[Tencent Games Restructures AI Team: Hiring Inspired by Seedance, Aiming to Create Games Directly with Video Models] Beating AI Newsflash: Tencent IEG is reportedly restructuring its AI gaming team, with a focus on video world models and AI-native games. The new organization will integrate ARC Lab and the existing game AI team while continuing large-scale recruitment. The two teams previously had different roles: ARC Lab focused on cutting-edge research, primarily working on world models, game agents, and generative AI; the game AI team focused on engineering implementation, turning large models, agents, and other capabilities into game development tools and infrastructure. This adjustment aims to combine "researching models" with "applying models to games." The new department will cover areas such as foundational audio and video models, data, video world models, agents, and products. Its organizational approach draws inspiration from ByteDance's Seedance and Kuaishou's Keling, including talent acquisition, data, and training engineering. Reports suggest the team currently has around 100 members and may expand to 400–500 in the future. One of its ultimate goals is to explore the direct generation of interactive game worlds using video models. [Original Article Link]