Xbox announces what sounds like a generative AI-focused game-making department, Xbox Labs, while avoiding mentioning AI
Xbox is reacting - uncharacteristically quickly - to the deluge of vibe-coded game ports, decompiles and recompiles we've been seeing online in recent weeks by establishing Xbox Labs, a new initiative seemingly designed to explore the phenomenon.
Xbox is reacting - uncharacteristically quickly - to the deluge of vibe-coded game ports, decompiles and recompiles we've been seeing online in recent weeks by establishing Xbox Labs, a new initiative seemingly designed to explore the phenomenon.
The short version
- Xbox Labs was announced by CEO Asha Sharma in a message sent to staff and published on Xbox Wire .
- The initiative is led by Xbox chief technical officer (CTO) Scott Van Vliet, who previously led Azure for OpenAI at Microsoft.
- The announcement doesn't give a clear answer, with Sharma seemingly going out of her way to avoid mentioning AI or generative AI in the language.
What happened
"In recent weeks, we've seen games rapidly decompiled and rebuilt to run on hardware they were never originally designed to support," wrote Sharma. And Xbox Labs was formed to "explore" that and more.
Why it matters
Coding became the first major workload for agents because they can write, run, and test software.
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