To my colleagues in the games industry: I’m seeing the early signs of what I believe will be another large revenue driver for the industry, with some early deals taking place now. If you have a great, realistic game, many AI labs will pay for privately hosted managed versions. There’s a great opportunity to roll this up as a service for game developers (we will be a customer!) but labs will be reluctant to work with rollups because of fear of distillation. The right way to price this is some up front fee for the engineering effort with a managed service fee and some concurrent user number tied to the services provided. The more realistic the game and the wider state/action space and customizable the more customers. And the more accessible the interface (do you have to build agents to load and manage the game or do they come out of the box?) the higher the customer retention will be. I think this will lead to a massive rejuvenation for the industry, and in the long term we will be makers of games for both agents and humans. And the technological advances will carry over. For example, I imagine everyone will get much better at anti cheat and catching non human behavior by having the best bots at all time within reach and collaborating with top developers. Very excited for this and how it’ll lead to making better game for players also!