Revolutionizing Virtual Characters with NVIDIA ACE and Generative AI.

NVIDIA has announced the Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) for Games, a custom AI model foundry service that brings intelligence to non-playable characters (NPCs) through AI-powered natural language interactions. Developers can use ACE for Games to build and deploy customized speech, conversation, and animation AI models in their software and games. ACE for Games delivers optimized AI foundation models for speech, conversation, and character animation, including NVIDIA NeMo, Riva, and Omniverse Audio2Face. The neural networks enabling NVIDIA ACE for Games are optimized for different capabilities, with various size, performance, and quality trade-offs.