Ubisoft has created a prototype game with voice-controlled AI teammates

Ubisoft has announced a new game prototype with voice-controlled AI teammates that understand visual context and natural language. This “Teammates” project builds on the Neo NPCs that Ubisoft introduced with Nvidia in 2024 to demonstrate in-game AI that can naturally respond to players. A key difference this time, aside from 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.

Even though Ubisoft describes it as a playable “experimental research project,” Teammates still uses the basic concepts of a first-person shooter. The prototype puts players in the role of a “member of the Resistance in a dystopian future, tasked with moving through an enemy base to find five missing members of their team,” with guiding AI characters in the game the key to success. Ubisoft has developed three AI NPCs for the project: “Jaspar”, an AI assistant with knowledge of the game’s lore and the ability to customize the game.