Xbox partners with Inworld AI to build AI tools for game development
Microsoft’s Xbox and Inworld AI have partnered to create AI-powered game development tools for narrative and character creation.
This multi-year co-development partnership is aimed to enable AI-inspired creativity in video games. The partnership is a quest to deliver an accessible, responsibly designed multi-platform AI toolset.
This toolset is geared toward assisting and empowering creators in dialogue, story, and quest design. Inworld AI recently raised $50 million at a $500 million valuation. Not bad for a new generative AI startup.
“Together, we aim to deliver an accessible, responsibly designed multi-platform AI toolset to assist and empower creators in dialogue, story, and quest design. As with all creator tools at Xbox, our goal is to deliver state-of-the-art AI for game developers of any size, anywhere in the world, and on every platform where players want to play,” said Haiyan Zhang, general manager of gaming AI at Xbox, in a statement. “We want to help make it easier for developers to realize their visions, try new things, push the boundaries of gaming today, and experiment to improve gameplay, player connection and more.”
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The collaborative effort will marry Inworld’s expertise in generative AI models for character development with Microsoft’s cutting-edge cloud-based AI solutions, including Azure OpenAI Service. And Microsoft Research’s technical insights into the future of play will play a pivotal role, and Team Xbox will contribute its strengths in developing accessible and responsible creator
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