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Global bank messaging network SWIFT is planning a new platform in the next one to two years to connect the wave of central bank digital currencies now in development to the existing finance system. The move, which would be one of the most significant yet for the nascent CBDC ecosystem given SWIFT's key role in global banking, is likely to be fine-tuned to when the first major ones are launched. SWIFT's head of innovation, Nick Kerigan, said its latest trial, which took 6 months and involved a 38-member group of central banks, commercial banks and settlement platforms, had been one of the largest global collaborations on CBDCs and "tokenised" assets to date. Source: Reuters @FutureGoTechSummit

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NVIDIA continues to push the possibilities of AI integration within video games, focusing on character voice creation, expressive animation, and adaptive dialogue. At the recent Game Developers Conference, a spotlight fell on “Covert Protocol”, a tech demo built in collaboration with Inworld AI. This demo explores the concept of player-influenced storylines, where interactions with AI-powered characters can yield different gameplay outcomes.

At GDC 2024, Inworld and NVIDIA collaborated on a new technology demo called Covert Protocol to showcase NVIDIA ACE technologies and the Inworld Engine. In the Covert Protocol tech demo, you act as a private detective who completes objectives based on the outcome of conversations with characters in the scene.

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Grok, the AI tool founded by Elon Musk, has been open sourced, with a code release now available on GitHub. Musk had previously stated that Grok would go open source this week, saying the move will allow developers and researchers to look into the model and build upon it, and possibly influence its future iterations. A blog post on xAI's website describes how the open release of Grok-1 contains the “weights and network architecture” of the underlying model, called Mixture-of-Experts. It is being released under the Apache 2.0 license, which allows for commercial use and distribution, but no warranty or liability is provided, and it cannot be trademarked. Grok was completed in October last year, and was developed using JAX and Rust as the foundation for the custom training stack. It allegedly takes a novel approach to neural networks, and makes use of only a quarter of its weights per token, which means that, in theory, it is more effective and efficient than its rivals. Source: TechRadar @FutureGoTechSummit

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Bitcoin hit a record high above $72,000 The world's most valuable cryptocurrency has been boosted by a flood of cash into new spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds as well as hopes that the Federal Reserve will soon cut interest rates. Supply of bitcoin, which is limited to 21 million tokens, is going to get tighter in April, when the so-called halving event takes place. Every four years, the rate at which new supply is released into circulation, as well as the reward for crypto miners, is halved, which tends to support the price. Ether rose 2.1% to nudge $4,000, around its highest for two years. Speculation that U.S. regulators may approve the listing of spot ether ETFs this year has driven the price up 75% this year. @FutureGoTechSummit

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