inworld

Inworld is a technology company that develops tools for creating AI-powered virtual characters used in video games, simulations, metaverse environments, and other interactive media. The core offering is a cloud-based platform that enables creators to design, train, and deploy NPCs or virtual agents with distinctive personalities, memory, and dialogue capabilities. Key components typically include a character designer for setting backstory and traits, a memory module to maintain context across sessions, and a dialogue engine that can generate dynamic responses in real time. Many deployments also incorporate speech synthesis and lip synchronization to produce spoken interactions.

The platform is designed to be integrated with common development workflows, providing APIs and plugins that work with popular game engines and web applications. This enables characters to participate in gameplay, guided simulations, customer-facing experiences, and live events within virtual environments.

Inworld emphasizes safety and content control, offering moderation tools and policies to manage what characters say and how they respond, as well as controls over memory usage and privacy. The company positions its technology as a way to humanize virtual spaces by enabling more natural and context-aware interactions between users and digital agents.

While the field is evolving, Inworld has been noted in industry coverage for its approach to scalable, personality-driven NPCs and for facilitating authoring workflows that separate character design from engine-level programming.