Hacker News with Generative AI: Roblox

One of the Most Popular Games on the Planet (kotaku.com)
It’s likely that you’ve never played or even heard of Grow a Garden, a new user-created experience in Roblox. But millions of people have. In fact, the very simple farming sim at one point had over 5 million active players, beating out games like Counter-Strike 2 and Marvel Rivals on Steam. It’s likely Grow a Garden is one of the most played games on the planet right now. And it was developed by a teenager in a few days.
Roblox Releases Cube: Generative AI System for 3D (github.com/Roblox)
Foundation models trained on vast amounts of data have demonstrated remarkable reasoning and generation capabilities in the domains of text, images, audio and video. Our goal is to build such a foundation model for 3D intelligence, a model that can support developers in producing all aspects of a Roblox experience, from generating 3D objects and scenes to rigging characters for animation to producing programmatic scripts describing object behaviors.
Roblox releases code for Cube 3D Mesh Gen model (github.com/Roblox)
Foundation models trained on vast amounts of data have demonstrated remarkable reasoning and generation capabilities in the domains of text, images, audio and video. Our goal is to build such a foundation model for 3D intelligence, a model that can support developers in producing all aspects of a Roblox experience, from generating 3D objects and scenes to rigging characters for animation to producing programmatic scripts describing object behaviors.
Roblox Open-Sourcing Cube 3D Mesh Gen Model (roblox.com)
We are releasing our Cube 3D foundational model for generative AI.
Roblox announces AI model for 3D game worlds (arstechnica.com)
On Friday, Roblox announced plans to introduce an open source generative AI tool that will allow game creators to build 3D environments and objects using text prompts, reports MIT Tech Review.
Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable (matthewball.co)
Roblox gets banned indefinitely in Turkey over "child exploitation" (dexerto.com)
Roblox's Predator Problem [video] (youtube.com)
Roblox's Pedophile Problem (bloomberg.com)
Roblox Open Sources Real-Time Voice Safety Model (roblox.com)
Roblox has ported the entire front end JavaScript stack to Lua (twitter.com)
Lessons Learned from My First Roblox Game (mandeepbhutani.com)
Roblox players to start seeing video ads in its virtual realms (reuters.com)