Xbox just announced a multi-year partnership with Inworld AI to bring generative AI to game narrative and character design. The collaboration will produce an AI design copilot that turns developer prompts into scripts and dialogue trees, alongside an in-game runtime engine that dynamically generates quests and dialogue for players.
OpenAI just launched GPTs, allowing users to create tailored versions of ChatGPT simply by chatting with a builder and plugging in custom instructions, files, and external APIs. A GPT Store is coming later this month with leaderboards and future revenue sharing. It basically turns everyone into an AI app builder, available now to Plus and Enterprise users.
OpenAI just unveiled GPT-4 Turbo at DevDay, boosting context length to 128K tokens while slashing input prices by 3x and output by 2x. It also launched the Assistants API with built-in retrieval and code execution, effectively handling the messy state management developers previously had to build from scratch.
ElevenLabs just launched a unified enterprise AI voice platform split into two engines: ElevenAgents for customer-facing bots and ElevenCreative for high-fidelity audio production. It integrates out of the box with tools like Salesforce and Zendesk, giving companies an easy path to deploy voice agents at scale.
DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg just reaffirmed his decade-old forecast, stating there is still a 50-50 chance researchers hit artificial general intelligence (AGI) by 2028. Legg noted that compute is already in place and the next milestone is training models on data scales far beyond a human lifetime, though defining and testing true general intelligence remains tricky.
Boston Dynamics just turned its Spot robot into an autonomous tour guide by wiring it up to ChatGPT, Whisper, and BLIP-2. The quadruped can now inspect its surroundings, navigate on the fly, and banter with visitors in whatever persona it is assigned—including a sarcastic guide. Why it matters: It shows how foundation models can give physical robots commonsense reasoning, even if a 6-second latency and hallucinations remain pain points.
Quora's Poe platform just launched a monetization program that pays creators for building AI chatbots. Developers and prompt creators can earn up to $20 when their bot drives a new subscription, with per-message pricing arriving soon. The move turns Poe into an app store for conversational bots, though it is currently limited to U.S. creators.
Researchers from ANU, Oxford, and BAAI just developed 3D-GPT, an AI system that translates text prompts into 3D environments. By deploying specialized agents to conceptualize scenes and write code directly for Blender, it automates procedural 3D modeling. It isn't photorealistic yet, but it signals a major shift toward text-driven asset creation.
NVIDIA Research just revealed Eureka, an AI agent powered by GPT-4 that autonomously writes reward algorithms to train robots via reinforcement learning. It taught robotic hands to spin pens, open drawers, and toss balls, beating human-written reward code on over 80% of tasks with an average 50% performance boost.
OpenAI is reportedly planning major developer updates at its upcoming November 6 conference to slash costs by up to 20 times. The upgrades include a memory-enabled stateful API to curb token usage and vision capabilities for analyzing images. Why it matters: OpenAI wants to cement its platform as the default infrastructure before startups defect to open-source alternatives.
Zapier just launched Canvas, a visual flowchart tool with built-in AI that helps users plan end-to-end business workflows and convert them into automated zaps. Users can simply describe a problem to generate a process diagram. The company also made its automation-first database, Tables, generally available.
Amazon just officially launched Amazon Bedrock, opening up its fully managed platform that brings leading foundation models from Anthropic, Meta, and others into a single API. Alongside the rollout, AWS made its Titan Embeddings model available for enterprise search and RAG workflows, and previewed private codebase customization for CodeWhisperer.
Doom creator John Carmack's startup Keen Technologies just partnered with reinforcement learning pioneer Rich Sutton to accelerate artificial general intelligence. Both researchers aim to bypass current mainstream trends by focusing on agency and temporal learning, targeting a genuine AGI prototype by 2030.
DeepMind researchers just introduced OPRO, a technique that turns large language models into natural language optimizers. Instead of writing complex math formulas, users provide a meta-prompt with task descriptions and prior scores, guiding the model to iteratively discover better prompts and boost task accuracy.
Meta just rolled out automated budget scheduling and bid multipliers for its Advantage+ ad suite ahead of the holidays. Brands can now automatically bump up daily budgets during peak promotional spikes without rebuilding campaigns from scratch. It is also testing bid multipliers to automatically scale spend on high-priority audiences like Gen Z.
Google DeepMind just introduced AZdb, an ensemble system that groups uniquely trained AlphaZero agents into a collaborative league. By developing distinct styles and opening specializations, the multi-agent team solved twice as many tricky chess puzzles as a solo AlphaZero and gained 50 Elo points. Why it matters: Adding human-like strategic diversity helps superhuman models generalize far better when pure self-play reaches its limits.
Slack is baking generative AI straight into its chat platform across three main fronts: native conversation summaries and writing assistance, third-party integrations like Anthropic's Claude, and real-time Salesforce Customer 360 data syncs. The team is also experimenting with AI prompting users to create custom workflows on the fly.
Take-Two just issued a DMCA takedown against Sentient Streets, a GTA 5 mod powered by Inworld AI and ElevenLabs that let players talk freely with NPCs. The creator says the project and its YouTube showcase were pulled out of nowhere with zero prior contact. It is a clear reminder that big gaming publishers are still drawing a hard legal line around generative AI.
ElevenLabs just partnered with Inworld to bring its advanced voice synthesis directly into Inworld's AI NPC platform. Game developers can now generate lifelike voices that dynamically adapt to player interactions in real time. It is a big upgrade for immersion, making in-game characters sound far less robotic.
The U.S. Air Force just demonstrated an AI agent flying the stealthy XQ-58A Valkyrie drone through a three-hour combat challenge. Trained on millions of simulation hours, the software successfully handled real airborne tactical tasks. While the Pentagon plans to pair thousands of autonomous drones with crewed fighters, officials stress that humans will remain in the loop.
