Muse is Microsoft's new generative AI for game development that promises to be a gameplay concept tool – it will ideate playable ideas, building game visuals, controller inputs and more. It sounds groundbreaking but Muse feels like a tech experiment rather than the game development revolution Microsoft is pitching.

Microsoft’s Muse is built on the World and Human Action Model (WHAM) and is intended to enhance developers’ creativity.

Microsoft debuts Muse, a world and human action model that uses generative AI to put together gameplay snippets.

In a new blog post on Wednesday, Microsoft’s research department debuted a new generative AI model called Muse that it describes as a “breakthrough” for gameplay ideation.

Microsoft Research has created Muse, a first-of-its-kind generative AI model that can generate a game environment based on visuals or players’ controller actions. It understands a 3D game world and game physics and can react to how players interact with a game.

Microsoft is plunging forward with AI in game development, but gamers don't seem pleased. Microsoft released a new, lengthy research document about a “generative AI model designed for gameplay ideation,” and the reaction to it has been almost universally negative.

Microsoft Research and Ninja Theory teamed up to build Muse, a generative AI model capable of generating gameplay.

Microsoft has announced a new generative AI model called Muse, which the company claims can generate "game visuals, controller actions, or both".