Krafton worked with Nvidia on co-playable characters for PUBG.
Krafton worked with Nvidia on co-playable characters for PUBG.
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Krafton and Nvidia team up to create smarter AI characters for PUBG and inZOI

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nvidia and Krafton unveiled a groundbreaking on-device AI that will enable smarter AI characters for PUBG and inZoi.

The companies have built a Small Language Model (SLM) built specifically for video games. This technology will first be introduced in the PUBG franchise, which has sold more than 80 million copies, and the upcoming life simulator, inZOI.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.