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| 25.07.2026 | AI's new North Star: Intelligence per dollar | The AI industry has spent the past few years obsessing over one question: Who has the smartest model?
That still matters. But a new north star is emerging: how much useful intelligence can be delivered for each dollar spent.
A lot of models... |
| 16.06.2026 | Tencent Cloud and Inworld AI Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver a One-Stop, Lifelike, Realtime Voice AI Solution | HONG KONG, June 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of global leading technology company Tencent, today announced a strategic partnership with Inworld AI, a leading voice AI research lab and developer platform for rea... |
| 18.05.2026 | Speechify SIMBA 3.0 Breaks Into the Global Top 10 on the Artificial Analysis TTS Leaderboard, Outranking Google, OpenAI, and ElevenLabs | Speechify SIMBA 3.0 Breaks Into the Global Top 10 on the Artificial Analysis TTS Leaderboard, Outranking Google, Microsoft, Amazon, OpenAI, and ElevenLabs at a Fraction of the Cost
SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Speechify... |
| 06.05.2026 | Inworld Launches New Frontier Voice Model That Gives AI Agents Contextual Empathy | launches Realtime TTS-2, a new generation of voice model built to evolve how AI agents handle realtime conversation. The model is able to understand the full context of conversations and the user’s emotional state, tone and pacing to determ... |
| 24.01.2026 | Everything in voice AI just changed: how enterprise AI builders can benefit | Despite lots of hype, "voice AI" has so far largely been a euphemism for a request-response loop. You speak, a cloud server transcribes your words, a language model thinks, and a robotic voice reads the text back. Functional, but ... |
| 20.11.2025 | Consumer AI Accelerator by TRMNL4 and Inworld Opens Applications for 2026 Cohort | TRMNL4 and Inworld launch a six-week, equity-free Consumer AI Accelerator for global startups The program focuses on growth, fundraising, and scalable AI infrastructure with top operator mentorship Startups receive Inworld credits, major pa... |
| 26.09.2025 | Modular Secures $250M to Reshape AI Hardware Landscape | Modular, an AI software innovator, just raised $250 million. This propels its valuation to $1.6 billion. The funding targets Nvidia's powerful grip on AI computing. Modular's platform allows AI applications to run across diverse chips. No c... |
| 24.09.2025 | Modular raises $250M to simplify AI deployment across hardware
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The round was led by Thomas Tull’s US Innovative Technology fund, with DFJ Growth joining.... |
| 12.09.2025 | How this Entrepreneur Built the Architecture for Rapid AI Experiments Founder Pritesh Kadiwala breaks down how these engineering decisions became the foundation for Wishroll's speed, scale, and abilit... | Wishroll designs products for Generation Z at the intersection of fandom culture and artificial intelligence. In recent years, the team has launched several apps — most notably Kiwi and Status — which together have drawn more than 4 million... |
| 13.08.2025 | Inworld Runtime: The First AI Runtime for Consumer Applications | Inworld AI released Inworld Runtime – the first AI runtime engineered to scale consumer applications. It lets developers go from prototype to production faster and supports user growth from 10 to 10M users with minimal code changes. By auto... |
| 11.02.2025 | 7 основных ИИ для разработки игр | www.artbreeder.com
Искусственный интеллект давно перестал быть фантастикой и ворвался в самые неожиданные сферы, включая разработку игр. Сегодня создать карту, локацию или даже целый уровень — задача не только для команды разработчиков, но ... |
| 21.01.2025 | The Retro Renaissance: How Classic Games Shape Modern Gaming Culture | The world of video games is a vast ocean, teeming with innovation and nostalgia. As technology surges forward, a curious phenomenon emerges: a love for the past. Retro games are not just relics; they are vibrant threads woven into the fabri... |
| 19.01.2025 | Generative Gameplay The generation beyond Beta might have an advanced gaming experience, which might vary fromplayer to player courtesy of artificial intelligence (AI) and its subset- Generative AI. | AI is used in video games to create more realistic, responsive, and adaptive experiences for players. "On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer," said the la... |
| 07.01.2025 | Inworld AI в партнёрстве с Nvidia и Streamlabs представляет первого в мире AI-помощника для потокового вещания | Inworld AI, Streamlabs и Nvidia объединились для создания нового AI-помощника для стримеров, который может оказывать техническую поддержку в режиме реального времени и даже выступать в качестве соведущего.
