ByteDance is selling its Moonton game unit to Savvy Games for a cool $6 billion - Engadget
… ByteDance has been winding down its gaming arm and shopping Moonton since 2023 , just two years after it first acquired the developer. …
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bytedance released an open source model that attempts to do just about anything with only 3b parameters
EDIT: working link https://huggingface.co/bytedance-research/Lance Lance is a lightweight native unified multimodal model that supports image and video understanding, generation, and editing within a single framework. Ef…
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Show HN: VQAScore – open eval metric/reward model, now for text-to-video
Two years ago we released VQAScore: ask a VLM "does this image show {prompt}?" and use P(Yes) as the score. It became a go-to evaluation metric and reward model for image generation, replacing CLIPScore across the field …
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Savvy Games acquires Mobile Legends developer Moonton for $6 billion
Savvy Games has acquired Mobile Legends developer Moonton from TikTok owner ByteDance for $6 billion. Rumors that ByteDance was in "advanced talks" to sell Moonton Technology to Savvy Games Group for between $6 and $7 billion first began to swirl last week. …
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… Cloud, and ByteDance i ByteDance ByteDance is a Chinese internet technology company that owns TikTok and Douyin, a Chinese version of TikTok with a successful e-commerce arm. ’s Volcano Engine have offered Moltbot access combined with their own compute packages. …
Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games Group to acquire TikTok-maker's games unit Moonton for over $6 billion
… It was previously reported that Savvy wanted to purchase Moonton, the mobile games unit of Chinese TikTok creator ByteDance, with a proposed $5-7 billion valuation. It's now been revealed that Savvy and ByteDance have agreed on a purchase deal worth over $6 billion. …
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