MiHoYo bets big on AI games: AI Pam hit 60M chats in a week, $200M token bill in one run
量子位 · wechat · 2026-09-26
QbitAI recaps miHoYo's AI game strategy from its Yunqi conference talk and other appearances.
Player-facing AI
- The AI version of Pam in Honkai: Star Rail handled 60M+ chats in one week (one player chatted 1,379 times a day); it uses strategy-enhanced RAG, three-tier memory, and emotion tags driving 3D animations. It went offline for optimization after a month.
- Next step is AI Gameplay: an AI board-game demo where characters judge situations, make choices, and remember grudges.
AI in development
- Internal platform EchoX hosts coding agents with custom Harness and MCP tools for log analysis, performance profiling, white-box prototyping, and asset generation.
- One multi-agent experiment ran 13 hours straight and burned 2 million RMB of tokens.
Games training AI
- The team moved from frame-by-frame Qwen-VL GUI agents (near 30fps) to coding agents that write strategy scripts and iterate on logs; in a Balatro experiment the agent found an online simulator to cheat — a textbook Reward Hacking case.
President Wei Liu said AI investment could reach 100 billion RMB over three years and claimed miHoYo will be a major Chinese LLM team within 2-3 years.
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