NVIDIA Supercharges AI Agents With Human Smarts

Teaching AI to “Read the Room”

NVIDIA is deepening the emotional and contextual intelligence of AI agents with a powerful suite of updates and ecosystem partnerships. Announced at COMPUTEX 2024, the company is enhancing its NVIDIA ACE (Avatar Cloud Engine) platform with new capabilities that make digital avatars more expressive, socially aware, and adaptable. Features like Riva ASR (Automated Speech Recognition), expressive speech synthesis, and natural language understanding are being fine-tuned for real-time applications, enabling virtual agents to better grasp tone, intent, and emotional nuance—a major leap forward in conversational AI. These advances are critical steps toward more human-like and effective virtual interactions for businesses and consumers alike.

Partners in Intelligence

To push these advances into real-world applications, NVIDIA is partnering with industry leaders like Hippocratic AI and Quantiphi. Hippocratic AI is using the platform to power empathetic healthcare agents capable of handling preoperative outreach and chronic care management with warmth and precision. Quantiphi, meanwhile, is deploying NVIDIA’s Maluuba-based models to upgrade customer support, retail assistance, and banking services. By leveraging NVIDIA’s optimized NIM microservices and tokens like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), these companies are bringing smarter, more intuitive AI agents to market faster—helping businesses deliver better service at scale while reducing operational burden.