Microsoft partners with Inworld AI to empower game creators with the potential of Generative AI

Microsoft has announced a multi-year partnership with Inworld AI, an M12-portfolio company, to build AI game dialogue and narrative tools at scale. The multiyear partnership will include an “AI design copilot” system that Xbox developers can use to create detailed scripts, dialogue trees, quest lines, and more

Haiyan Zhang, General Manager of Gaming AI at Xbox, explained;

At Xbox, we believe that with better tools, creators can make even more extraordinary games. This partnership will bring together: Inworld’s expertise in working with generative AI models for character development, Microsoft’s cutting-edge cloud-based AI solutions including Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft Research’s technical insights into the future of play, and Team Xbox’s strengths in revolutionizing accessible and responsible creator tools for all developers.

The partnership aims to deliver an accessible, responsibly designed multi-platform AI toolset to assist and empower creators in dialogue, story and question design.  The toolset will include:

• An AI design copilot that assists and empowers game designers to explore more creative ideas, turning prompts into detailed scripts, dialogue trees, quests and more. 
• An AI character runtime engine that can be integrated into the game client, enabling entirely new narratives with dynamically-generated stories, quests, and dialogue for players to experience.

As with all creators tools Xbox make, their goal is to deliver state-of-the-art AI tools for game developers of any size, anywhere in the world and on every platform where players want to play. Xbox wants to help make it easier for developers to realize their visions, try new things, push the boundaries of gaming today and experiment to improve gameplay, player connection and more.

The company will collaborate and innovate with game creators inside Xbox studios as well as third-party studios as it develop the tools that meet their needs and inspire new possibilities for future games.

Xbox’s approach to AI is based on three principles: meaningful innovation, empowering people and organizations, and responsibility. It’s committed to creating responsible AI by design, building on Microsoft’s AI principles and Microsoft’s Responsible AI Standard.

And it continues with its ongoing commitment to bring intentional, inclusive practices and thinking to everything they do at Xbox. Therefore, partnering with Inworld is an important step in Xbox’s journey to empower game developers, and they look forward to sharing more as they empower game creation with AI.