Artificial Agency has developed an AI behavior engine that replaces traditional decision trees and scripts by giving each NPC motivations, rules and goals that generate dynamic responses and actions. The engine can plug into existing games or serve as the basis for new titles, enabling NPCs to perform complex tasks without explicit scripting. The team includes former Google DeepMind researchers and co-founders such as CEO Brian Tanner and Alex Kearney, and the startup says it is working with several notable AAA studios. The company uses open-source models (including Meta’s Llama 3) for inference and demonstrated a Minecraft demo that performed multi-step tasks and context-aware dialogue. Competitors cited in the article include Inworld and Nvidia. Artificial Agency expects its technology to be widely available in 2025 and highlighted rapidly falling inference costs (a demo that cost ~$1 today could cost ~$0.01 within a year). The company has raised $16M to date to support product development and go-to-market efforts.

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$12M

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Jul 2024