Elon Musk this week reiterated hopes to sometime make video games with considered one of his corporations, saying that xAI may develop an AI-based online game studio sooner or later.
After Musk first stated on X in November that xAI would begin an AI sport studio, the multi-company CEO reiterated these plans on Monday. The notice got here in response to a different consumer on X who highlighted the beforehand laid out plans and shared a photograph of a few of the xAI workforce, to which Musk responded “sure.”
Musk hasn’t but disclosed when xAI may begin creating AI-generated video games, although he has beforehand expressed pursuits in making video games—regardless of it not being the highest precedence.
He has additionally been outspoken about a few of his opinions on videogames and the media panorama for the trade, initially highlighting hopes for an AI sport studio as a part of a criticism about who’s making video games today.
“Too many sport studios which might be owned by large companies,” Musk wrote within the publish just a few months in the past. “xAI goes to start out an AI sport studio to make video games nice once more!”
Seems to be like Elon Musk is fairly severe about beginning a sport firm.🎮
Elon’s workforce within the image could be very attention-grabbing. Complete throwback to the early SpaceX days with small, scrappy groups doing what each critic thought was unattainable or futile. pic.twitter.com/JG0QldggTg
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Credit score: xAI | Grok
Credit score: xAI | Grok
Credit score: xAI | Grok
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Past his common posting about online game fandom on X, Musk has expressed his want to develop a sport via his corporations just a few completely different instances over time. In a publish on X final February concerning the potential of Tesla making its personal sport, Musk stated that he had been wanting to try this, although it must anticipate the corporate’s eventual launch of Unsupervised Full Self-Driving (FSD).
“I’ve needed to try this for a very long time,” Musk stated within the publish. “Our real-world simulation and video technology is one of the best on the earth, however sadly making a sport can solely come after we launch unsupervised FSD that’s far safer than even supervised FSD.”
Musk additionally developed his personal sport in 1984 referred to as “Blastar,” and he often posts about what video games he’s taking part in on X. In latest weeks, Musk has additionally criticized up to date gaming journalism, calling it “rubbish,” and agreeing with one other consumer who says that they had been sick of “woke gaming.”
The assertion comes forward of Musk and xAI’s launch of Grok 3 on Monday night, which can be debuted via a reside demo. In December, xAI additionally made the Grok mannequin free to all X customers, after beforehand requiring them to pay for a premium account for the social media platform.
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