Netflix has employed Alain Tascan as its new president of games. Earlier than becoming a member of Netflix, Tascan was govt vice chairman for Epic Video games and oversaw first-party improvement for among the firm’s (and gaming’s) most profitable titles, like Fortnite, Rocket League and Fall Guys.
Since launching its video games venture in 2021, Netflix has acquired notable indie studios Evening College, Boss Battle, Subsequent Video games and Spry Fox and has introduced many nice indie video games to cellular — severely, search the app retailer, if just for Into The Breach. Netflix lately mentioned it has 80-plus video games at the moment in improvement. A multiplayer Squid Game project will likely be a part of that, coinciding with the hit present’s subsequent season, later this 12 months.
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The massive language mannequin arms race continues.
Meta’s latest giant language mannequin (LLM), known as Llama 3.1 405B, is the primary overtly out there mannequin to compete with rivals normally information, math and translating. It was apparently educated on greater than 16,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, at the moment the quickest out there chips, which price roughly $25,000 every, and might 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 totally free, with out sharing private knowledge with Meta.
The writer confirmed its layoffs.
Humble Video games laid off all 36 of its employees. Former staff posted in regards to 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 help and publish each ongoing and upcoming initiatives. Humble Video games is owned by media conglomerate Ziff Davis, which counts IGN, Eurogamer and GamesIndustry.biz in its gaming portfolio.
Together with a 954-piece Battle Bus package.
That ought to maintain somebody busy for a day or ten.
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