Anyone can now make plugins for Nvidia’s promising G-Assist AI overlay, with options …

(Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia G-Assist is one of the few AI tools we in the PC Gamer hardware lair have genuinely liked the look of. G-Assist promises quite a lot, but at bottom it’s a local language model you can run off your RTX 30-series (or above) GPU to help you with gaming-related tasks. Now, however, it looks like the number of tasks it’ll be able to perform could be about to explode, as it’s opening up to community plugin development.Nvidia explains: “This week’s AI Garage blog focuses on how Project G-Assist is receiving even more support for tinkering, allowing for lightweight custom plug-ins to improve the PC experience.”And further: “Plug-ins are lightweight add-ons that give software new capabilities. G-Assist plug-ins can control music, connect with large language models and much more.”Setting aside the questionable use of a dash in the middle of the perfectly respectable word “plugin”, this all sounds like very good news for an AI tool that we already liked the look of.Initially it was the ability to have AI help you optimise your game settings that tickled our fancy, but upon its launch last month our James lamented the absence of its gaming AI that can
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