Elon Musk this week reiterated hopes to sometime make video games with certainly one of his firms, saying that xAI may develop an AI-based online game studio sooner or later.
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 word got here in response to a different person on X who highlighted the beforehand laid out plans and shared a photograph of among 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 recreation studio as a part of a grievance about who’s making video games today.
“Too many recreation studios which are owned by large companies,” Musk wrote within the put up a couple of months in the past. “xAI goes to begin an AI recreation studio to make video games nice once more!”
Appears like Elon Musk is fairly severe about beginning a recreation firm.🎮
Elon’s workforce within the image could be very fascinating. 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 basic posting about online game fandom on X, Musk has expressed his need to develop a recreation by means of his firms a couple of completely different occasions over time. In a put up on X final February relating to the potential of Tesla making its personal recreation, Musk mentioned that he had been wanting to do this, although it must await the corporate’s eventual launch of Unsupervised Full Self-Driving (FSD).
“I’ve wished to do this for a very long time,” Musk mentioned within the put up. “Our real-world simulation and video era is the very best on this planet, 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 referred to as “Blastar,” and he often 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 have been sick of “woke gaming.”
The assertion comes forward of Musk and xAI’s launch of Grok 3 on Monday night, which shall be debuted by means of 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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