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Ben Dickson @ VentureBeat 1 place · 01/31/2025 14:53 EDT

Beyond benchmarks: How DeepSeek-R1 and o1 perform on real-world tasks

o1 is slightly better at reasoning, but DeepSeek-R1 provides much more details about its reasoning, which is very useful to the user. Read more ›

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Carl Franzen @ VentureBeat · 01/31/2025 14:00 EDT

It’s here: OpenAI’s o3-mini advanced reasoning model arrives to counter DeepSeek’s rise

It's 63% cheaper than OpenAI o1-mini and 93% cheaper than the full o1 model, priced at $1.10/$4.40 per million tokens in/out. Read more ›

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Dean Takahashi @ VentureBeat · 01/31/2025 13:00 EDT

Survive until 25? We’re off to a rough start | The DeanBeat

Last year, the saying going around the game industry was Survive until 25. The hope was that things would get better after a very rough year. Read more ›

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Dean Takahashi @ VentureBeat · 01/31/2025 09:00 EDT

Dan Houser’s Absurd Ventures teases animation project and action-comedy adventure game

Dan Houser's Absurd Ventures is teasing some new projects including an animated series and an action-comedy adventure game. Read more ›

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Dean Takahashi @ VentureBeat · 01/31/2025 03:00 EDT

Cristiano Ronaldo teams with UFL free-to-play soccer game

UFL, the new free-to-play soccer video game, is set to launch the Cristiano Ronaldo Team Pass, celebrating the soccer legend's career. Read more ›

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Dean Takahashi @ VentureBeat · 01/31/2025 01:20 EDT

Midnight Society shuts down and kills Dead Drop game

In the wake of parting ways with gaming personality Dr. Disrespect, Midnight Society has closed its doors and killed the first-person shooter game Dead Drop. Read more ›

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Dean Takahashi @ VentureBeat · 01/31/2025 00:15 EDT

Summer Game Fest debuts in LA on June 6 to June 9, 2025

The sixth annual Summer Game Fest is returning to Los Angeles from June 6 to June 9, 2025. Read more ›

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Rachel Kaser @ VentureBeat · 01/30/2025 18:33 EDT

Mother Games, which launched from stealth last year, revealed the teaser trailer for its RPG Le Zoo, which it plans to launch this year. Read more ›

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Carl Franzen @ VentureBeat · 01/30/2025 17:29 EDT

Former Google, Meta leaders launch Palona AI, bringing personalized, emotive customer agents to non-techie enterprises

Palona’s approach suggests that customer relationships don’t have to be sacrificed for automation—instead, AI can enhance personalization. Read more ›

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Imran Khan @ VentureBeat · 01/30/2025 17:10 EDT

Meta uncharacteristically quiet about $5 billion in VR losses

Meta is standing by their VR projects as their foot in the door for the Metaverse, but it's becoming an expensive investment. Read more ›

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Michael Nuñez @ VentureBeat · 01/30/2025 13:05 EDT

Mistral Small 3 brings open-source AI to the masses — smaller, faster and cheaper

French AI startup Mistral unveils a breakthrough 24B parameter language model that matches the performance of models three times its size, challenging tech giants with faster speeds and lower computing costs while targeting enterprise deployments. Read more ›

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Dean Takahashi @ VentureBeat · 01/30/2025 12:00 EDT

USC’s 9th games expo returns May 13 with 60 games

USC Games announced its 9th annual USC Games Expo will return to USC’s campus on May 13 with more than 60 student games. Read more ›

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Michael Nuñez @ VentureBeat · 01/30/2025 12:00 EDT

Cerebras becomes the world’s fastest host for DeepSeek R1, outpacing Nvidia GPUs by 57x

Cerebras Systems launches DeepSeek's R1-70B AI model on its wafer-scale processor, delivering 57x faster speeds than GPU solutions and challenging Nvidia's AI chip dominance with U.S.-based inference processing. Read more ›

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Dean Takahashi @ VentureBeat · 01/30/2025 11:00 EDT

Video Game History Museum launches VGHF Digital Library

The Video Game History Foundation has officially launched the VGHF Digital Library to help game history fans with research. Read more ›

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Michael Nuñez @ VentureBeat · 01/30/2025 10:00 EDT

Riffusion’s free AI music platform could be the Spotify of the future

Riffusion launches a free AI music generation platform that creates original songs from text and audio prompts, challenging tech giants with personalized learning features and backing from The Chainsmokers. Read more ›

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Dean Takahashi @ VentureBeat · 01/30/2025 10:00 EDT

Moonray blockchain game will debut on Xbox and PS5 in 2025

Moonray Studios said its blockchain game Moonray will debut on both Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 launch later this year. Read more ›

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Dean Takahashi @ VentureBeat · 01/30/2025 10:00 EDT

Gaming M&A and financing deals grew 39% in 2024 | Drake Star

Gaming mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and financings in 2024 grew 39% to $27.3 billion in disclosed deal value across over 967 transactions, according to a report by Drake Star Partners. That’s a glimmer of bright news at a time when revenues appeared stagnant and game companies laid off more than 15,000 people. In fact, the […] Read more ›

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Dean Takahashi @ VentureBeat · 01/30/2025 09:30 EDT

Blue Dot Games brings ’83 multiplayer shooter back from the dead

Blue Dot Games is reviving ’83, a multiplayer shooter game set in the midst of the Cold War, after a previous publisher canceled the game. Now the studio said it has raised partial funding for its ’83 title, thanks to money from an angel investor on the company’s Discord channel. The money came in after […] Read more ›

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Michael Nuñez @ VentureBeat · 01/30/2025 09:01 EDT

Y Combinator-backed startup Martin AI secures $2M seed funding to challenge Siri and Google with its innovative personal AI assistant, built by 19-year-old founders to revolutionize how consumers interact with AI through custom memory architecture and multi-channel accessibility. Read more ›

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Dean Takahashi @ VentureBeat · 01/30/2025 09:00 EDT

Little Umbrella makes the funding rain after success of Death by AI social game

Little Umbrella, an emerging pioneer in AI-powered social games, has raised $2 million in funding after the success of its Death by AI social game. Read more ›

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