I mean, sometimes the whole story really is in the headline. OpenAI, the software company best-known for the various iterations of its ChatGPT text generator, has announced the acquisition of Global Illumination (GI), which describes itself as "a digital product company based in New York most recently working on Biomes."
Biomes is an open source sandbox game with a visual style straight outta Stockholm. It's Minecraft, basically, but Minecraft hosted on Github and theoretically built alongside the community. The synergies between something like this and AI content generation seem obvious. OpenAI's announcement says the GI team is joining to "work on our core products including ChatGPT [and] has been leveraging AI to build creative tools, infrastructure, and digital experiences."
