NVIDIA's ACE brings lifelike AI game characters to interact with players in real-time.

NVIDIA has announced the Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) for Games, a custom AI model foundry service that uses generative AI to bring intelligence to non-playable characters (NPCs) through AI-powered natural language interactions. ACE for Games delivers optimized AI foundation models for speech, conversation, and character animation, and developers can integrate the entire solution or use only the components they need. The neural networks enabling NVIDIA ACE for Games are optimized for different capabilities, with various size, performance, and quality trade-offs, and can be deployed locally or in the cloud.