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Dragon Quest Co-Creator Releases AI Game; WindBorne Secures $50M Air Force Contract

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Yuji Horii, co-creator of Dragon Quest, has released a new AI-generated game that he claims took only 30 minutes to create. Separately, the startup WindBorne, which utilizes AI and weather balloons for meteorological predictions, secured a significant contract valued at nearly $50 million from the U.S. Air Force. AI

IMPACT AI is enabling rapid game development and securing significant military contracts for predictive technologies.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains two distinct items: one about a game release and another about a company securing a contract, neither of which rise to the level of frontier release, significant industry move, or research.

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Dragon Quest Co-Creator Releases AI Game; WindBorne Secures $50M Air Force Contract

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    🤖 WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a US m

    🤖 WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a US military contract worth almost $50 million. 📰 Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch 🔗 Link: https://tech…

    LINKS techcrunch.com/…/windborne-wins-a-hefty-u…
  2. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    📰 Dragon Quest co-creator Yuji Horii releases new AI-generated game, and he says it took 30 minutes to make Dragon Quest co-creator Yuji Horii has just released

    📰 Dragon Quest co-creator Yuji Horii releases new AI-generated game, and he says it took 30 minutes to make Dragon Quest co-creator Yuji Horii has just released a new game that he says was made (or, rather, prompted) in about half an hour thanks to gen-AI. 📰 Source: Eurogamer.net…

    LINKS eurogamer.net/dragon-quest-yuji-horii-new…

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