Elon Musk this week reiterated hopes to sometime make video games with considered one of his firms, saying that xAI might develop an AI-based online game studio in some unspecified time in the future.
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 observe got here in response to a different consumer on X who highlighted the beforehand laid out plans and shared a photograph of a number of the xAI staff, to which Musk responded “sure.”
Musk hasn’t but disclosed when xAI might begin growing 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 lately.
“Too many sport studios which might be owned by huge companies,” Musk wrote within the publish a couple of months in the past. “xAI goes to begin an AI sport studio to make video games nice once more!”
Appears to be like like Elon Musk is fairly critical about beginning a sport firm.🎮
Elon’s staff within the image may be very attention-grabbing. Complete throwback to the early SpaceX days with small, scrappy groups doing what each critic thought was not possible 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 sport by way of his firms a couple of completely different occasions through the years. In a publish on X final February concerning the potential of Tesla making its personal sport, Musk stated that he had been wanting to do this, although it must anticipate the corporate’s eventual launch of Unsupervised Full Self-Driving (FSD).
“I’ve needed to do this for a very long time,” Musk stated within the publish. “Our real-world simulation and video era is the most effective on this planet, 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 repeatedly posts about what video games he’s enjoying on X. In current weeks, Musk has additionally criticized modern gaming journalism, calling it “rubbish,” and agreeing with one other consumer 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 probably be debuted by way 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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