Netflix has employed Alain Tascan as its new president of video games. Earlier than becoming a member of Netflix, Tascan was government vice chairman for Epic Video games and oversaw first-party growth for among the firm’s (and gaming’s) most profitable titles, like Fortnite, Rocket League and Fall Guys.
Since launching its video games undertaking in 2021, Netflix has acquired notable indie studios Night time College, Boss Struggle, Subsequent Video games and Spry Fox and has introduced many nice indie video games to cellular — significantly, search the app retailer, if just for Into The Breach. Netflix lately mentioned it has 80-plus video games presently in growth. A multiplayer Squid Sport undertaking shall be a part of that, coinciding with the hit present’s subsequent season, later this yr.
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The massive language mannequin arms race continues.
Meta’s latest massive language mannequin (LLM), known as Llama 3.1 405B, is the primary brazenly obtainable mannequin to compete with rivals normally information, math and translating. It was apparently educated on greater than 16,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, presently the quickest obtainable chips, which value roughly $25,000 every, and may beat rivals on over 150 benchmarks, Meta claimed.
Not like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic, which maintain their AI fashions proprietary shut, Meta’s AI fashions are open supply, that means anybody can modify and use them free of charge, with out sharing private information with Meta.
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The writer confirmed its layoffs.
Humble Video games laid off all 36 of its employees. Former workers posted concerning the layoffs on social media. However a PR rep for Humble Video games confirmed to Engadget the corporate wouldn’t be shutting its doorways after the restructuring. He added the studio would proceed to assist and publish each ongoing and upcoming tasks. Humble Video games is owned by media conglomerate Ziff Davis, which counts IGN, Eurogamer and GamesIndustry.biz in its gaming portfolio.
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Together with a 954-piece Battle Bus equipment.
That ought to hold somebody busy for a day or ten.
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