Microsoft’s Xbox developing generative AI tools for game creators

Microsoft-owned Xbox is working on a set of generative artificial intelligence-powered tools for game developers that will enable them to use the new technology to build characters and storylines.

Xbox’s general manager of gaming AI, Haiyan Zhang, announced Monday the company has entered into a multiyear partnership with Inworld AI to build a toolset that will allow developers to utilize AI models aimed at accelerating and enhancing the creation of non-player characters (NPCs) a