AR/VR
AR/VR

GPT-4.5 for enterprise: Do its accuracy and knowledge justify the cost?

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The release of OpenAI GPT-4.5 has been somewhat disappointing, with many pointing out its insane price point (about 10 to 20X more expensive than Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 15 to 30X more costly than GPT-4o). However, given that this is OpenAI’s largest and most powerful non-reasoning model, it is worth considering its strengths and the areas

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Ben Dickson February 28, 2025

Could tighter budgets lead to more creativity? | Virtuos CEO Gilles Langourieux interview | The DeanBeat

Founded in 2004, Virtuos has grown into a big company when it comes to the production of games. As an external developer, Virtuos‘ team has crossed 4,200 professional game devs who can supplement the teams at game studios and publishers as they finish their games. The Singapore-based company can finish smaller games with a big shot of staffing at the end or engage in long-term co-development with game publishers as they start the games. Virtuos

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Dean Takahashi February 28, 2025

Owlchemy’s Dimensional Double Shift hits 500k download milestone

Owlchemy announced today that its handtracking VR game, Dimensional Double Shift, has passed the milestone of 500,000 downloads, making it the fastest-growing game in the studio’s catalog. The game is still in beta via the Open Beta Trainee Program, with Owlchemy saying it plans to release more content for the title later this year. The studio also revealed other details about the game so far, including that players have put 1.3 million hours into the

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Rachel Kaser February 27, 2025
AR/VR

After pizza, TapBlaze launches Good Coffee, Great Coffee on mobile

TapBlaze, the maker of Good Pizza, Great Pizza, has branched out with the launch of Good Coffee, Great Coffee on mobile devices. It launches today on iOS and Android. The game is a free-to-play title where players can buy cosmetics with real money. You may eventually be able to customize your shop and equipment. After all a whole decade refining the pizza game, it’s about time for TapBlaze to try something new. But the company

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Dean Takahashi February 27, 2025
AR/VR

OpenAI releases ‘largest, most knowledgable’ model GPT-4.5 with reduced hallucinations and high API price

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More It’s here: OpenAI has announced the release of GPT-4.5, a research preview of its latest and most powerful large language model (LLM) for chat applications. Unfortunately, it’s far-and-away OpenAI’s most expensive model (more on that below). It’s also not a “reasoning model,” or the new class of models offered by OpenAI, DeepSeek, Anthropic and many others

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Carl Franzen February 27, 2025
AR/VR

Rebuilding Alexa: How Amazon is mixing models, agents and browser-use for smarter AI

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Amazon is betting on agent interoperability and model mixing to make its new Alexa voice assistant more effective, retooling its flagship voice assistant with agentic capabilities and browser-use tasks. This new Alexa has been rebranded to Alexa+, and Amazon is emphasizing that this version “does more.” For instance, it can now proactively tell users if a

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Emilia David February 26, 2025

Nvidia CEO: Someday we’ll have 1B robotic cars on the road

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicted that someday we’ll have a billion cars on the road and they will all be robotic cars. It sounds like science fiction, but as Huang has said before, “I am science fiction.” He made the comments in a conference call with analysts about Nvidia’s FYQ4 earnings ending January 26, 2025. (Here’s our full report on the earnings). Nvidia’s stock is current down half a percent to $130.72 a share in

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Dean Takahashi February 26, 2025