Elon Musk has announced the creation of xAI Gaming Studio, a gaming studio that will develop projects using artificial intelligence (AI). The announcement was made during a live broadcast dedicated to the launch of the Grok-3 model. As a demonstration of the capabilities of the AI model, the developers showed how it is able to generate an analogue of Tetris in the Python programming language.
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The model has already demonstrated the ability to generate simple 2D games. One user posted a test case where Grok 3 created a basic version of Bubble Trouble with physics, collisions, and a simple interface. However, it turned out that the model cannot yet correctly reproduce the retro sound effects described in the user request.
Musk claims that Grok-3 can upscale graphics in games. However, it is unclear whether this technology only works in games created by the AI itself, or if it can be used separately, similar to image scaling technologies from Nvidia (DLSS Super Resolution) and AMD (FidelityFX Super Resolution).
The biggest challenge for the new studio, however, is creating dynamically generated games with photorealistic graphics. Grok is currently limited to relatively simple 2D projects, and it remains to be seen whether xAI Gaming Studio will be able to create more complex, dynamically generated games, but Musk, as always, is aiming for the best.
It already seems clear that the industry is gradually introducing AI technologies into game development. In January, Capcom announced a partnership with Google Cloud and the use of generative AI to create background elements. However, xAI seems to have a more ambitious goal – not just developing tools for studios, but creating full-fledged game projects, especially since Elon Musk plans to expand the Colossus supercomputer to a million GPUs, which could speed up the development of new, even more advanced AI models.