The video game Valorant, a fast-paced team-based shooter, has recently become a testing ground for a promising new direction in artificial intelligence research. The source says that Tencent’s models are also being used by the developers of another Tencent game, GKART, and by some independent developers, too. In addition to generating game content, these models could also enable more advanced virtual and augmented reality and help robots learn to do new things. “There’s a real explosion of 3D vision research nowadays,” says Alexander Raistrick, a graduate student at Princeton University working on novel approaches to generating 3D content. But, as in other creative fields, using AI to create video games is controversial.