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Descartesan Israeli AI company that came out of obscurity today with $21 million in funding from Sequoia and Oren Zeev, has released what it claims is the first playable AI model in an “open world.”
The model, called Oasis, and available for download, runs a demo on Decart’s website: a Minecraft-like game that’s built quickly, from end to end. Trained on videos of Minecraft games, Oasis understands keyboard and mouse movements and generates frames in real-time, simulating physics, rules and graphics.
Oasis is part of an emerging class of generative AI models called “universal models.” a lot to these The models can emulate games – but few with frame rates as high as the Oasis.
I tried the demo out of curiosity, and I’d say there’s a ways to go before it becomes a truly enjoyable experience. The resolution is very low, and Oasis tends to “forget” the level layout quickly – I would rotate my character only to see a rearranged landscape.
I also wonder about the copyright implications here. Decart does say he has Microsoft’s blessing to practice on Minecraft footage. (Microsoft owns Minecraft.) Is Oasis essentially creating an unauthorized copy of Minecraft? This is what the courts decide.
However, Decart believes that future versions of Oasis, which are optimized to run on Etched’s upcoming AI accelerator chips (the demo is currently running on Nvidia H100 GPUs), could generate up to 4K gameplay.
“(These models) may enhance modern entertainment platforms by quickly generating content according to user preferences,” Descartes wrote in a blog post. “Or perhaps a gaming experience that provides new possibilities for user interaction such as text and voice prompts that guide gameplay.”
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