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Sport analytics leverage AI and ML to improve the game

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In the years since author Michael Lewis popularized sabermetrics in his 2003 book, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game , sports analytics has evolved considerably beyond baseball. During each week of games, the platform captures and processes 6.8 Computer vision, AI, and machine learning (ML) all now play a role.

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Vectary, a design platform for 3D and AR, raises $7.3M from EQT and BlueYard

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Vectary , a design platform for 3D and augmented reality (AR), has raised a $7.3 Vectary makes high-quality 3D design more accessible for consumers, garnering over one million creators worldwide, and has more than a thousand digital agencies and creative studios as users. Tokyo-based virtual reality game developer Thirdverse gets $8.5

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Scale AI gets into the synthetic data game

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Now, it is using that foundation to get into the synthetic data game, one of the hotter and emerging categories in AI. Scale hired Joel Kronander, who previously headed up machine learning at Nines and was a former computer vision engineer at Apple working on 3D mapping, as its new head of synthetic data.

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

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Nvidia’s transformation from an accelerator of video games to an enabler of artificial intelligence (AI) and the industrial metaverse didn’t happen overnight—but the leap in its stock market value to over a trillion dollars did. Some of those models are truly gargantuan: OpenAI’s GPT-4 is said to have over 1 trillion parameters.

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Y Combinator-backed Poly uses AI to generate art assets

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One of the more interesting ventures to emerge from the space recently is Poly, which lets designers create video game and other virtual assets, including textures for 3D models, using only text prompts. Poly’s first tool in its planned web-based suite generates 3D textures with physically-based rendering maps.

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Daily Crunch: Mobile gaming review — Playing on the Logitech G Cloud with Shadow

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On cloud 9 : Romain chronicles how pairing up the Logitech G Cloud with cloud computing service Shadow not only made for a better gaming experience, but was also “a match made in cloud gaming heaven.”. Supply chain challenges begone : Pantheon Design alleviates supply chain uncertainty with factory-grade 3D printing, Rita reports.

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Norwegian corporate training startup Attensi raises $26M from NYC’s Lugard Road, DX Ventures

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Corporate training startup Attensi — which originally emerged out of Oslo, Norway — has raised $26 million from New York-based Lugard Road Capital, DX Ventures (a VC fund backed by Delivery Hero) and existing shareholder Viking Venture. The new funding will be used to expand in North America and Europe.

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