Edward Saatchi at the Virtual Beings Summit
Edward Saatchi at the Virtual Beings Summit
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Virtual Beings grants will fund projects for creating artificial living things

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Edward Saatchi, the cofounder of the virtual beings company Fable Studio, announced at a new conference the first Virtual Beings grants.

Saatchi made the announcement at the very first Virtual Beings Summit in Fort Mason in San Francisco. The idea is to inspire creators to use a combination of the animation technology in things like video games with artificial intelligence.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.