By using a local AI powered by a small language model, the companies claim to be able to create NPCs that can interact with users like chatbots and imitate the decision-making of

CES 2025 is officially underway, and one of the big gaming announcements so far was a partnership between Nvidia and Krafton for AI-powered teammates who can help you in battle in PUBG.

But at CES 2025, the company is taking the ACE characters a step further by showing how they can be “autonomous game characters” — including, sometime this year, a teammate to help you get a chicken dinner in PUBG.

Developer Krafton and NVIDIA are introducing the first "co-playable character" partner powered by AI technology for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

In partnership with PUBG publisher Krafton, NVIDIA is launching the "PUBG Ally," which it calls the "world's first Co-Playable Character (CPC)." This AI character will communicate

Credit: PUBG Corporation Nvidia has announced a partnership with a handful of developers to create AI teammates, which is informed by Nvidia's own generative and responsive AI. This is to say that the AI teammates here are a little more intelligent than those you may have come across before.

PUBG: Battlegrounds to introduce CPCs, AI-powered companions for players to interact and strategize with. Krafton plans to implement CPCs to enhance gameplay in PUBG: Battlegrounds and inZOI simulation title.