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.

Despite a decade of AI growth, Cook says, there's no method yet to measure what exactly an AI model has captured and what it has not. Muse is able to provide grainy gifs of one fairly simple video game based on seven years of footage, but it is not a solution for holding everything about a game or every possible outcome of what players could do.

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

The model could help bring classic titles on modern hardware. Microsoft partnered with Teachable AI Experiences and the Xbox Games Studios' Ninja Theory

Microsoft says Muse was developed around the idea of how innovations in AI capabilities can support creativity.

Over 1 billion images and controller actions from players of Bleeding Edge were used as training data for Muse, a new genAI model from Microsoft that

Microsoft Research collaborated with Xbox studio Ninja Theory to develop Muse. They used gameplay data from Bleeding Edge spanning over 7 years. It learned to

Microsoft Research has introduced Muse, a new AI model that can create controller actions and images for video games. On