Tencent's GameGen-O looks like the first step towards an AI game engine

Just two weeks ago, Google researchers revealed the results of their experiments recreating Doom with AI using GameNGen. We were impressed, but it didn't exactly make it look like we'd be seeing AI game generation anytime very soon. But now the Chinese tech company Tencent has dropped a research paper that appears to lay the foundations for AI game engines.

Tencent's GameGen-O is described as the first diffusion transformer model tailored for the generation of open-world video games. The paper says that it allows high-quality, open-domain generation by simulating characters, dynamic environments, complex actions and events.

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Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq. He writes news, features and buying guides and keeps track of the best equipment and software for creatives, from video editing programs to monitors and accessories. A veteran news writer and photographer, he now works as a project manager at the London and Buenos Aires-based design, production and branding agency Hermana Creatives. There he manages a team of designers, photographers and video editors who specialise in producing visual content and design assets for the hospitality sector. He also dances Argentine tango.