Microsoft has announced a new generative AI model designed for gameplay ideation. The company detailed what it calls the first World and Human Action Model (WHAM). The WHAM, Katja Hofmann, Senior Principal Research Manager and lead of the Microsoft Research Game Intelligence team,

Microsoft debuts Muse, a world and human action model that uses generative AI to put together gameplay snippets.

Microsoft announced a new Ai model called Muse, that will help developers change the gameplay and refresh older games. Here's more about it.

Muse is Microsoft's new generative AI for game development that promises to be a gameplay concept tool – it will ideate playable ideas, building game visuals, controller inputs and more. It sounds groundbreaking but Muse feels like a tech experiment rather than the game development revolution Microsoft is pitching.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has also been weighing in on this recently, speaking a bit about the 'Muse' model on the Dwarkesh Podcast. During the chat, Nadella explained why he thinks it's a "massive 'wow' moment for the gaming team:

Microsoft has developed an AI model called the World and Human Action Model (WHAM), aka Muse, which it's using to replace human gamers in video-game development. But is the future of gaming pure AI?

Microsoft Research has created Muse, a first-of-its-kind generative AI model that can generate a game environment based on visuals or players’ controller actions. It understands a 3D game world and game physics and can react to how players interact with a game.

Microsoft’s Muse is built on the World and Human Action Model (WHAM) and is intended to enhance developers’ creativity.

Microsoft has unveiled an artificial intelligence model designed to generate visuals and actions for video games – but fans are not happy.

Ideally, these models could infer a simulated understanding of how in-game objects and characters should behave based on video footage alone, then create fully interactive video that instantly simulates new playable worlds based on that understanding.

Microsoft unveiled artificial intelligence tools that can create video game scenes that would normally have to be programmed by a human.