Nvidia unveiled Project G-Assist, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant powered by its Ray Tracing Texel eXtreme (RTX) platform on Sunday at Computex 2024. The tech giant introduced it as a personal gaming assistant for PCs that can answer questions about any video game, including gaming strategy and analyzing multiplayer replays. The AI comes with natural language and computer vision capabilities, allowing it to accept text, speech, and on-screen information as input. There is currently no launch date for the product. Notably, Microsoft also demonstrated a similar use case for Copilot during its Build event.
Nvidia unveils Project G-Assist
Project G-Assist is part of Nvidia’s RTX AI toolkit, which has already seen several other announcements on June 2nd as well. The AI assistant is specifically the company’s attempt to bring gaming knowledge to players with generative AI. Interestingly enough, in 2017, Nvidia Posted a video on X (formerly known as Twitter) about GeForce GTX G-Assist, a tool that can play games on the player’s behalf, as an April Fool’s joke.
Now, seven years later, Nvidia is making that dream a reality. So what can the AI assistant do? In a tech demonstration featuring Studio Wildcard’s game ARK: Survival Ascended, the company highlighted a wide range of areas where Project G-Assist can help players. The AI assistant is primarily intended to help you quickly find the best weapon in the game or a solution when you’re stuck in a mission, but it can also perform much more complex tasks.
During the demo, Project G-Assist will help create a game strategy for early-game survival, provide analysis of multiplayer replays, help find the best settings to play the game in, and discover the best way to optimize the game on a given PC. Notably, the AI assistant will gain both large language model (LLM) capabilities and computer vision, allowing it to understand natural language and pick up context by analyzing the screen in real time.
Project G-Assist can run both on servers and locally on the device, powered by Nvidia GeForce RTX GPUs to give gamers flexibility. Based on the demo, it appears that the AI assistant will have access to the internet in either case, as it may need to scour the web to find answers to certain questions.
Currently, Project G-Assist only exists as a demo and Nvidia has not yet released details on a launch date.