Согласно пресс-релизу, в качестве ... |
| 11.09.2024 | Oracle announces OCI advancements, unveils AI coding assistant | Oracle has announced new advancements to expedite application development and deployment on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Oracle Code Assist, an AI-powered coding assistant designed to enhance developer productivity, is now accessible ... |
| 02.06.2024 | NVIDIA Releases Digital Human Microservices, Paving Way for Future of Generative AI Avatars | NVIDIA ACE Now Generally Available for Cloud, in Early Access for RTX AI PCs, in Use by Companies Across Customer Service, Gaming and Healthcare, Including Dell Technologies, ServiceNow, Aww Inc., Inventec, Perfect World Games
TAIPEI, Taiwa... |
| 23.05.2024 | Inworld Voice Augments Virtual Beings With Expressive (and Inexpensive) AI-Generated Speech | Inworld Voice Augments Virtual Beings With Expressive (and Inexpensive) AI-Generated Speech
Eric Hal Schwartz on May 23, 2024 at 9:00 am
Generative AI synthetic character startup Inworld AI has officially released a new AI voice generator d... |
| 18.03.2024 | NVIDIA Digital Human Technologies Bring AI Characters to Life | Leading AI Developers Use Suite of NVIDIA Technologies to Create Lifelike Avatars and Dynamic Characters for Everything From Games to Healthcare, Financial Services and Retail Applications
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -... |
| 07.02.2024 | 44 startups to bet your career on in 2024 | Premium Startups 44 startups to bet your career on in 2024
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| 09.01.2024 | NVIDIA NVIDIA and developers pioneer realistic digital characters for games and applications with NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine | NVIDIA
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| 08.01.2024 | NVIDIA and Developers Pioneer Lifelike Digital Characters for Games and Applications With NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine | NVIDIA ACE Microservices Debut With Generative AI Models That Will Change How People Interact With Digital Avatars
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CES — NVIDIA today introduced production microservices for the NVIDIA Avatar Clo... |
| 03.12.2023 | Meet the Platform Democratizing Joi from Blade Runner and Its Co-Founder, Ahad Shams | Maria Williams, Tech Times 03 December 2023, 09:12 pm
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Get ready to meet Moemate, an expansive AI platform that draws inspiration from K's hologram girlfriend, Joi, from the movie Blade Runner 2049.
In a world where AI is e... |
| 07.11.2023 | Microsoft разработает платформу для переноса функций ИИ на Xbox | Microsoft сотрудничает с Inworld AI для разработки инструментов Xbox, которые позволят разработчикам создавать персонажей, истории и квесты на основе искусственного интеллекта. Подразумевается, что ИИ будет играть роль помощника в дизайне.
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| 06.11.2023 | Xbox partners with Inworld AI to build AI tools for game development | GamesBeat Next's on-demand library is now live! Start catching up on the 30+ sessions you might have missed. Watch Now
Microsoft’s Xbox and Inworld AI have partnered to create AI-powered game development tools for narrative and character cr... |
| 05.08.2023 | Inworld AI Raises $50 Million for Open-Source Version of AI Character Engine, Bringing Valuation to Over Half a Billion | Urian B., Tech Times 05 August 2023, 02:08 am
Inworld AI now has a total valuation of over $500 million, or more than half a billion, after its recent funding round gave the company an additional $50 million. It comes as the company works o... |
| 03.08.2023 | Inworld AI, the Leading Character Engine, Raises New Funding From Lightspeed, Stanford, Microsoft’s M12 Fund | New Investment Positions Inworld as the Best-Funded AI x Gaming Startup, and Accelerates Development of the Company’s Character Engine Currently Powering AI NPC Experiences from Team Miaozi (NetEase Games), Niantic, LG UPlus, Alpine Electro... |
| 02.08.2023 | Inworld AI raises $50M round at $500M valuation for AI game characters | We're thrilled to announce the return of GamesBeat Summit Next, hosted in San Francisco this October, where we will explore the theme of "Playing the Edge." Apply to speak here and learn more about sponsorship opportunities here. ... |
| 02.08.2023 | Inworld AI Raises At Least $30M for Generative AI Character Creation Platform | Inworld AI Raises At Least $30M for Generative AI Character Creation Platform
Eric Hal Schwartz on August 2, 2023 at 10:00 am
Generative AI-powered virtual character creator Inworld AI has raised a new round of funding led by Lightspeed Ven... |
| 02.08.2023 | Inworld, a generative AI platform for creating NPCs, lands fresh investment | For a recovering gamer like me, one of the most exciting applications of generative AI is dynamic dialogue. I’m not suggesting AI replace writers — goodness forbid. But as anyone who’s sunk hundreds of hours into an RPG can tell you, script... |
| 02.08.2023 | Inworld AI Raises Funding; Valued at Over $500M | Inworld AI, a San Francisco, CA-based Character Engine for games and interactive experiences, raised a new funding round of undisclosed amount at a valuation of over $500M.
