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Sport analytics leverage AI and ML to improve the game

CIO

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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Gwoop raises $1.8M for its esports training platform as it starts working with high school gaming leagues

TechCrunch

Earlier this year I wrote about Gwoop , a team out of Minnesota building a collection of browser-based games meant to help you get better at video games overall. Over the last few months the company has been building out “Gwoop Teams,” which, as the name implies, is built for groups training together.

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Turkey’s Ace Games raises $7M to develop casual and ‘hyper casual’ games

TechCrunch

Ace Games , a Turkish mobile gaming company founded by a former Peak Games co-founder, has raised a $7 million seed funding round led by Actera Group. Former gaming entrepreneurs Kristian Segerstrale, Alexis Bonte and Kaan Gunay also participated. 6 investors on 2021’s mobile gaming trends and opportunities.

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Hack The Box, a gamified cybersecurity training platform with 1.7M users, raises $55M

TechCrunch

It also has a “pro lab” tier that takes on typical network configurations, such as Active Directory or fully patched environments, to test and train people on different attacks and approaches around common enterprise tools and scenarios. HTB is not the first nor only company to build cyber training around a gamified environment.

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How Deepgram Works

Regardless of whether you are evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) solutions to get more value out of your call center data, build the next game-changing voice feature, or are just looking to save a lot of money on speech transcription, Deepgram is the platform to get you there. How you can label, train and deploy speech AI models.

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Gaming startup Statespace raises $29 million, tops 1.5 million MAUs

TechCrunch

Statespace, the training platform for gamers, has today announced the close of a $29 million Series B financing led by Khosla Ventures. Founder and CEO Wayne Mackey described the funding as pre-emptive as the company experiences a growth spurt alongside the broader gaming industry. to help gamers train.

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VRAI wants to tackle the energy crisis by bringing VR simulation training to offshore wind sector

TechCrunch

Virtual Reality (VR) has struggled to transition too far beyond gaming circles and specific industry use-cases such as medical training , but with the burgeoning metaverse movement championed by tech heavyweights such as Meta , there has been a renewed hope (and hype) around the promise that virtual worlds bring.

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