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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

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million in seed funding to make its mission a reality, with backers including OSS Capital; Lux Capital; Sisu Game Ventures; and — somewhat notably — Bob Young , the cofounder and former CEO of Red Hat, an enterprise-focused open-source company that IBM went on to acquire for $34 billion in 2019. Godot editor demo.

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Synthesis AI raises $17M to generate synthetic data for computer vision

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Behzadi, of course, asserts that Synthesis has taken meaningful steps toward overcoming these technical hurdles. “Leading companies in the AR, VR, and metaverse space are using our diverse digital humans and accompanying rich set of 3D facial and body landmarks to build more realistic and emotive avatars,” Behzadi said.

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