Inworld and its AI NPCs are now valued at $500M

Inworld, a trailblazing company at the forefront of AI and gaming, has just closed a fundraising round where it raised a further $50 million.

This latest capital infusion – backed by prominent investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, Stanford University, First Spark Ventures, Samsung Next, LG Technology Ventures, and existing investors like Microsoft’s M12 fund and Intel Capital – brings Inworld's total funding to over $120 million since its inception in...

3 August 2023 | Artificial Intelligence

Stack Overflow unveils OverflowAI to support developers with AI/ML solutions

At the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin, Stack Overflow took the stage to reveal six innovative capabilities and features as part of its OverflowAI offerings.

These AI/ML solutions aim o revolutionise the way developers find solutions within their workflows, catering to both the public platform and Stack Overflow's popular SaaS product, Stack Overflow for Teams.

By integrating AI into its platform, Stack Overflow aims to accelerate the growth of GenAI, bringing...

27 July 2023 | Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI removes the GPT-4 API waitlist

OpenAI has announced that its GPT-4 API is now available to all paying customers.

The API has been under closed testing since its launch in March. Developers can integrate OpenAI's large language model (LLM) into their own products for uses such as summarisation, coding assistance, analysis, and composition.

OpenAI has also introduced updates to chat-based models, announced a shift from the Completions API to the Chat Completions API, and outlined plans for the...

11 July 2023 | API

Stability AI CEO: AI will replace human coders in five years

In a recent interview with Peter H. Diamandis for the Moonshots and Mindsets Podcast, Emad Mostaque, the founder and CEO of Stability AI, made a bold prediction: "There will be no programmers in five years."

Mostaque's vision of the future is one shaped by the transformative power of artificial intelligence and he believes that AI will play an increasingly dominant role in shaping our world.

Mostaque's argument is supported by data from GitHub, which reveals that an...

4 July 2023 | Artificial Intelligence

Steam won’t distribute games with AI assets (for now)

Valve recently addressed the controversy surrounding its stance on distributing games featuring AI-generated art and content via its Steam storefront.

Reports emerged last week suggesting that Valve was refusing to distribute games featuring AI-generated assets, sparking a debate within the gaming community. However, in a statement to IGN, Valve spokesperson Kaci Aitchison Boyle clarified the company's position.

Aitchison Boyle emphasised that Valve is not attempting to...

3 July 2023 | App Stores

Apple patent suggests Xcode will use ML to expedite development

Apple has long championed the idea that coding should be accessible to everyone and the company is making significant strides in leveraging machine learning (ML) to expedite app development.

While the focus has largely been on their proprietary ML models rather than adopting existing solutions like ChatGPT, a newly-granted patent suggests that Apple is actively exploring the integration of ML into its software development system, particularly within Xcode.

The patent,...

28 June 2023 | Artificial Intelligence

GitHub research highlights the impact of AI on developers

To gain deeper insights into how new AI tools and existing workflows impact the overall developer experience, GitHub partnered with Wakefield Research to survey 500 developers from enterprise companies across the US.

GitHub’s goal was to identify the barriers developers face. For example, the survey found that developers spend most of their time waiting for code reviews, builds, and tests, which negatively impacts their productivity and overall developer...

13 June 2023 | Artificial Intelligence

BUILD 2023: Microsoft wants every Windows dev ‘to be an AI developer’

Microsoft announced significant investments in tools during BUILD 2023 to democratise app development for the AI era on Windows.

Regardless of the architecture you're developing for, be it x86/x64 or Arm64, Microsoft wants to ensure that developers can easily integrate AI-powered experiences into their Windows apps, whether they run on the cloud or at the edge.

At the Build conference last year, Microsoft introduced Hybrid Loop, a development pattern that enables hybrid...

24 May 2023 | Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI threatens GPT4Free project with lawsuit 

OpenAI has reportedly sent a letter to a European computer science student who runs the GPT4Free project on GitHub, demanding that he takes the project down within five days or face a lawsuit.

GPT4Free provides free access to the GPT4 and GPT3.5 models by funnelling the queries through sites like You.com, Quora, and CoCalc, and giving back the answers.

All of the sites GPT4Free uses pay OpenAI fees to use its large language models, and the scripts mean that those sites...

2 May 2023 | API

Reddit to charge for API access over AI training concerns

Social news aggregation and discussion website Reddit will begin charging companies for access to its API.

Reddit says it’s making the decision over concerns about companies using the API to train large language models (LLMs).

The company says that its pricing will be divided into tiers to support companies of different sizes, with different usage limits and broader usage rights offered at each tier. However, the exact pricing details have not yet been...

19 April 2023 | API