One Prompt → A 3D World You Can Play | Bittensor SN17
About SN17 404—GEN
Can AI Generate Entire Playable Worlds? | 404GEN — Novelty Search #086 Description This week on Novelty Search, we’re joined by Ben from 404GEN, Bittensor Subnet 17, to explore the rapidly evolving frontier of generative 3D. 404GEN has progressed from Gaussian splats to production-ready meshes with Titan, and is now experimenting with structured Three.js generation, agent-built games and world models. We look at how miners contributed to Titan, how the subnet evaluates subjective 3D outputs, and why moving from generating individual assets to structured environments creates new possibilities for games, simulations and agents. Ben also demonstrates how 404GEN’s technology is already being used to generate game-ready assets, discusses real-time user-generated content, and shares early experiments training agents inside generated worlds. 00:00 Root Reborn and validator baskets 04:44 404GEN joins Novelty Search 05:51 From Gaussian splats to generative 3D 07:30 Titan: 404GEN's image-to-3D model 11:59 Making AI-generated assets game-ready 15:56 Three.js and the subnet's next competition 18:09 Building games with AI agents 25:09 Can AI generate an entire game? 31:40 From 3D assets to world models 34:27 Training agents inside generated worlds 38:28 Building complete RPG worlds 40:50 How miners compete on 404GEN 45:40 How validators score subjective 3D 49:45 The coming shift in AI-native gaming 55:20 Using Titan and Atlas 61:00 Titan vs closed-source 3D models 63:15 Closing thoughts
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SN17 404—GEN at a glance
SN17, 404—GEN (α token ρ), is one of the independent markets on the Bittensor network, each with its own α token and its own price. Its α currently trades at 0.007161 τ (≈ $1.71), against 23,210 τ of pool liquidity. On-chain, the best-delegated validator on it yields about 37.62% APR (simple) and 45.67% APY (compounded), emissions add 0.000960 τ to the pool each block, epochs run every 360 blocks. It was registered at block #2,840,556.
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