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Speckle snags $5.5M seed to build open source platform for 3D drawings

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It enabled them to see and understand firsthand the issues associated with exchanging large proprietary 3D files from vendors like Autodesk and Trimble. They wanted to make it easier by building an open source platform to exchange and collaborate on these files. So there’s a level of interoperability there.”

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

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A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. “The result is reduced development costs and more freedom to innovate,” Linietsky said.

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Daily Crunch: PSG, Battery Ventures invest $100M in open source password manager Bitwarden 

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The EU — those guys who ensured we ended up with cookie banners on every damn website you’ve ever visited — are back at it with a new initiative that could have some major-league unintended consequences on open source software, Kyle reports. Lawn and order : Dominic-Madori reports that JusticeText raises $2.2

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10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024

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These roles include data scientist, machine learning engineer, software engineer, research scientist, full-stack developer, deep learning engineer, software architect, and field programmable gate array (FPGA) engineer. Torch enables fast and efficient GPU support, focusing on improving flexibility and speed when building complex algorithms.

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Nvidia unveils Workbench for managing AI workloads, updates Omniverse

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As befits a conference about computer graphics, though, most of the news revolved around Nvidia Omniverse, the company’s platform for real-time 3D graphics collaboration. ChatUSD uses an LLM to answer developers’ queries about how to create and deploy 3D graphical objects, and can respond with text or Python code.

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Foxglove raises $15M to build dev infrastructure for robots

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million, which CEO Adrian Macneil says is being put primarily toward product development and expanding the company’s product engineering and sales teams. That inspired Foxglove, which began in early 2021 as a fork of Webviz, an open source web visualization project released by Cruise three years ago. .

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

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Similarly, clothing brand Under Armour recently produced an ad that used AI-generated 3D models of the British boxer Anthony Joshua, based on videos they took of him in the past. Normally, a CCO develops ideas about what the market needs and communicates them to a design team, which produces sketches to then be reviewed by the CCO.