Microsoft researchers have achieved what many in artificial intelligence considered a distant goal: teaching AI to understand and interact with three-dimensional spaces the way humans do. The breakthrough comes in the form of Muse, an AI model that can comprehend and generate complex gameplay sequences while maintaining consistent physics and character behaviors.
The model, detailed in a paper…
Muse is Xbox’s generative AI model for gameplay ideation
February 20, 2025
Microsoft Research unveiled Muse, the company’s first generative AI model designed for gameplay ideation.
Fatima Kardar, corporate vice president of gaming AI at Microsoft, said in a blog post that we hear about how AI is transforming our lives daily. How will it show up…
Crunchbase’s AI can predict startup success with 95% accuracy—will it change investing?
February 20, 2025
Crunchbase will abandon its roots as a historical data provider to become an AI-powered predictions engine that forecasts startup funding rounds, acquisitions and company growth trajectories.
The San Francisco-based company announced today it will relaunch its platform with…
AI agents are set to change ID authorization: As they integrate behind the scenes, they will need to move seamlessly between different apps on our behalf, and not get continually halted by login screens, lest they become cumbersome.
“Every app, or almost every app, will need to function as its own identity provider in the future,” Reed McGinley-Stempel, CEO of authorization platform Stytch…
Earlier today, the heads of Microsoft’s Xbox division revealed Muse, a generative AI model that intends to create both visuals and gameplay for games.
The model, which was trained on the largely forgotten Ninja Theory multiplayer game Bleeding Edge, is not a shocking leap…
Breaking down Grok 3: The AI model that could redefine the industry
February 20, 2025
Less than two years since its launch, xAI has shipped what could arguably be the most advanced AI model to date. Grok 3 matches or beats the most advanced models on all key benchmarks as well as the user-evaluated Chatbot Arena, and its training has not even been completed…
Elon Musk just released an AI that’s smarter than ChatGPT — here’s why that matters
February 19, 2025
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has unveiled Grok 3, its latest AI model that the company claims outperforms leading competitors across key technical benchmarks. The announcement marks a significant escalation in the race to develop more powerful AI systems.
The launch comes just days after Elon Musk’s failed $97.4 billion bid to acquire OpenAI, the company he co-founded with…
AI can fix bugs—but can’t find them: OpenAI’s study highlights limits of LLMs in software engineering
February 19, 2025
Large language models (LLMs) may have changed software development, but enterprises will need to think twice about entirely replacing human software engineers with LLMs, despite OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s claim that models can replace “low-level” engineers. In a new…
Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati unveils Thinking Machines: A startup focused on multimodality, human-AI collaboration
February 19, 2025
Ever since Mira Murati departed OpenAI last fall, many have wondered about the former CTO’s next move. Well, now we know (or, at least have a rough idea). Murati took to X today to announce her new venture Thinking Machines Lab, an AI research and product company with a…
Perplexity has shattered the AI market’s status quo today by launching Deep Research, a tool that generates comprehensive research reports in minutes and opens advanced AI capabilities to users at a fraction of typical enterprise costs.
“Thankful for open source! We’re going to keep making this faster and cheaper,” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas wrote in a post on X. “Knowledge should…
