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Musk Says xAI Will Ship a 'Great' AI-Generated Game by the End of 2026

The pledge follows xAI’s recruitment of paid tutors to train Grok in game design, signaling a human-in-the-loop approach many observers question.

Overview

  • Musk wrote on X that the xAI game studio will release a “great AI-generated game” before the end of next year.
  • xAI is hiring contract “video games tutor” roles paying about $45–$100 per hour to teach Grok design concepts, mechanics, and storytelling.
  • xAI intends to leverage its multimodal tools, including Aurora for text-to-image generation and Grok Imagine for six-second animated clips with sound.
  • Earlier xAI experiments produced simple versions of Tetris and Bubble Trouble, revealing quality and audio limitations in current outputs.
  • Coverage highlights broad skepticism about delivering a truly high-quality, fully AI-generated title on this timeline, noting mixed industry experiments such as Microsoft’s generative Quake II demo.