NVIDIA Unveils Avatar Platform For Omniverse, Demonstrates AI Jen-Hsun Huang
NVIDIA introduces a new Avatar engine for its Omniverse platform that combines advanced AI models to generate interactive digital personas. The technology makes its debut through Project Tokkio, a ray-traced digital double of CEO Jen-Hsun Huang that answers complex questions in real time.
NVIDIA introduces a new Avatar engine for its Omniverse platform, allowing users to build interactive digital personas from scratch. The system combines the Megatron 530B language model, the Merlin recommender framework, and the Metropolis computer vision framework to power highly responsive online avatars.
CEO Jen-Hsun Huang demonstrates the technology through Project Tokkio, a ray-traced digital replica of himself that is smaller and more animated. The digital avatar uses accelerated computing to answer complex, unscripted questions in real time, displaying surprisingly human-like nervousness during the demonstration.
While training AI through multiple models is a familiar practice for NVIDIA, Project Tokkio highlights the growing capabilities of the Omniverse ecosystem. As the platform continues to mature, this avatar technology represents just one of the many tools the company develops to enrich its expanding virtual environment.