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AWS | October 11, 2022

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Trn1 instances powered by AWS-designed Trainium chips. Trn1 instances are purpose built for high-performance training of machine learning models in the cloud while offering up to 50% cost-to-train savings over comparable GPU-based instances. Trn1 instances provide the fastest time to train popular machine learning models on AWS, enabling cus...

Business

Luminate | March 17, 2022

the company formerly known as P-MRC Data, whose brands have been synonymous with signaling music trends as well as accurate and transparent entertainment industry data for decades, is now called Luminate. The entertainment industry can still expect the same objective, robust dataset comprising music sales, consumption, and consumer engagement, as well as extensive production metadata on the TV and film industry, as before. Going forward, Luminate will continue to create or i...

variety | January 29, 2020

Whip Media Group — formed by TV Time’s acquisition of Mediamorph last year — closed a new tranche of $50 million in funding that the company claims will let it build unprecedented tools for determining the value of TV show and movies in the global entertainment market. The funding was led by prior investor asset-management firm Eminence Capital, with participation from Raine Ventures. TV Time had previously raised $65 million from investors including Eminence Capital, Raine Ven...

Business

FORMLESS, Inc. | February 17, 2022

Today, FORMLESS, Inc. announced that Brandon Tory, has resigned his position as a technical lead on the Natural Language Accelerated team at Google AI, and is now operating in a full-time capacity as FORMLESS Founder and CEO. Tory and the team at FORMLESS are launching a decentralized distribution protocol and platform that changes how digital content, like music, is owned, distributed, and monetized. Tory, who is also a signed artist, was inspired to make the transition after yea...