to make his ChatGPT competitor Grok open source

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Today, Elon Musk, the billionaire behind Tesla, SpaceX and many other companies, announced that his AI startup xAI will open-source its Grok large language model this week. The move would be a significant symbol of […]

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Alliance for OpenUSD launches new standards working groups for interoperable 3D

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  I think of the Alliance for OpenUSD as a group making standards for the open industrial and enterprise metaverse. And today they’re announcing two new working groups and a collaborative liaison relationship. […]

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Blockus raises $4M pre-seed round for web3 gaming infrastructure

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  Blockus, the web3 gaming tech stack and payments provider, has announced $4 million in pre-seed funding. Maple VC led the round with Altos Ventures and angel investors such as Zhuoxun Yin from […]

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Startups vs scaleups: Are you doing it wrong?

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. In a new book on entrepreneurship, “Growth Levers and How to Find Them,” Matt Lerner writes: “Great startups don’t waste time on small stuff, so we can focus everyone on the most impactful work.” [embedded […]

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Inflection AI launches new model for Pi chatbot, nearly matches GPT-4 

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Today, Inflection AI, the Palo Alto-based startup founded by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, announced a new foundation model called Inflection-2.5. Built on the work done so far, Inflection-2.5 outperforms the […]

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Nvidia GTC 2024 preview — AI marches forward | Greg Estes

Nvidia’s GTC 2024 event is back in person at the San Jose Convention Center on March 18 to March 20, and it should draw more than 16,000 people in person and perhaps 300,000 online. The growth from last year — perhaps double the number from the last time it was held in person — tells […]

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Xsolla debuts Xsolla Wallet and takes game payments to Africa

Xsolla, a game commerce company, announced Xsolla Wallet to simplify monetization and engagement challenges in games. It also launched digital game payments in Africa. The company said both ventures highlight its commitment to empowering the global creator economy within the video game industry. The Xsolla Wallet offers embedded finance options specifically designed for developers and […]

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Zapier Central debuts as no-code tool for building enterprise AI bots

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. When it comes to business automation, Zapier is undoubtedly one of the most well recognized names, counting more than 2.2 million lifetime customers, according to its website, thanks to its ability to set up workflows […]

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