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Netflix has hired Alan Tascan as its new president of games. Prior to joining Netflix, Tascan served as executive vice president at Epic Games, where he oversaw first-party development for some of the company’s (and the games industry’s) most successful titles. Fortnite, Rocket League and Fall Guys.
Since Netflix began its gaming projects in 2021, it has acquired notable indie studios such as Night School, Boss Fight, Next Games, and Spry Fox, bringing many great indie games to mobile. Just search for them in the app store. Towards a breakthrough. Netflix recently announced that it currently has over 80 games in development. Squid Game The project is part of that effort and is scheduled to run alongside the next season of the hit show later this year.
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The arms race for large-scale language models continues.
Meta’s latest large-scale language model (LLM), Llama 3.1 405B, is the first publicly available model to compete against competitors in general knowledge, mathematics, and translation. Meta says the model was trained on over 16,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, the fastest chips available today, and at about $25,000 each, beats competitors in over 150 benchmarks.
Unlike OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic, which keep their AI models proprietary, Meta’s AI models are open source, meaning anyone can modify and use them for free, without sharing any personal data with Meta.
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The publisher acknowledged the job cuts.
Humble Games has laid off all 36 employees. Former employees have posted about the layoffs on social media. However, a Humble Games spokesperson confirmed to Engadget that the company will not be closing down following the restructuring, adding that the studio will continue to support and publish both ongoing and upcoming projects. Humble Games is owned by media conglomerate Ziff Davis, whose gaming portfolio includes IGN, Eurogamer and GamesIndustry.biz.
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Includes a 954-piece Battle Bus kit.
That should keep you busy for an afternoon or ten minutes.
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