{"id":605850,"date":"2026-05-27T02:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605850\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T02:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:27:14","slug":"hoyoverse-to-invest-up-to-14-6bn-in-ai-for-in-house-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605850\/","title":{"rendered":"HoYoverse to invest up to $14.6bn in AI for in-house tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honkai: Star Rail publisher HoYoverse will reportedly invest up to $14.6 billion in AI over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamelook.com.cn\/2026\/05\/593492\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> GameLook<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonphonebiz.com\/hoyoverse-plans-14-6-billion-ai-investment-over-three-years-signals-push-toward-full-stack-ai-development\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> GamingonPhoneBiz<\/a>), the announcement was made during a private technology and recruitment session on May 15 for master&#8217;s and doctoral students.<\/p>\n<p>During the session, HoYoverse co-founder Liu Wei outlined the company&#8217;s long-term AI strategy and its move toward in-house AI development.<\/p>\n<p>HoYoverse detailed plans to develop an internal AI ecosystem, including GPU clusters, training systems, and application architecture, rather than relying only on external AI models.<\/p>\n<p>The company stated AI will be central to future game development, enhancing NPC systems, automation, content generation, and live-service environments. HoYoverse plans to use these tools in its upcoming life simulation title, Petit Planet, featuring AI-powered NPCs.<\/p>\n<p>HoYoverse joins Krafton in adopting an AI-centric development approach. Last year, the South Korean publisher announced its intention to become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/krafton-to-undergo-complete-reorganization-as-it-positions-itself-as-an-ai-first-company\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> an &#8220;AI-first company.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The publisher said it would &#8220;prioritise AI as a central and primary means of problem-solving&#8221; and &#8220;foster change in individuals and organisations, increase company-wide productivity, and accelerate mid- to long-term corporate value growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This included a complete reorganisation, a $69.7 million investment in a new GPU cluster, and an additional $20.8 million to retain its workforce through AI tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Honkai: Star Rail publisher HoYoverse will reportedly invest up to $14.6 billion in AI over the next three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-605850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}