Ampverse: Product Launch
Ampverse released major gaming marketing report revealing fundamental shift in SEA gaming distribution from traditional influencer/ad model to creator-led trust-based strategy
Source: e27 (SEA VC)
The leadership read
Product momentum tends to widen gaming & gambling product and commercial leadership bench strength.
Market context: MitchelLake's Talent Market Index sits at 98.6 (Neutral), down 1.4 on the prior month; Asia hiring signal is running rising (+2.4pts).
Ampverse: 1 signal in the last 90 days — in line with the Gaming & Gambling median of 1 across 3 tracked companies; 0.1% of MitchelLake's Asia signal flow.
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Product Launch · Asia
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Product Launch · Asia
Converge →Converge launched Converge Cloud, a sovereign cloud stack designed to support sovereign computing, AI readiness, and data residency for Filipino enterprises.
Product Launch · Asia
Gnani.ai →Gnani.ai launched Prisma v2.5, a speech-to-text model spanning 12 languages with support for Indian dialects, code-switching, and noise handling. Trained on 14M hours of proprietary Indic speech data. Positioned as outperforming global competitors (ElevenLabs, Sarvam AI, Microsoft) on WER/CER metrics with lower latency via local Indian data center hosting.
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