Tim Sweeney: ‘a huge pivot underway here at Epic’ to retool for maximum AI acceleration
Tim Sweeney @timsweeneyepicXImportance: major (4 of 5)
Why it matters
Epic’s CEO confirms, hours after Bloomberg’s report, that the company is reorganizing developers around AI-accelerated development.
Summary
Posted about an hour after Bloomberg reported Epic’s ‘AI first’ production model for its Disney shooter. Sweeney confirms a company-wide pivot and says the aim is more and better output, not fewer people, with the benefits passed to Unreal Engine users.
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We have a huge pivot underway here at Epic, moving developers around to retool for maximum AI acceleration.
The aim isn’t to do the same stuff with fewer people, but to enable everyone here to build MORE and BETTER stuff, and to bring the benefits to all teams using Unreal.