Level up AI @LevelupAIHQ

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GTAHouse @GTAHouse_ES

14 hours ago

El movimiento del pelo en GTA VI es ESPECTACULAR

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Modders just unlocked NVIDIA AI Filters on Skyrim too. Apparently the latest driver includes the Neural filters, and with a mod (RenoDX discord), you can apply it to any game's characters. It almost halves your framerate, but will run on a 5060 at 30 fps or so. Via: PureDark

Modders already got DLSS 5 running on Control using the leaked runtime from NBA 2K27. Runs like absolute trash right now (hits performance by 40%), but the neural rendering on character models is wild. Early glimpse of what the 50-series is about to do.

GTA 6 is a reminder of just how far game development can push visuals, worlds and player immersion. The interesting question for us at LVL UP AI is: what happens when AI starts pushing the next layer of that immersion? AI NPCs. Memory. Personality. Dynamic worlds. We’re only getting started.

Craig @CS11__

20 hours ago

Genuinely the most insane visual fidelity. HOW THE FUCK IS GTA 6 REAL MAN.

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We gave GLM-5.3-Flash a Blender scene and 12 hours later it built this.

AI isn't just for the AAA studios. Combos debuted at #Gamescom2026 with a booth full of games built by people with zero coding experience using their natural language AI agent. One creator even exported their AI-assisted game to run on a physical Game Boy cartridge! 🤯🎮 #AI

What happens when an AI NPC moves beyond the demo and into a real game? Memory. Latency. Cost. Safety. Lore. Player experience. In February 2027, LEVEL//UP AI will bring game-industry professionals together for a practical virtual briefing + live build of an AI NPC from scratch. No hype. Just what actually works, what breaks, and what it takes to ship. Register interest ↓ lvlupai.co

Two things dropped today that quietly say the same thing: an agent-first game engine with zero asset dependencies, and a script-to-video tool where the hard part isn't generation, it's consistency across shots. The interesting AI-in-games work right now is all about constraints, not capability.

@indie_maker_fox the consistency problem is the actual hard part of AI video, not the generation itself. good to see something tackling character/scene continuity head-on instead of treating each shot as independent.

Local, no CUDA stack required is the unlock that actually matters for indie/small studio adoption — not just the demo quality. Curious how it handles longer or more complex animation sequences, not just single-sentence prompts. This is the kind of production-readiness question we want on stage in Feb.

@oldgamesnob This is exactly the kind of "demo to production" gap we're digging into. Text-to-animation is easy to show in a clip, how's it holding up on rigging edge cases and consistency across a full asset library? Would love to see the pipeline breakdown.

Every AI NPC demo looks incredible. Then it hits production and falls apart: latency, cost, consistency, memory. We're bringing the people who've actually shipped this not just demoed it, to talk about what breaks and how they fixed it. AI Characters in Games: From Demo to Production. Feb 2027.

You can read the full article here aivexify.com/the-ultimate-g…

New research from University of Bristol + Meaning Machine: 95% of players enjoyed AI-powered NPC experiences. 97% found them rewarding. The "uncanny/annoying chatbot" era is over. The data's catching up. More on this soon

Games with the Steam AI-disclosure tag get 53% fewer reviews and the reviews skew negative. Sweeney calls that a Scarlet Letter. He's not wrong that it's punishing, he's wrong about why it exists. Players aren't rejecting AI. They're rejecting getting lied to about it.

@TokenGremlin This is the part people are underestimating. Three.js isn't just making prettier web demos anymore it's becoming a legitimate game engine in the browser. Real terrain + physics + vehicles + streaming worlds, all playable from a URL. The web stack is getting ridiculous.

Spline V2 is a big deal. Not because it has a new UI. Because 3D creation is becoming agentic. AI Agent Mode + Spline MCP means AI can start interacting with the actual 3D editor, not just generating assets. The interface may be becoming optional.