Backers included Lightspeed Venture Partners, Stanford University, ... |
| 02.08.2023 | Philly Power Moves: University City Science Center announces next cohort of Founders Fellows | Power Moves is a column where we chart the comings and goings of talent across the region. Got a new hire, gig or promotion? Email us at philly@technical.ly.
The University City Science Center announced four new Founders Fellows last month.... |
| 02.08.2023 | Inworld AI raises fresh funding for AI character engine at $500M valuation
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| 09.07.2023 | VB Transform 2023: Announcing the nominees for VentureBeat’s 5th Annual AI Innovation Awards | Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12 and learn how business leaders are getting ahead of the generative AI revolution. Learn More
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| 20.06.2023 | Online games offer a disturbing preview of our dystopian AI future | Scammers are using ChatGPT to infiltrate online games for a quick cash grab
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| 08.06.2023 | AI Won’t Take Jobs—It Will Augment Workers | Kylan Gibbs is the Chief Product Officer and cofounder of Inworld AI. Inworld creates smart AI characters for gaming and other use cases. |
| 01.06.2023 | Niantic announces major updates to its augmented reality platforms for developers
8th Wall embraces extended reality headsets
Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content... | Niantic Inc., the developer of the popular augmented reality game “Pokemon Go” and the Lightship AR platform, announced a number of major updates to its developer tools that will enable deeper integrations and hardware compatibility for ext... |
| 04.05.2023 | AI-Powered Characters Changing The Game | Gamers have been clamoring for better non-player characters (NPCs) for years, and the arrival of conversational AI may finally provide the computing superpower to make it possible. Several companies are now using natural language processing... |
| 22.04.2023 | Inworld AI: Create your own AI characters | Inworld AI provides an easy-to-use interface for creating AI characters with natural language prompts, simple controls, and 20 machine learning models to give characters realistic behavior and emotions. Just follow the steps on the interfac... |
| 11.04.2023 | Geenee AR and Inworld AI: Integration of AI-based avatars into augmented reality | Related Posts
Replica Studios: AI NPCs in Video Games - A New Layer of Entertainment Trailer for "Barbenheimer" generated by a neural network: The AI mixes Barbie and Oppenheimer AI on the New York Subway: Automated Software Det... |
| 17.03.2023 | Поможет ли искусственный интеллект не ударить в грязь лицом? 25 AI инструментов для крутой аватарки | В пятницу предлагаю поговорить о сервисах с искусственным интеллектом, помогающих создавать визуальный контент. Аватарки, видео, анимации стали нашей частью жизни. Моей маме скоро, я надеюсь, исполнится 81 год. Она хочет стильную аватарку с... |
| 15.03.2023 | How The Games Industry Can Leverage Advances In AI To Revolutionize NPCs | Kylan Gibbs is the Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Inworld AI. Inworld creates smart AI characters for gaming and other use cases. |
| 15.02.2023 | Inworld AI: 99% of Gamers are Excited by the Potential of Smart NPCs Powered by Advanced Artificial Intelligence | Inworld AI, a developer platform for advanced NPC behavior and dialogue, released the findings of its new report ‘Gamer Attitudes to NPCs.’ In the first study of its kind, the report surveyed over 1,000 gamers in the US aged 16-50 and found... |
| 07.02.2023 | Цукерберг соберётся с Гейтсом в грендайзер, и еще 4 предикта на 2023 | Если вы преисполнились уже настолько, что ничего нового и не ждёте от грядущего года, то вот вам 5 тем, которые скорее всего будут жужжать вокруг в течение ближайшего будущего. Как говорится, осведомлён, значит вооружён. Теперь вы сможете в... |
| 30.01.2023 | Meta is killing Move, another experimental social app from its in-house incubator NPE Team | Meta is killing off yet another project from its in-house R&D group, the NPE Team, following the company’s sizable layoffs announced in November, impacting 13% of its workforce. The latest experiment to be wound down is the social to-do... |
