{"id":419,"date":"2025-03-28T09:22:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T10:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.keepinitcoolhvac.com\/?p=419"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:47:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T12:47:37","slug":"m80-teams-up-with-ai-platform-omnic-to-bolster-coaching-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keepinitcoolhvac.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/m80-teams-up-with-ai-platform-omnic-to-bolster-coaching-capabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"M80 teams up with AI platform Omnic to bolster coaching capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"M80 teams up with AI platform Omnic to bolster coaching capabilities\" class=\"wp-image-172589 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/OMNIC-x-M80-1-large.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image Credit: M80\/Omnic AI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div id=\"esi-paragraph-6818b2732516a\" class=\"esi-paragraph \">\n<p>North American esports organisation\u00a0<strong>M80<\/strong> has announced a partnership with AI platform <strong>Omnic.AI<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"esi-paragraph-6818b27325785\" class=\"esi-paragraph \">\n<p>According to a release, M80 will utilise Omnic AI&#8217;s <strong>Omnic Forge AI <\/strong>tool to support its in-person coaching across the organisation&#8217;s current esports rosters and programmes, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imgacademy.com\/sport-camps\/esports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">M80 x IMG Academy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"keep-reading \" id=\"kr-6818b273265d8\">\n<div class=\"heading section__title \"><span>Keep Reading<\/span><\/div>\n<ul class=\"d-flex flex-column\">\n<li id=\"post-167859\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2025\/02\/m80-budega-vivas-released\">M80 announces departures of Budega and Vivas<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"post-160735\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2024\/12\/m80-announces-beastcoast-acquisition\">M80 announces Beastcoast acquisition<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"post-159096\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2024\/10\/playvs-omnic-ai-partnership\">Omnic.AI partners with PlayVS for varsity and middle school projects<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"esi-paragraph-6818b2732748f\" class=\"esi-paragraph \">\n<p>The Omnic Forge AI coaching tool utilises computer vision and deep learning to analyze players&#8217; gameplay and identify opportunities for improvement. This includes providing personalised advice, tracking players&#8217; progress and comparing them to top players.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"esi-paragraph-6818b27327a89\" class=\"esi-paragraph \">\n<p>Founded in 2021 by MIT alumnus and former nuclear engineer Shaun Meredith, Omnic&#8217;s AI tool is currently available for VALORANT, Fortnite, Rocket League, Overwatch 2 and Madden NFL 25, with more to be added in the near future.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"esi-paragraph-6818b27328040\" class=\"esi-paragraph \">\n<p>The partnership with M80 further expands Omnic&#8217;s presence in the esports sector. Earlier last year, the AI company signed a partnership deal with North America\u2019s largest <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2024\/10\/playvs-omnic-ai-partnership\">scholastic esports platform PlayVS<\/a>, allowing its students to use Omnic Forge for free and assisting them during training sessions. The company previously also partnered up with <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2023\/09\/omnic-ai-belong-gaming-francis-thai\">gaming arena operator\u00a0<strong>Belong Gaming<\/strong><\/a> to focus on the UK and European markets.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"esi-paragraph-6818b27328623\" class=\"esi-paragraph \">\n<p>\u201cBy partnering with Omnic.AI, we\u2019re offering both our current pros and emerging talent with 24-7 free access to resources that will level up their game,&#8221; commented <strong>Marco Mereu, M80 Founder and CEO<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"esi-paragraph-6818b27328c0b\" class=\"esi-paragraph \">\n<p>&#8220;M80 has always embraced the opportunities that cutting-edge technology unlocks, and we\u2019re leaning on it now to help our teams gain an edge over the competition.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"esi-heading-6818b273291fd\" class=\"esi-heading \">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span id=\"m80_continues_to_strengthen_its_operations-2\">M80 Continues to Strengthen its Operations<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"esi-paragraph-6818b273297b4\" class=\"esi-paragraph \">\n<p>M80 is a multi-title esports organisation that competes across VALORANT, Dota 2, Rainbow Six: Siege, Counter-Strike and eNASCAR.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"esi-paragraph-6818b27329d75\" class=\"esi-paragraph \">\n<p>At the end of 2024, the company completed the <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2024\/12\/m80-announces-beastcoast-acquisition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">acquisition of Beastcoast<\/a> to retain its Dota 2 team, marking its entry into Valve&#8217;s game title. Additionally, the acquisition included Beastcoast&#8217;s Pokemon media business and brought in key staff members like Grant Zinn, who is now M80&#8217;s Chief Business Development Officer.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"esi-paragraph-6818b2732a32b\" class=\"esi-paragraph \">\n<p>Despite its late creation, the company successfully\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2023\/05\/m80-esports-organisation-3m-investment\">raised $3m (~\u00a32.43m)<\/a>\u00a0in a seed investment round in 2023, and successfully involved tennis star\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2023\/11\/daniil-medvedev-tennis-m80-ownership-group\">Daniil Medvedev in the company&#8217;s ownership group<\/a>. M80\u2019s commercial portfolio also includes the likes of cryptocurrency software platform\u00a0Exodus, Zowie, Secretlab and Aimlab, among others.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2025\/03\/m80-teams-up-with-ai-platform-omnic-to-bolster-coaching-capabilities\">M80 teams up with AI platform Omnic to bolster coaching capabilities<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\">Esports Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Credit: M80\/Omnic AI North American esports organisation\u00a0M80 has announced a partnership with AI platform Omnic.AI. According to a release, M80 will utilise Omnic AI&#8217;s Omnic Forge AI tool to support its in-person coaching across the organisation&#8217;s current esports rosters and programmes, such as M80 x IMG Academy. Keep Reading M80 announces departures of Budega [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rainbow-six-siege"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keepinitcoolhvac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keepinitcoolhvac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keepinitcoolhvac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keepinitcoolhvac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keepinitcoolhvac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.keepinitcoolhvac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"http:\/\/www.keepinitcoolhvac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keepinitcoolhvac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keepinitcoolhvac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keepinitcoolhvac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keepinitcoolhvac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}