Elon Musk this week reiterated hopes to sometime make video games with one among 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 recreation studio, the multi-company CEO reiterated these plans on Monday. The be aware 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 crew, 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 lately.
“Too many recreation studios which are owned by huge companies,” Musk wrote within the submit 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 critical about beginning a recreation firm.🎮
Elon’s crew 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 way of his corporations a couple of completely different occasions over time. In a submit on X final February relating to the potential of Tesla making its personal recreation, Musk stated that he had been wanting to try this, although it must await the corporate’s eventual launch of Unsupervised Full Self-Driving (FSD).
“I’ve wished to try this for a very long time,” Musk stated within the submit. “Our real-world simulation and video technology 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 commonly posts about what video games he’s taking part in on X. In current weeks, Musk has additionally criticized modern 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 will likely be debuted by way of a stay 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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