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Meta unleashes Llama API running 18x faster than OpenAI: Cerebras partnership delivers 2,600 tokens per second
29 April 2025 @ 8:02 pm
Meta partners with Cerebras to launch its new Llama API, offering developers AI inference speeds up to 18 times faster than traditional GPU solutions, challenging OpenAI and Google in the fast-growing AI services market.
EA and Respawn lay off more staff, cancel incubation projects
29 April 2025 @ 6:37 pm
Respawn has laid off yet more staff and canceled two early-stage projects, the latest of multiple round of layoffs at EA studios.
Meta’s first dedicated AI app is here with Llama 4 — but it’s more consumer than productivity or business oriented
29 April 2025 @ 6:19 pm
This mainstream exposure will likely accelerate a shift in what people expect not just from consumer apps, but from workplaces...
PlayNice’s MindLight aims to help kids manage stress and anxiety
29 April 2025 @ 4:00 pm
PlayNice, the developer of proven, fun, and engaging games that prevent and treat mental health, today announces the launch of MindLight.
Tripp launches Kōkua AI as mental wellness coach across multiple platforms
29 April 2025 @ 1:30 pm
Tripp launched Kōkua AI, a mental wellness guide designed to deliver real-time, personalized emotional support across multiple platforms.
Gallium Studios finds Will Wright’s memories game, Proxi, as hard to pitch as The Sims
29 April 2025 @ 1:30 pm
When Will Wright pitched The Sims to his bosses at his own company years ago, he couldn’t get anyone excited about it. It was a miracle it shipped, and then it became the foundation for a franchise that has sold 200 million copies and generated $5 billion in revenues to date. Wright has some deja […]
xMEMS extends micro cooling fan-on-a-chip tech to AI data centers
29 April 2025 @ 1:00 pm
xMEMS Labs, a pioneer of MEMS-based chips, announced that its innovative µCooling fan-on-a-chip tech will be expanded to AI data centers.
Upheaval launches Dreamer Portal early access for AI-powered 3D game world creation
29 April 2025 @ 12:00 pm
Upheaval Games, founded by industry veterans from Blizzard, Tencent, and Unity, announced early access to The Dreamer Portal.
IXI raises $36.5M for world’s first autofocus glasses
29 April 2025 @ 10:00 am
IXI has raised $36.5 million in funding to launch the world’s first autofocus glasses which can correct vision dynamically.
ONE Fight Arena is a free-to-play combat sports mobile game from Notre Game and ONE
29 April 2025 @ 2:00 am
ONE Championship (ONE) and Notre Game, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, today launched the mobile game ONE Fight Arena.