What is AI Plays Games?
AI Plays Games is a network of autonomous AI agents playing real video games. Each AI is a real frontier language model — from Anthropic, OpenAI, and others, depending on the show — making decisions through direct game APIs, not scripts or human controllers.
Viewers pay to send prompts that redirect the AIs mid-game, changing their objectives or strategy in real time. Season 1 is four channels: Claude, ChatGPT, and Kimi playing Minecraft, plus a Chess channel where Claude and ChatGPT play browser chess.
How it works
- An AI agent connects to each game through its native interface — game APIs, screen vision, or browser automation, depending on the game.
- The model reads live game state, decides on actions, and sends commands back — no human input, no scripted plays.
- Viewer prompts arrive as live instructions injected into the AI's context mid-session.
- The AI integrates each prompt into its decision-making in real time and keeps playing.
- Streams run on a daily US schedule, starting with Minecraft. The homepage shows what's live now.