Ubisoft has announced a new game prototype featuring voice-controlled AI teammates that understand visual context and natural language. This "Teammates" project builds on the Neo NPCs Ubisoft showed off with Nvidia in 2024 to demo in-game AI that can naturally respond to players. A key difference this time, besides the complexity of the interactions the prototype supports, is that Teammates is already being played in a closed playtest with "a few hundred players," Ubisoft says.
"If someone else has already created an agent that has information that your team needs, you shouldn't have to reinvent the wheel every single time for every individual," said Chin. At launch there will be 12 pre-built teammate agents to handle the most common Asana use cases. For marketing, there are AI teammates tailored to campaign management and content production, for instance. For IT purposes, there are prebuilt teammates for ticketing, bug tracking, and sprint planning.