Beyond benchmarks: How DeepSeek-R1 and o1 perform on real-world tasks
Source: Venture Beat o1 is slightly better at reasoning, but DeepSeek-R1 provides much more details about its reasoning, which is very useful to the user. Read Full Article
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Survive until 25? We’re off to a rough start | The DeanBeat
Source: Venture Beat Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Last year, the saying going around the game industry was Survive until 25. The hope was that things would get better after a very rough year for game layoffs and player doldrums. Now…
OpenAI’s o3-mini reasoning model arrives to counter DeepSeek
Source: Venture Beat Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI has released a new proprietary AI model in time to counter the rapid rise of open source rival DeepSeek R1 — but will it be enough to blunt the latter’s success? Today,…
Dan Houser’s Absurd Ventures teases animation project and action-comedy adventure game
Source: Venture Beat Dan Houser’s Absurd Ventures is teasing some new projects including an animated series and an action-comedy adventure game. Read Full Article
Cristiano Ronaldo teams with UFL free-to-play soccer game
Source: Venture Beat UFL, the new free-to-play soccer video game, is set to launch the Cristiano Ronaldo Team Pass, celebrating the soccer legend’s career. Read Full Article
Midnight Society shuts down and kills Dead Drop game
Source: Venture Beat In the wake of parting ways with gaming personality Dr. Disrespect, Midnight Society has closed its doors and killed the first-person shooter game Dead Drop. Read Full Article
Summer Game Fest debuts in LA on June 6 to June 9, 2025
Source: Venture Beat The sixth annual Summer Game Fest is returning to Los Angeles from June 6 to June 9, 2025. Hosted by The Game Awards creator Geoff Keighley, the main event will once again be a live kickoff show at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California, on Friday June 6. Then SGF: Play Days…
Meta uncharacteristically quiet about $5 billion in VR losses
Source: Venture Beat Meta is standing by their VR projects as their foot in the door for the Metaverse, but it’s becoming an expensive investment. Read Full Article
Former Google, Meta leaders launch Palona AI, bringing personalized, emotive customer agents to non-techie enterprises
Source: Venture Beat Palona’s approach suggests that customer relationships don’t have to be sacrificed for automation—instead, AI can enhance personalization. Read Full Article
Maingear unveils Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 series desktop gaming PCs and workstations
Source: Venture Beat Maingear unveiled its custom-configurable Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 Series gaming desktops, featuring the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 GPUs. Read Full Article