NVIDIA announced today that leading AI application developers
across a wide range of industries are using NVIDIA digital human
technologies to create lifelike avatars for commercial applications
and dynamic game characters. The results are on display at GTC, the
global AI conference held this week in San Jose, Calif., and can be
seen in technology demonstrations from Hippocratic AI, Inworld AI,
UneeQ and more.
NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) for speech and animation,
NVIDIA NeMo™ for language, and NVIDIA RTX™ for ray-traced rendering
are the building blocks that enable developers to create digital
humans capable of AI-powered natural language interactions, making
conversations more realistic and engaging.
“NVIDIA offers developers a world-class set of AI-powered
technologies for digital human creation,” said John Spitzer, vice
president of developer and performance technologies at NVIDIA.
“These technologies may power the complex animations and
conversational speech required to make digital interactions feel
real.”
World-Class Digital Human TechnologiesThe
digital human technologies suite includes language, speech,
animation and graphics powered by AI:
- NVIDIA ACE —
technologies that help developers bring digital humans to life with
facial animation powered by NVIDIA Audio2Face™ and speech powered
by NVIDIA Riva automatic speech recognition (ASR) and
text-to-speech (TTS). ACE microservices are flexible in allowing
models to run across cloud and PC depending on the local GPU
capabilities to help ensure the user receives the best
experience.
- NVIDIA NeMo — an end-to-end platform that
enables developers to deliver enterprise-ready generative AI models
with precise data curation, cutting-edge customization,
retrieval-augmented generation and accelerated performance.
- NVIDIA RTX — a
collection of rendering technologies, such as RTX Global
Illumination (RTXGI) and DLSS 3.5, that enable real-time path
tracing in games and applications.
Building Blocks for Digital Humans and Virtual
AssistantsTo showcase the new capabilities of its digital
human technologies, NVIDIA worked across industries with leading
developers, such as Hippocratic AI, Inworld AI and UneeQ, on a
series of new demonstrations.
Hippocratic AI has created a safety-focused, LLM-powered,
task-specific Healthcare Agent. The agent calls patients on the
phone, follows up on care coordination tasks, delivers preoperative
instructions, performs post-discharge management and much more. For
GTC, NVIDIA collaborated with Hippocratic AI to extend its solution
to use NVIDIA ACE microservices, NVIDIA Audio2Face along with
NVIDIA Animation graph and NVIDIA Omniverse™ Streamer Client to
show the potential of a generative AI healthcare agent avatar.
“Our digital assistants provide helpful, timely and accurate
information to patients worldwide,” said Munjal Shah, cofounder and
CEO of Hippocratic AI. “NVIDIA ACE technologies bring them to life
with cutting-edge visuals and realistic animations that help better
connect to patients.”
UneeQ is an autonomous digital human platform specialized in
creating AI-powered avatars for customer service and interactive
applications. Its digital humans represent brands online,
communicating with customers in real time to give them confidence
in their purchases. UneeQ integrated the NVIDIA Audio2Face
microservice into its platform and combined it with Synanim ML to
create highly realistic avatars for a better customer experience
and engagement.
“UneeQ combines NVIDIA animation AI with our own Synanim ML
synthetic animation technology to deliver real-time digital human
interactions that are emotionally responsive and deliver dynamic
experiences powered by conversational AI,” said Danny Tomsett,
founder and CEO of UneeQ.
Bringing Dynamic Non-Playable Characters to
GamesNVIDIA ACE is a suite of technologies designed to
bring game characters to life. Covert Protocol is a new
technology demonstration, created by Inworld AI in partnership with
NVIDIA, that pushes the boundary of what character interactions in
games can be. Inworld’s AI engine has integrated NVIDIA Riva for
accurate speech-to-text and NVIDIA Audio2Face to deliver lifelike
facial performances.
Inworld’s AI engine takes a multimodal approach to the
performance of non-playable characters (NPCs), bringing together
cognition, perception and behavior systems for an immersive
narrative with stunning RTX-rendered characters set in a
beautifully crafted environment.
“The combination of NVIDIA ACE microservices and the Inworld
Engine enables developers to create digital characters that can
drive dynamic narratives, opening new possibilities for how gamers
can decipher, deduce and play,” said Kylan Gibbs, CEO of Inworld
AI.
Game publishers worldwide are evaluating how NVIDIA ACE can
improve the gaming experience.
Developers Across Healthcare, Gaming, Financial
Services, Media & Entertainment and Retail Embrace
ACETop game and digital human developers are pioneering
ways ACE and generative AI technologies can be used to transform
interactions between players and NPCs in games and
applications.
Developers and platforms embracing ACE include Convai, Cyber
Agent, Data Monsters, Deloitte, Hippocratic AI, IGOODI, Inworld AI,
Media.Monks, miHoYo, NetEase Games, Perfect World, Openstream,
OurPalm, Quantiphi, Rakuten Securities, Slalom, SoftServe, Tencent,
Top Health Tech, Ubisoft, UneeQ and Unions Avatars.
More information on NVIDIA ACE is available at
https://developer.nvidia.com/ace. Platform developers can
incorporate the full suite of digital human technologies or
individual microservices into their product offerings.
Developers can start their journey on NVIDIA ACE by applying for
the early access program to get in-development AI models. To
explore available models, developers can evaluate and access NVIDIA
NIM, a set of easy-to-use microservices designed to accelerate the
deployment of generative AI, for Riva and Audio2Face on
ai.nvidia.com today.
About NVIDIASince its founding in 1993, NVIDIA
(NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The
company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC
gaming market, redefined computer graphics, ignited the era of
modern AI and is fueling industrial digitalization across markets.
NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing infrastructure company with
data-center-scale offerings that are reshaping industry. More
information at https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
For further information, contact:Benjamin
BerraondoNVIDIA Corporation+44 7979 384482bberraondo@nvidia.com
Certain statements in this press release including, but not
limited to, statements as to: the benefits, impact, performance,
features, and availability of NVIDIA’s products and technologies,
including NVIDIA digital human technologies, NVIDIA Avatar Cloud
Engine, NVIDIA NeMo, NVIDIA RTX such as RTX Global Illumination and
DLSS 3.5, NVIDIA Audio2Face, NVIDIA Riva automatic speech
recognition and text-to-speech, NVIDIA ACE microservices, NVIDIA
Animation graph, and NVIDIA Omniverse Streamer Client; the benefits
and impact of NVIDIA’s collaborations with third parties, and the
features and availability of their services and offerings; third
parties’ use or adoption of NVIDIA products, technologies and
platforms, and the benefits and impacts thereof; AI-powered
technologies for digital human creation offered by NVIDIA powering
the complex animations and conversational speech required to make
digital interactions feel real; and top game and digital human
developers pioneering ways ACE and generative AI technologies can
be used to transform interactions between players and NPCs in games
and applications are forward-looking statements that are subject to
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