Elon Musk Promises His xAI Studio Will Release a 'Great' AI-Generated Video Game and Grok Will Make a Movie That Is 'At Least Watchable' Both Before the End of 2026

Elon Musk has made a bid of ambitious predictions astir his AI tech and its quality to make video games and movies, though determination is simply a steadfast dose of scepticism online astir the claims.

In a tweet, the Tesla proprietor said his xAI crippled workplace volition usage Grok to merchandise a “great” AI-generated crippled earlier the extremity of adjacent year. The connection was portion of a QT of a video showing a rudimentary Call of Duty-style first-person shooter.

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Indeed, xAI has an unfastened presumption for a ‘Video Games Tutor’ who will, for $45/hour - $100/hour, bid Grok to nutrient “engaging, fun, innovative video games, enabling users to research AI-assisted crippled plan and fostering advancements successful interactive amusement done close annotations and iterative testing.”

The question of generative AI’s interaction connected video games is possibly the hottest taxable wrong the industry. In June, Epic Games brag Tim Sweeney predicted that tiny teams volition soon beryllium capable to usage AI prompts to marque video games connected the standard of Nintendo masterpiece The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Speaking to IGN astatine Epic’s State of Unreal 2025 lawsuit (where CD Projekt revealed a stunning The Witcher 4 tech demo), Sweeney said AI prompts volition beryllium “a cardinal part” of crippled engines, and volition effect successful “entirely caller genres of games invented that weren't imaginable oregon applicable before” without it.

Musk has made a fig of ambitious promises astir his AI tech, Grok. Photo by VINCENT FEURAY/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images.

But Larian Studios' publishing manager Michael "Cromwelp" Douse responded to Musk’s assertion to importune that AI “isn't going to lick the large occupation of the industry, which is enactment and vision.”

“Genuinely what this manufacture needs is not much mathematically produced, psychologically trained gameplay loops, alternatively much expressions of worlds that folks are engaged with, oregon privation to prosecute with,” Douse said. “AI has its spot arsenic a tool, but we person each the tools successful the satellite and they aren't compensating for the unthinkable deficiency of cogent direction.”

Douse continued: “There simply is nary resonance without communal respect. There is nary communal respect without respect for craft. There is nary trade without the quality touch; the comparative accomplishment issue, oregon 'the accumulation of otherness.' To crook games into digital, emotionless contented is to wantonness each resonance... which is wherefore radical play!”

Musk is of people infamous for making breached promises, not conscionable astir Tesla, SpaceX, and his Cybertruck, but societal advancement successful general. “My predictions astir achieving afloat self-driving person been optimistic successful the past,” Musk admitted to investors successful 2023. “I’m the lad who cried FSD." Earlier this twelvemonth helium claimed robots volition fig successful the tens of billions and beryllium similar “your ain idiosyncratic C-3PO oregon R2-D2, but adjacent better.”

But his predictions for Grok didn’t halt with video games. In a much caller tweet, Musk claimed Grok volition marque a movie that is “at slightest watchable earlier the extremity of adjacent twelvemonth and truly bully movies successful 2027.” That connection came arsenic portion of a QT of a six-second video showing generic Hollywood action.

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Like with video games, generative AI is the blistery taxable successful the movie industry. Last week, SAG-AFTRA issued a powerfully worded connection successful effect to the emergence of Tilly Norwood, the AI-generated “actress” that had enraged Hollywood. The backlash online has been vociferous, and it remains to beryllium seen if Tilly Norwood really goes anywhere.

And past there’s the precise existent information of copyright infringement associated with the usage of generative AI. Over the weekend, OpenAI vowed to springiness copyright holders “more granular control” implicit quality procreation aft its Sora 2 app produced a flood of videos that depicted copyrighted characters — including those owned by Nintendo.

Indeed, Musk himself has had problems of his ain with this issue. Last year, posts connected Twitter containing images of Nintendo’s iconic mascot generated by Grok were pulled offline owed to takedown notices.

Meanwhile, Disney and Universal person sued the AI representation creator Midjourney, alleging that the institution improperly utilized and distributed AI-generated characters from their movies. Disney besides sent a cease and desist missive to Character.AI, informing the startup to halt utilizing its copyrighted characters without authorization.

“A batch of the videos that radical are going to make of these cartoon characters are going to infringe copyright,” Mark Lemley, a prof astatine Stanford Law School, told CNBC. “OpenAI is opening itself up to rather a batch of copyright lawsuits by doing this.”

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