Nvidia has spent the past two years showing off its “ACE” digital characters that can have in-game conversations with you using generative AI. But at CES 2025, the company is taking ACE characters a step further by showing how they can be “standalone game characters” — including, sometime this year, a teammate to help you get a chicken dinner in. PUBG.
Nvidia says ACE Characters can use AI to “perceive, plan, and act like human players.” For each blog post. “Powered by generative AI, ACE will enable living, dynamic game worlds with companions that understand and support the player’s goals, and enemies that dynamically adapt to the player’s tactics.” The characters are powered by “small language models (SLMs)” that are “capable of mapping at human-like frequencies required for realistic decision making” as well as “multimodal vision and sound SLMs that allow the AI characters to hear audio cues.” and awareness of their environment.”
As for how this works PUBGYou will be able to cooperate withPUBG Ally” which Nvidia and PUBG Publisher Krafton calls it “the world’s first cross-playable character (CPC)”. Nvidia says The Ally will be able to “communicate using a game-specific language, make real-time strategy recommendations, find and share loot, drive vehicles, and battle other human players using the game’s extensive arsenal of weapons.”
Basically, it’s like an AI teammate who can speak natural language and who is supposed to be as capable as a human. and video It shows that the ally actually helps the player find certain loot, bring a vehicle, and attempt to flank opposing players. But the video was heavily edited and wasn’t broadcast live, so I doubt Ally will perform as it does here.
AI characters built with ACE are coming to other games as well. Naraka: Bladepoint Laptop Edition It will get the “Local Inference AI Teammate Feature” in March 2025, while Naraka: blade point On PC, you’ll get the feature “later in 2025,” according to Nvidia’s blog post. “AI teammates powered by NVIDIA ACE can join your party, fight alongside you, find specific items you need, exchange equipment, make suggestions on skills you can unlock, and make plays that will help you achieve victory.”
Krafton’s upcoming life simulation game is called inZOI CPC will also be called “Smart Zoe.” Nvidia says ACE characters can also be bosses, and will be used in boss encounters Wemade next Mer5.
