Elon Musk this week reiterated hopes to sometime make video games with considered one of his corporations, saying that xAI might develop an AI-based online game studio in some unspecified time in the future.
After Musk first mentioned on X in November that xAI would begin an AI recreation studio, the multi-company CEO reiterated these plans on Monday. The observe got here in response to a different person on X who highlighted the beforehand laid out plans and shared a photograph of a few of the xAI staff, to which Musk responded “sure.”
Musk hasn’t but disclosed when xAI might 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 business, initially highlighting hopes for an AI recreation studio as a part of a criticism about who’s making video games today.
“Too many recreation studios which can be owned by large firms,” Musk wrote within the submit a couple of months in the past. “xAI goes to start out an AI recreation studio to make video games nice once more!”
Seems to be like Elon Musk is fairly severe about beginning a recreation firm.🎮
Elon’s staff within the image could be very fascinating. Whole 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 basic posting about online game fandom on X, Musk has expressed his want to develop a recreation via his corporations a couple of completely different instances through the years. In a submit on X final February concerning the potential of Tesla making its personal recreation, Musk mentioned that he had been wanting to try this, although it must look ahead to the corporate’s eventual launch of Unsupervised Full Self-Driving (FSD).
“I’ve wished to try this for a very long time,” Musk mentioned within the submit. “Our real-world simulation and video technology is one of the best on the earth, however sadly making a recreation can solely come after we launch unsupervised FSD that’s far safer than even supervised FSD.”
Musk additionally developed his personal recreation in 1984 known as “Blastar,” and he commonly posts about what video games he’s enjoying on X. In current weeks, Musk has additionally criticized up to date gaming journalism, calling it “rubbish,” and agreeing with one other person 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 will probably 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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