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In October 2025, EA announced a formal partnership with AI company Stability AI to co-develop generative AI tools for building game assets. The initial focus is on helping EA artists automatically generate realistic surface textures for 3D environments from text descriptions or reference images.
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The partnership embeds Stability AI's 3D research team directly within EA's creative teams. The first deliverable targets Physically Based Rendering (PBR) material creation — a process where artists define how surfaces like wood, metal, or stone interact with light. Generative AI models would produce these materials with accurate color and lighting properties automatically. A second initiative is exploring AI tools to pre-visualize entire 3D environments from text prompts. EA's head of technical art described the tools as "smarter paintbrushes" for artists. Following the announcement, some EA developers publicly expressed resistance to the AI mandate.
Products affected
All future EA titles
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Other practices by Electronic Arts (EA)
OtherEA announced Project Atlas in 2018 as a cloud-based platform for building and running games, with AI built directly into the development environment — including a demonstration of AI generating game terrain from real-world geographic survey data. Its current status within EA's infrastructure is unclear.OtherEA deployed an internal AI mandate across its approximately 15,000 employees starting in 2024, requiring use of tools including an in-house chatbot called ReefGPT for coding, playtester feedback summarization, and other tasks. The mandate overlapped in timing with layoffs of approximately 670 employees in February 2024 and a further 300 to 400 in April 2025; EA has not officially attributed the workforce reductions to AI.OtherEA is developing an unreleased mobile product called Project Air where players can create AI characters, interact with them using open-ended text conversations, and share them with other players. It is EA's most experimental generative AI product to date.
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