NVIDIA's AI Evolution in Gaming: Introducing ACE Platform and Inworld AI Collaboration

At the GTC 2024 event, NVIDIA unveiled its latest advancements in artificial intelligence for the gaming sector, notably through a demonstration of the new AI NPC demo named Covert Protocol, powered by Inworld AI, distinguishing itself from the Convai technology showcased at CES 2024.

The transition to Inworld AI, previously integrated into games like Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord and Skyrim through mods, signifies a strategic collaboration within NVIDIA’s Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE), designed for crafting digital characters. This partnership, following an alliance between Microsoft and Inworld AI, equips developers to forge deeper, more nuanced NPC interactions in gaming.

NVIDIA's ACE platform pledges a comprehensive digital human pipeline, starting from Riva for speech recognition and synthesis, extending to Audio2Face for generating facial animations from audio. With Inworld AI, developers gain control over NPC attributes, from personality to long-term memory, enhancing gameplay depth.

This initiative is part of NVIDIA’s broader strategy to proliferate ACE's application, targeting both game developers and businesses for customer service enhancements, underscoring its ambition to pioneer sophisticated AI solutions across various market sectors.