Netflix hired Alain Tascan the new president of the games. Before joining Netflix, Tascan was executive vice president of Epic Games, overseeing first-party development for some of the company’s (and games’) most successful games. Fortnite, Rocket League and Autumn Children.
Since launching the game project in 2021, Netflix has acquired prominent indie studios Night School, Boss Fight, Next Games, and Spry Fox and brought many great indie games to mobile devices – seriously search the app store. Into The Broach. Netflix recently reported that it has more than 80 games currently in development. A multiplayer Squid Game project will be part of later this year, coinciding with the next season of the hit show.
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The great language model arms race is on.
Meta’s newest large language model (LLM), called Llama 3.1 405B, is the first open access model to compete with competitors in general knowledge, mathematics, and translation. Meta claims it’s built on more than 16,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, the fastest chips currently costing around $25,000 each, and can beat competitors in more than 150 benchmarks.
Unlike OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic, which have their own AI models, Meta’s AI models are open source, meaning anyone can modify and use them for free without sharing their personal data with Meta.
The publishing house has confirmed that it has reduced its employees.
Humble Games has laid off all 36 employees. Former employees shared about the layoffs on social networks. However, a Humble Games PR representative confirmed to Engadget that the company will not be closing its doors after the restructuring. He added that the studio will continue to support and publish both ongoing and upcoming projects. Humble Games is owned by Ziff Davis, a media conglomerate whose gaming portfolio includes IGN, Eurogamer and GamesIndustry.biz.
Including 954 Battle Bus sets.
That should keep someone busy for an afternoon or so.
