Katarzyna Petru
xAI wants to revolutionize gaming, and Grok is set to be the engine of a new era of entertainment; Elon Musk is surprising us again. After electric cars, rockets, and artificial intelligence, it's time for… video games. His company xAI, mainly known for developing the AI assistant Grok and gigantic data centers, plans to release the first game fully created by AI next year.
“We will make a game like no other”
“Studio XAI will release a great AI-generated game before the end of next year” – Musk wrote on the X platform (formerly Twitter). The idea is not accidental. Musk has long been an avid gamer — he frequently streams Diablo IV, and his fascination with virtual worlds goes hand in hand with frustration over the “woke agenda” in Hollywood and the gaming industry. This is said to be the reason the billionaire decided to create an “alternative to politicized entertainment.”
The project began in November 2024, when Musk assembled his own team of game developers.
Gigantic data centers and AI power of ChooseTV
xAI is not just the Grok assistant competing with ChatGPT, but also a massive computing infrastructure. The first Colossus data center is already operational, and Colossus 2 is set to launch in 2026 and become the first data center in the world with gigawatt power.
With this, Musk aims to achieve efficiency on the order of 5–10 exaflops – enough not only to "solve the mysteries of the universe," as he says, but also to generate realistic real-time games.
From Pong to Photorealism
AI assistants – like Grok or ChatGPT – can already create simple games, for example, clones of Pong or flight simulators. But Musk is taking it a step further.
The xAI team is experimenting with techniques for generating photorealistic graphics and adaptive worlds, which AI could build dynamically during gameplay.
Ultimately, Grok is expected to design entire worlds and levels on its own, and even "play in them" to learn and modify code on the fly – similar to Tesla's learning systems in autonomous cars.
AI Enters the Gaming Industry
Not only Musk sees the future in this. Capcom and other major studios are also testing AI tools that speed up the game development process. But it is xAI that may be the first to allow AI to become a full-fledged creator, rather than just a developer's assistant.
If Musk keeps his word, the first game created by artificial intelligence will appear before the end of 2026.
Will it be just a technological curiosity, or the beginning of a new era in gaming? It's hard to predict — but one thing is certain: Musk plans to shake the industry up again.
