Design your digital twin: Genies' new AI avatar platform brings custom characters to life
Calling all gamers and texters! The future of AI is here, and it's bringing the coolest, cutest characters to life thanks to the up-and-coming tech brand Genies.
Genies is a new AI platform that enables users to create one-of-a-kind avatars. Through customizable character development, you can transform the way you communicate digitally.
Genies
Ever felt like texting is impersonal? Well, say goodbye to that with Genies.
This up-and-coming AI tech is bringing customized avatars to users that are as detailed as ever.
The new tech is interactive, personal, and makes game-ready companions! Curious? Click explore to start learning more about this new way to connect.
Create emotionally intelligent, wildly realistic looking, and communicative AI avatars NOW!
The platform is bridging a gap in AI that has existed till now by creating a fully accessible way to communicate across cultures, languages, and all with intense emotional capacity.
Users can personalize their character to near identical likeness or go beyond with whimsical imaginations (all without prior tech experience needed!).
But perhaps the most enticing aspect, similar to platforms like ChatGPT, is that your personal character has human-like memory.
After you create your avatar, it takes on a life-like memory that not only allows it to take on its own unique personality but also to evolve as you engage with it!
It sounds futuristic, but believe us, the tech is real and, according to Genies, it is going to revolutionize the way we play, talk, and more.
Genies avatars in the near future will be available across platforms, from gaming to communication apps and more. As of now, they will be partnered with the mass game engine Unity.
With this innovative technology, you do not just have a 'virtual friend' — you have a real one. Your character will be able to fully build a relationship with you and others digitally.
'Real friends aren't chat boxes. You build trust with someone you can see, play alongside and laugh with, someone fully expressive, visually present, and playfully interactive.
'That's what it takes to turn AI into real companionship,' says CEO Akash Nigam.
Get your virtual mini-me ready to rock ASAP when you explore the Genies Beta available on their website now.
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