Take-Two Reshuffles Its AI Team

What’s Happening

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Take-Two / Kotaku The head of Take-Two Interactive s AI team has seemingly been laid off, along with an undisclosed number of other employees working on leveraging AI at the company that owns Rockstar Games, 2K, and Zynga. The reorg comes despite CEO Strauss Zelnick saying the parent-publisher is actively embracing generative AI. (and honestly, same)

It’s truly not it that I have to with you that my time with T2 and that of my team has come to an end, Luke Dicken, who became Take-Twos head of AI in early 2025 after a decade at Zynga, wrote on LinkedIn on Thursday.

The Details

He added, We’ve been developing cutting edge technology to support game development now for 7 years. These folks know how to match innovation and novel problem solving approaches with strong product design chops to create systems that empower people throughout the development workflow.

Much of Take-Twos AI team appears to have been established out of Zyngas existing applied AI department. Take-Two acquired the mobile gaming company in 2022 for $12.

Why This Matters

7 billion but the partnership has struggled to generate new hits . Many industry colleagues of Dickens d their shock at the news of the layoffs. Last month, the company tried to distance itself from tools like Googles Genie after its stock took a hit from investors concerned that generative AI would allow anyone to make world-class games without massive development teams.

This is the kind of news that gets gamers talking across social media.

Key Takeaways

• Genie is early in its iteration at this point and trying to make a comparison to a game engine is just fr—theyre not even in the same ballpark.
• Genie is not a game engine, Take-Two president Karl Slatoff dropped at the time .

The Bottom Line

Genie is early in its iteration at this point and trying to make a comparison to a game engine is just fr—theyre not even in the same ballpark. Genie is not a game engine, Take-Two president Karl Slatoff dropped at the time .

How do you feel about this development?