Xbox - "Continuing Our Reset" - 'First, we are eliminating 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer.'
Activision will expand its remit to World’s Edge, as well as Rare. Activision will also be developing the next Halo title, led by a new, purpose-built team that is separate from ongoing development and plans for Call of Duty. A small team at Halo Studios will continue supporting the Halo community and games in-market.
Bethesda will expand its remit to include Obsidian, which will continue its current projects, including Grounded, as well as the new Fallout project made in collaboration with Bethesda Game Studios.
King will expand its remit to include Microsoft Casual Games, uniting our two global leaders in casual game design and live operations.
Playground and Turn 10 will come together as one studio focused on the Forza and Fable franchises. These two studios have been creative and franchise partners for over a decade, and today’s changes will formally move their work into one team.
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Did you know Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut) was a @Tesla shareholder in 2015?
Here he is asking @elonmusk about self-driving cars. That same year, Musk helped recruit him from Google to co-found OpenAI.
When Google published the Transformer paper in 2017, Ilya immediately saw what almost nobody else did:
“Drop everything! Start working on the transformer! It’s going to be amazing,” @scmallaby recounts in The Infinity Machine.
The bet was simple: if a model could predict the next word well enough, it wouldn’t just learn grammar. It would start to learn the world.
That bet became GPT. Then ChatGPT.
Nice hair, btw 😂