Nvidia announces new platform for creating AI Avatars

Chip-maker Nvidia on Wednesday announced ‘Omniverse Avatar’, a technology platform for generating interactive Artificial Intelligence (AI) Avatars.

Omniverse Avatar connects the company’s technologies in speech AI, computer vision, natural language understanding, recommendation engines and simulation technologies.

“The dawn of intelligent virtual assistants has arrived. Omniverse Avatar combines NVIDIA’s foundational graphics, simulation and AI technologies to make some of the most complex real-time applications ever created. The use cases of collaborative robots and virtual assistants are incredible and far reaching,” Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia said in a statement.