Inworld AI Secures $50 Million to Build No-Code Virtual Characters
Inworld AI closes a $50 million Series A round to expand its platform that enables the creation of AI-driven virtual characters. The no-code studio allows anyone to design realistic personalities for games and metaverse environments.
Inworld AI raises $50 million in a Series A funding round led by Section 32 and Intel Capital to expand its AI-powered virtual character development platform. This new investment brings the company's total funding to $70 million following a previous $20 million seed round. A wide array of notable investors participates in this round, including Microsoft's M12 fund, Kleiner Perkins, and Founders Fund.
The company provides a no-code studio that allows developers and writers to create virtual characters with distinct personalities, memories, and behaviors. Users simply describe their desired character in natural language, and the platform generates an interactive personality that learns and evolves from past interactions. Inworld AI integrates with popular game engines like Unity and Unreal to deploy these characters directly into gaming and metaverse environments.
This technology aims to solve the problem of static, scripted dialogue in modern virtual worlds by enabling dynamic and realistic human interactions. To ensure safety, the platform utilizes OpenAI's Moderation Endpoint to prevent characters from generating offensive or inappropriate content. By making the character creation process accessible to non-coders, Inworld AI hopes to revolutionize how virtual beings are built and experienced across digital applications.