| 13.12.2022 | Synthetic Santa Claus Joins Freud and Zeus on New Inworld Arcade of AI Characters | Synthetic Santa Claus Joins Freud and Zeus on New Inworld Arcade of AI Characters
Eric Hal Schwartz on December 13, 2022 at 2:00 pm
Children can now converse with a virtual Santa Claus built on Inworld AI’s synthetic character creator platf... |
| 17.11.2022 | Neal Stephenson Joins Judges for $1M Inworld AI Character Grants | Neal Stephenson Joins Judges for $1M Inworld AI Character Grants
Eric Hal Schwartz on November 17, 2022 at 8:30 am
Virtual being platform Inworld AI is offering $1 million in development funding to AI character creators for games and other ... |
| 17.11.2022 | The Generative AI Revolution in Games
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Part I – Observations and Predictions
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Part II – Market Map | To understand how radically gaming is about to be transformed by Generative AI, look no further than this recent Twitter post by @emmanuel_2m. In this post he explores using Stable Diffusion + Dreambooth, popular 2D Generative AI models, to... |
| 13.10.2022 | Inworld Empowers Developers To Create Interactive Metahumans With Help From Epic Megagrant | AI will make digital humans interactive and even more realistic
Inworld AI, a creative suite for building AI characters, announced that it has received an Epic MegaGrant from Epic Games. Inworld will use the support to combine its AI soluti... |
| 05.09.2022 | Inworld – NPC on AI Steroids by Alexander Gornyi | Virtual characters are a hype of recent years. Meaning we draw a virtual John and he will broadcast in our corporate blog better than the ever busy CEO who can never find the time to film some stories. It sounds somewhat weird to me, but so... |
| 25.08.2022 | $56 Million For Ready Player Me Avatars, Inworld Raises $50 Million For AI NPCs, New AR, VR Headsets | An assortment of varied cross-platform avatars from Ready Player Me. Ready Player Me |
| 24.08.2022 | Inworld AI Closes $50M Series A Funding | Inworld AI, a San Francisco, CA-based developer platform for creating AI-driven virtual characters, raised $50M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Section 32 and Intel Capital with participation from Founders Fund, Accelerator Invest... |
| 23.08.2022 | Inworld AI raises $50M for its AI-powered, no-code virtual character development studio
Show your support for our mission by joining our Cube Club and Cube Event Community of experts. Join the commun... | Inworld AI said today it has closed on a $50 million early-stage round of funding as it looks to grow adoption of its unique, artificial intelligence-powered virtual character development platform.
Today’s Series A round was led by Section ... |
| 23.08.2022 | Inworld AI Inks $50M Series A Financing |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Inworld AI today announced the close of its $50 million Series A funding round.
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| 23.08.2022 | Inworld AI raises $50M to populate games and the metaverse with smart characters | Inworld AI has raised $50 million for its developer platform for creating AI-driven virtual characters in video games and the metaverse. The firm raised the money in March and is announcing it now. It also hired special effects and entertai... |
| 23.08.2022 | Disney-backed Inworld raises new cash for its AI-powered virtual characters | If software is eating the world, AI isn’t far behind. AI-powered text-, art- and audio-generating systems will soon make — and already are making — their way into the tools people use every day, from programming environments and spellcheck ... |
| 23.08.2022 | Inworld AI Closes $50Million Series A to Populate Video Games and the Metaverse with Interactive AI-Driven Characters | Funding led by Section32 and Intel Capital, alongside participation in the Disney Accelerator, will empower developers to create interactive AI-driven characters for virtual worlds.
