First Really Good AI Video Game Can Be Expected Next Year: Elon Musk

At the launch of Grok 4, X CEO Elon Musk shared an ambitious prediction: the first high-quality AI-created video game could debut as early as next year. Speaking at the event, Musk highlighted the rapid pace of advancement in artificial intelligence, pointing to breakthroughs that are now making it possible to create complex digital content in record time.

To demonstrate this progress, the xAI team showcased a first-person shooter game that was built using Grok 4 in just four hours. Musk noted that such rapid development would have been unthinkable just a year ago. “It went from not being able to do any of this, and being very primitive, a year ago, to now making a 3D video game with just a few hours of prompting,” he said.

He also predicted that audiences could see the first “watchable” 30-minute AI-generated TV show by the end of this year and possibly a full-length AI film in 2026. These forecasts underscore Musk’s belief that AI is on the verge of transforming not just productivity and communication, but also entertainment and media.

Grok 4, the latest version of Musk’s AI model developed by xAI, represents a significant leap from its predecessor, Grok 3. Built using 200,000 GPUs, the model offers 10 times more computing power and introduces several major upgrades—including real-time search, improved reasoning, enhanced voice capabilities, enterprise-grade security, and multimodal processing.

Calling it the “smartest AI in the world,” Musk claimed Grok 4 is capable of reasoning at superhuman levels and is more intelligent than “almost all graduate students in all disciplines simultaneously.”

Two versions of Grok 4 were unveiled: a standard single-agent version and Grok 4 Heavy, a multi-agent model designed for enterprise use. The system is available exclusively to X’s Premium+ subscribers and is positioned as a direct competitor to leading AI models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google Gemini.