On the eve of Computex, Nvidia announced numerous AI advances for the cloud, developers, and the edge. Key among them is a new class of laptops coming in late 2024 that will offer hardware-accelerated AI capabilities and a free update to Copilot+ PC experiences “when available.”
“Nvidia launched the era of AI PCs in 2018 with the release of RTX Tensor Core GPUs and Nvidia DLSS,” Nvidia vice president Jason Paul said. “Now, with Project G-Assist and Nvidia ACE, we’re unlocking the next generation of AI-powered experiences for over 100 million RTX AI PC users.”
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There’s a lot going on here, but this work should answer some of the complaints about Copilot+ PCs because it will bring those capabilities to even more PCs, including new–and, most crucially, existing–PCs with Nvidia GeForce GPUs.
Project G-Assist is an AI assistant for gamers and creators that will in-game and in-app assistance in response to voice or text inputs. Using contextual awareness from the screen and AI vision models, it will generate tailored responses.
Nvidia ACE, meanwhile, is a cloud-based microservices infrastructure that the firm says is the first step towards a future of AI avatars for specific industries. “ACE technologies simplify creating, animating and operating lifelike digital humans across customer service, telehealth, gaming, and entertainment,” the company says. It includes automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech conversion and translation, language understanding, contextual response generation, facial animation with real-time, path-traced realistic skin and hair, and other capabilities.
Nvidia ACE is available now in the cloud, but it’s also in early access for GeForce RTX AI PCs, including the 100 million existing RTX AI PCs noted above.
As for Copilot+ PCs, the details are light. But Nvidia is partnering with Microsoft to bring the new AI-based APIs in the Windows Copilot Runtime to PCs with GeForce RTX GPUs, expanding their use beyond Copilot+ PCs with 40 TOPS-capable NPUs. These capabilities are coming later this year and will be followed at some unspecified time with compatibility with Copilot+ PC capabilities like Recall.
Nvidia is also partnering with AMD on bringing a new generation of GeForce RTX AI PCs to market. And software makers like Adobe, Blackmagic Design, and Topaz are using Nvidia’s APIs to AI-accelerate their popular creative apps.
“Newly announced RTX AI PC laptops from ASUS and MSI feature up to GeForce RTX 4070 GPUs and power-efficient systems-on-a-chip with Windows 11 AI PC capabilities,” Nvidia says. “These Windows 11 AI PCs will receive a free update to Copilot+ PC experiences when available.”