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Recently, the UP master of Station B @星coin谷地 found a game called "Project Star" to recruit offline test players through the overseas event recruitment platform Meet Up.

Based on the email address of the questionnaire, the identity of the host of the event, the name of the game and other information, the UP owner believes that the game is related to Cai Haoyu's AI company Anuttacon.

Grape did find the recruitment campaign on the Meet Up platform as well. Details of the event are as follows:

The LinkedIn link on the page also points to Anuttacon, which Cai Haoyu previously exposed.

The address of the event also happens to be the location on Tsai's LinkedIn page: Santa Clara (aka Silicon Valley).

However, it is not certain whether the host is an employee of Anuttacon, and judging by the various activities she participated in on her personal page, it is possible that she came from a third-party company that does user research for game companies.

The email address in the questionnaire is not the same as the official website, including the code name "Project Star", which is not necessarily related to the trademark "WHISPERS FROM THE STAR" registered by Anuttacon, after all, it is just a codename.

In short, it is very likely that "Project Star" is related to Cai Haoyu's AI company Anuttacon, but due to some suspicions, it is still impossible to be 100% sure: none of Anuttacon's official platforms have released offline test recruitment for the game, and it stands to reason that even if it needs to be kept secret, there is no need to hide it so much.

And this event did not use the official name of Anuttacon to recruit, but there was a suspected official employee as the event host. And the scope of the event announcement is also strange, not the gaming community or the AI tech forum, but a "East Coast nerd group" that has little to do with games and AI.

If the news is finally confirmed to be true, then this may be the debut of Cai Haoyu's AGI entrepreneurial project.

According to the event page, Project Star is an interactive space survival story, and the player's choices may save the protagonist's life...... or end his life (where your choices could save the protagonist's life... or end it）。

It's easy to think of an interactive cinematic game like Detroit: Human.

But if AI were added to the game, the effect might be very different - maybe a more complex network of relationships, more dialogue options, more varied storylines, but in short, it's hard for me to imagine how much AI can play a role in this.

After all, Anuttacon's vision is to create new, innovative, intelligent, and engaging virtual world experiences and AGI products that "harness the full potential of AI technology to create unprecedented experiences for gamers and push the boundaries of interactive entertainment with AI." ”

However, at present, it will definitely not be an AI auxiliary tool - many people have speculated that the biggest impact of AI on games is to "reduce costs and increase efficiency" to improve the efficiency of game development. But Cai Haoyu seems to be planning to start with native AI games.

Combined with the appearance of oriental women on the page of this event, and the entrepreneurial goal proposed by Cai Haoyu when he was just starting out: the virtual idol plan. The game may also be a product that focuses on the interaction of virtual AI characters, which can respond in real time, make more complex and rich interactions, and so on.

According to information from the media investment community, an investor who is active in the Silicon Valley Bay Area happened to talk about the project team and said that Anuttacon's growth path is to do AI + games in the early stage and build a content platform later.

Regarding the "content platform", Cai Haoyu also mentioned in the employee handbook of miHoYo: "The concretization of utopia" is also the ability to realize the so-called "virtual world inhabited by one billion people around the world".

"If I were to define the technical standard of this so-called "utopian concretization", I would imagine that any creator, who may be a person with the ability to imagine pictures, may be a storyteller, may be an architect, etc., as long as they can roughly think about what they want to create in their own minds, the "utopian concretization" system will interact with it step by step, help them gradually sort out the imaginary concepts in their minds, and in a short period of time, they can create an object comparable to the level of detail in reality."

Based on this information, there is also speculation that Anuttacon will eventually make an AI-based "Roblox" for all ages with more creative capabilities.

But no matter how everyone guesses, Cai Haoyu is completely tied to AI technology.

His last known move was the "violent statement" on social media: AIGC has revolutionized game development. There are only two kinds of people in the future that make sense to make games. One is the top 0.0001% of geniuses, who create something unprecedented by forming an elite team; The other 99% of amateurs can create games on a whim to satisfy their own ideas. And casual and professional game developers, you may want to consider changing careers.

Of course, there is a lot of room for development of AI entrepreneurship, and some entrepreneurs from large factories have said that AI may be the new entrance to the next generation of the Internet, and AI digital life is likely to become an important part of the virtual world.

After Cai Haoyu became famous, it is obviously no longer enough to simply make another game product to satisfy him, and his ambition is much greater than everyone thinks. As for whether "Project Star" is the "unprecedented" thing, he can only wait for himself to answer.

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