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Baidu delivers new LLMs ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 undercutting DeepSeek, OpenAI on cost — but they’re not open source (yet)

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Over the weekend, Chinese web search giant Baidu announced the launch of two new AI models, ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1, a multimodal language model and reasoning model, respectively. Baidu claims they offer state-of-the-art performance on a variety of metrics, besting DeepSeek’s non-reasoning V3 and OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 (how do you like the close name match Baidu

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Carl Franzen March 17, 2025
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Mistral AI drops new open-source model that outperforms GPT-4o Mini with fraction of parameters

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More French artificial-intelligence startup Mistral AI unveiled a new open-source model today that the company says outperforms similar offerings from Google and OpenAI, setting the stage for increased competition in a market dominated by U.S. tech giants. The model, called Mistral Small 3.1, processes both text and images with just 24 billion parameters—a fraction of the size

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Michael Nuñez March 17, 2025

Inworld AI showcases AI case studies as they move to production

The current AI ecosystem wasn’t built with game developers in mind. While impressive in controlled demos, today’s AI technologies expose critical limitations when transitioning to production-ready games, said Kylan Gibbs, CEO of Inworld AI, in an interview with GamesBeat. Right now, AI deployment is being slowed because game developers are dependent on black-box APIs with unpredictable pricing and shifting terms, leading to a loss of autonomy and stalled innovation, he said. Players are left with

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Dean Takahashi March 17, 2025

Game studios deal with uncertainty by doing more with less | Unity

Unity said in its annual report that game developers faced with uncertainty are doing more with less resources. The last few years have been a difficult time in game development, said Unity, maker of the Unity 6 game engine. The industry is still massive, with over three billion global active players. Games grossed over $184 billion in 2024, easily out-earning TV and movies. Yet there’s a grimmer set of numbers, too, the tallies of layoffs,

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Dean Takahashi March 17, 2025
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Inching towards AGI: How reasoning and deep research are expanding AI from statistical prediction to structured problem-solving

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More AI has evolved at an astonishing pace. What seemed like science fiction just a few years ago is now an undeniable reality. Back in 2017, my firm launched an AI Center of Excellence. AI was certainly getting better at predictive analytics and many machine learning (ML) algorithms were being used for voice recognition, spam detection, spell

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Gary Grossman, Edelman March 16, 2025

Second Life Steals, Deals, and Freebies: Where to Find Free Body Skins to Match LAQ Skin Tones

Please note that I am still taking a hiatus from blogging; I only wrote this blogpost because it was the most convenient way to share a lot of detailed information, in a way people can easily refer back to. Don’t get me wrong, Primfeed is great, but stuff tends to disappear from people’s feeds very quickly, whereas a blog is more permanent! Thanks. Have you read my first review of the LAQ Era2 SupremeUHD heads?

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Ryan Schultz March 15, 2025
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Launching your first AI project with a grain of RICE: Weighing reach, impact, confidence and effort to create your roadmap

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Businesses know they can’t ignore AI, but when it comes to building with it, the real question isn’t, What can AI do — it’s, What can it do reliably? And more importantly: Where do you start? This article introduces a framework to help businesses prioritize AI opportunities. Inspired by project management frameworks like the RICE scoring

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Sean Falconer, Confluent March 15, 2025

GFAL unveils beta for Diamond Dreams match-3 game with optional Web3 features

GFAL is launching Diamond Dreams, a match-3 puzzle game with a luxury theme and optional Web3 features. The game is set to launch in beta on March 18. GFAL (short for Games for a Living) said Diamond Dreams combines sophisticated craftsmanship, immersive storytelling, and sharp visuals to create what may be the most luxurious game experience ever designed. In Diamond Dreams, players craft exquisite, lifelike jewelry in a world that reflects the elegance and prestige

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Dean Takahashi March 14, 2025

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