Major updates to Riva, an SDK for building speech AI applications, and a paid Riva Enterprise offering were announced at NVIDIA GTC 2022 last week. Several key updates to NeMo Megatron, a framework for training Large Language Models, were also announced. Riva 2.0 general availability Riva offers world-class accuracy for real-time automatic speech recognition (ASR)[…..] […]
BIG Festival is the tiggest business hub for games in Latin America and more than US$ 65 million in deals generated in the last in person edition! The 2022 schedule is available starting in May. MEETINGS IN PERSON AND ONLINE Argentina will be participating in BIG Festival 2022 virtually, and on-site with a pavilion in[…..] […]
Award-winning global independent animation studio ZAG announced that since opening its first Latin American office in Mexico City, Mexico–just six months ago–over thirty new licensees, retailers and various promotional partners have come on board to partner with the company’s flagship brand, Miraculous – Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. The announcement was made by Julian[…..] […]
SUPERPROD group is pleased to announce the appointment of Laléh Chloé Sahraï as Head of Recruitment & Talent Development. This fresh acquisition follows the rapid organic growth of the group’s studios in Paris, Angoulême, and Milan, which now employ nearly 600 people in total. With several years of experience in the digital and animation production[…..] […]
Rainbow Six Siege’s South Asia Nationals 2022 are set to take place in winter 2022, inviting players from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh to compete for a prize pool of $10,000. Ahead of the Nationals, Ubisoft has partnered with The Esports Club to host a series of online events for the South Asian Rainbow[…..] […]
Kidscreen Summit is renowned as the kids entertainment industry’s most important annual event. In 2020, the last in-person Summit welcomed more than 2,000 attendees from 50-plus countries. Top executives attend regularly to take advantage of the year’s best business networking, and to engage in critical dialogue on issues that affect the industry. This year, New[…..] […]
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Poirier will leverage corporate development experience to accelerate Intel’s IDM 2.0 strategy and strengthen its leadership role. Intel Corporation announced that Matt Poirier has been appointed senior vice president of corporate development, effective May 30, 2022. Poirier has more than 20 years of leadership, finance and corporate development experience with a focus on mergers, acquisitions[…..] […]
The Meknes® International Animation Film Festival is back this year and celebrates its 20th anniversary. This anniversary edition will mark 20 years of emotions, smiles and sharing. In 2002, a daring bet with the brand Aïcha whose communication in cartoons made Meknes two decades later, the capital of animated cinema in Morocco and Africa. Since[…..] […]
It’s celebration time for the Sommets du cinéma d’animation, returning this spring from May 10 to 15 at the Cinémathèque québécoise, with a rich, complete, diversified and exciting program. For this year’s edition – its twentieth – the festival has curated 114 animated films from around the world, including an expansive group of Canadian films[…..] […]
