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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. “As companies develop new hardware, new models, or expand their geographic and customer base, new training data is required to ensure models perform adequately,” Behzadi told TechCrunch via email.

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