GamesIndustry

Altera raises $9m in seed round to fund AI software

AI startup Altera has raised $9 million in a seed round, co-led by Patron and First Spark Ventures. Founded in December 2023, this brings its total funding to $11.1 million following a previous ...
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AI created a Minecraft AI village with up to 1,000 inhabitants — Project Sid sees AI bots implement a taxation system and spread Pastafarianism religion

Speaking to the MIT Technology Review earlier this week, AI startup Altera disclosed that it had successfully run several experiments of varying scales. It deployed AI-powered "players" into a ...
TechCrunch

Bye-bye bots: Altera’s game-playing AI agents get backing from Eric Schmidt

Autonomous, AI-based players are coming to a gaming experience near you, and a new startup, Altera, is joining the fray to build this new guard of AI agents. The company announced Wednesday that it ...
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AI Tools Are Transforming How Minecraft Mods and Datapacks Are Created

AI-powered platforms and workflows are streamlining Minecraft modding, from unofficial Copilot-assisted research to fully ...
MIT Technology Review

These AI Minecraft characters did weirdly human stuff all on their own

Hundreds of LLM-powered AI agents spontaneously made friends, invented jobs, and spread religion. Left to their own devices, an army of AI characters didn’t just survive—they thrived. They developed ...