Roblox shows new 3D AI tool gunning for ‘realtime creation integrated with gameplay’ [Video]

The Roblox Developers Conference is underway, and at the keynote address CEO and co-founder David Baszucki came out all guns blazing. We’re gonna have a billion daily users! 10% of all global gaming revenue! We already have your children! OK not the last one, though he might as well have, and you can read all about Roblox’s rude health and even ruder goals here.

There was an element of pie-in-the-sky about some of the keynote. But one of the genuinely impressive touches came when Baszucki gave a flourish in the direction of AI, which Roblox has been gradually integrating into its creator development tools for years. It has a tool that helps automate creating textures, for example, but apparently we ain’t seen nothing yet.

Roblox is developing an AI “3D foundational model” that will be open source and create 3D assets through text, video and 3D prompts. Baszucki describes this as an “incubation project” with around 40 dedicated …