Inworld AI, a developer platform for creating AI-driven vi... |
| 23.08.2022 | Metaverse Virtual Being Startup Inworld AI Raises $50M | Metaverse Virtual Being Startup Inworld AI Raises $50M
Eric Hal Schwartz on August 23, 2022 at 4:45 pm
Metaverse virtual character creator Inworld AI has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round led by Section 32 and Intel Capital. In... |
| 14.07.2022 | Polygon makes it into Disney’s Web3 accelerator program | CryptoNewsStartups
Roehl Niño Bautista · 14 Jul 2022 · 1 min readPolygon makes it into Disney’s Web3 accelerator program
Polygon, an India-based blockchain firm, is one among six firms chosen to be part of the Disney Accelerator program, wh... |
| 28.04.2022 | Inworld shows off impressive AI-powered character generation and interaction | Characters in games and other digital experiences tend to be rather static, working from a set of lines and responses written long ago. But the future of games could be more responsive, generative, and of course AI-powered — something Inwor... |
| 28.04.2022 | Ilya Gelfenbeyn and Kylan Gibbs of Inworld on Voice AI in the Metaverse – Voicebot Podcast Ep 253 | Ilya Gelfenbeyn and Kylan Gibbs of Inworld on Voice AI in the Metaverse – Voicebot Podcast Ep 253
Bret Kinsella on April 28, 2022 at 9:32 am
Ilya Gelfenbeyn is CEO and Kylan Gibbs is chief product officer of Inworld. The company has a novel... |
| 08.03.2022 | Metaverse Virtual Being Startup Inworld AI Raises $10M | Metaverse Virtual Being Startup Inworld AI Raises $10M
Eric Hal Schwartz on March 8, 2022 at 6:00 am
Virtual being platform Inworld AI has raised $10 million in strategic funding led by BITKRAFT Ventures and joined by The Venture Reality Fu... |
| 02.12.2021 | Meta’s NPE team takes a global focus with seed-stage investments, offices in emerging markets | Meta’s (formerly, Facebook’s) experimental app division, the NPE team, is shifting gears. The group, which first launched in mid-2019, has been focused on building consumer-facing apps that would allow the company to test out new social fea... |
| 08.11.2021 | Inworld AI Announces $7 Million in Seed Funding from Kleiner Perkins, CRV and Meta for Metaverse AI Development Platform | MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Inworld AI, providing a developer platform to create AI-powered virtual humans for immersive realities including the metaverse, VR/AR, games, and virtual worlds, today announced $7 mi... |
| 08.11.2021 | Inworld AI Announces $7 Million in Seed Funding from Kleiner Perkins, CRV and Meta for Metaverse AI Development Platform | MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Inworld AI, providing a developer platform to create AI-powered virtual humans for immersive realities including the metaverse, VR/AR, games, and virtual worlds, today announced $7 mi... |
| 08.11.2021 | Inworld AI Announces $7 Million in Seed Funding from Kleiner Perkins, CRV and Meta for Metaverse AI Development Platform | Inworld AI, providing a developer platform to create AI-powered virtual humans for immersive realities including the metaverse, VR/AR, games, and virtual worlds, announced $7 million in seed funding. The round is co-led by Kleiner Perkins a... |
| 08.11.2021 | Inworld AI Announces $7 Million in Seed Funding from Kleiner Perkins, CRV and Meta for Metaverse AI Development Platform | Founded by the team behind Google-acquired API.AI (now Dialogflow), Inworld AI enables businesses to offer AI-powered virtual human agents for the metaverse, games and other immersive realities
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| 08.11.2021 | Inworld AI Raises $7M in Seed Funding | Inworld AI, a Mountain View, Calif. – based provider of a developer platform to create AI-powered virtual humans for immersive realities, raised $7m in seed funding.
The round was co-led by Kleiner Perkins and CRV, with participation from M... |
| 08.11.2021 | Inworld AI Announces $7M in Seed Funding |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Inworld AI, a metaverse developer, announced $7 million in seed funding co-led by Kleiner Perkins and CRV.
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| - | Inworld AI: Bring your games to life with AI-powered NPCs | Home » Artificial Intelligence » Inworld AI: Bring your games to life with AI-powered NPCs
Inworld AI is a development platform for AI characters which simplifies the creation of NPCs with AI. This AI NPC character engine allows users to cr... |
| - | Inworld: Valuation Now At Over $500 Million Following New Funding Round | Inworld AI – a leading Character Engine for games and interactive experiences, has raised new funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners — bringing the new valuation of the company to over $500 million. This funding round includes additional ... |
