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editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) · 2026-04-09 · via Latest from Tom's Hardware
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Valve is apparently developing its own AI bot for internal use that will help the company tackle customer support issues and anti-cheat oversight in at least one game. Valve expert Gabe Follower on X discovered the name "SteamGPT" in newly uncovered Steam files pointing to these use cases.

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It seems that Valve is working on a "SteamGPT" feature that will apparently deal with Steam support issues and is somehow connected to Trust Score and CS2 anti-cheat? pic.twitter.com/a3MckicQf2April 7, 2026

There was also code suggesting SteamGPT might control or have data access to Counter-Strike 2's anti-cheat system and database. The code found in the files suggests SteamGPT can see player action and player evaluation — the latter of which is a feature in anti-cheat systems that tracks player performance (instead of only looking for cheating software on their machine).

For now, we can't tell how far into development SteamGPT is, nor do we know if the company is planning to launch this tool. SteamGPT could be a concept that Valve is testing but doesn't intend to release. Regardless, this is the first AI tool we've seen from Valve, as the company has been notably absent from AI-focused marketing — though it does allow the use of AI-generated content in games. Last year, it was discovered that over 110,000 games in Steam's library use generative AI content, representing 7% of the entire store.

If Valve does release SteamGPT, it will help maintain Valve's sky-high efficiency in terms of revenue generated per employee. Valve is ranked the most efficient company in the world and rakes in almost $50 million per each of its 350 employees.

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Aaron Klotz is a contributing writer for Tom’s Hardware, covering news related to computer hardware such as CPUs, and graphics cards.