Tech billionaire and Trump supporter Elon Musk apparently sees AI as a solution to many problems.
Musk also seems to have a problem with the gaming industry: according to several postings onto “woke”anddominated by large corporations. A circumstance that he now wants to change with the help of AI.
Mit Trump-Slogan ins Gaming
Musk literally said that “too many game developers are in the hands of large corporations.” Musk therefore wants a company from his own conglomerate to take matters into his own hands: xAI.
Musk announces that a games studio will be created in his Californian AI company. The declared goal: "Make games great again" - a direct allusion to Donald Trump's right-wing populist slogan "Make America great again" (MAGA for short).
In the 2024 US presidential election campaign, Musk emerged as a key campaign donor for Trump.
Which company is behind it?
Musk has yet to provide a more detailed explanation of what these games will look like, who should develop them and why games in general need to be made “great” again. It is also unclear how his company should differ from the “large corporations” that he criticizes.
In any case, the company has pure computing power: xAI operates a supercomputer for AI trainingfrom over 100,000 Nvidia graphics cardsconsists. It is not yet known whether experienced game developers are also on board.
In any case, xAI has so far had nothing to do with gaming: the original company goal was to use AI to “discover the true nature of our universe.”
Most recently, xAI developed Grok, a generative chatbot in the style of ChatGPT, and made it available to paying customers on X (formerly Twitter).
Musk and AI
AI has long been a thing. Musk bought Twitter (now X) in 2022, fired around 80 percent of the employees and increasingly relied on automation. As a result, however, the spread of misinformation and hate messages as well as bot usage on the platform increasedsignificantly on.
At his company Tesla, Musk also relies on AI, with which the vehicles should be largely autonomous. But self-driving cars from Tesla are repeatedly involved in accidents, some of them serious, which is why US authorities are now removing 2.4 million vehicles, according to a study“deadliest US car brand”officially on thePut the test bench.
Musk im Gaming
Musk is always making a name for himself in gaming circles - for example with his strange builds in Elden Ring, an alleged placement in the endgame world rankings of Diablo 4 or an appearance at a Valorant tournament in 2023, where fans chanted "Bring back." “Twitter” sang in response.
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