After 3200 layoffs, Asha Sharma launches Xbox Labs to make games with AI

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    "excerpt": "The tech industry is evolving with AI, and the case is no different for gaming. Now Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wants Microsoft’s gaming division to explore “emerging technologies,\" such as AI in its games with Xbox Labs. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma described Xbox Labs as a “small group of game makers, engineers and scientists whose job is to turn emerging ideas into things our players and developers can experience” in an internal memo, now shared on X. This may include AI-assisted modifications, compatibility tools and ways to make games available on hardware for which they were not originally designed. Sharma’s announcement comes at a time when Xbox is going through major restructuring with 3,200 job cuts globally , or about 20 per cent of its entire staff. The gaming division has also merged or shut down some of its gaming studios as part of the restructuring. In the memo, Asha Sharma did not mention the term AI but did refer to agents helping game development, similar to how they are used for coding. “Coding became the first major workload for agents because they can write, run, and test software. Games share many of those same properties,” she said. As per the Xbox CEO, people spend more than 72 billion hours annually playing Xbox games, about five times the estimated time spent writing code worldwide. The Xbox chief recognised recent developments in the gaming world where games were...",
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