Announcement
Introducing Genesis Gateway
One connection for speech recognition, language models and voice, with real-time routing around slow or failing providers. Live first for Los Santos Alive players.
Running in GTA V today · 30,000+ downloads
Characters that flinch before they think.
Everyone else is wiring a chatbot to a voice. Genesis is the nervous system: reflexes, perception, memory and action, modelled on how real minds work. Live today in Los Santos Alive.
Demos run live in GTA V. Here to play? Get Los Santos Alive free
Convenience store · Los Santos Alive
clerk · npc_0417- 0.00s
World event
Player draws a pistol and aims it at the clerk.
- 0.02s
Reflex · no model call
HandsUphands are up before a word is generated
- 0.03s
Self-monitoring
state += "I just raised my hands. I'm terrified."
- 0.48s
Thought · first audio
"Okay, okay! Don't shoot. The register's open, just take it."
reflex fires 0.46s before speechrepresentative timings
- downloads of Los Santos Alive
- 30,000+
- downloads of Los Santos Alive
- registered players
- 2,600+
- registered players
- paying subscribers
- 500+
- paying subscribers
- player stop to first audio on fast routes
- ~0.5s
- player stop to first audio on fast routes
The problem
Most AI NPCs are chatbots in a costume.
An LLM with a voice can chat. It doesn't know it's raining, that a gun is pointed at it, or that you robbed it last week.
What a nervous system adds
- Flinch, duck and surrender before the model has said a word
- Notice their own reactions, so what they say matches what they did
- Play an authored scene exactly as written, until the player breaks it
- Know it is raining, who is nearby and what you are holding
- Remember people, places and promises
- Take real actions in the game, not just talk
- Keep talking when an AI provider goes down
Designed to be engine-neutral. Running in GTA V today.
Genesis Runtime · the core
You head for the car. She's already at the passenger door.
Runtime is the mind around the model. It perceives, remembers, reacts and acts. Your game just executes.
In · world context
{
"character": { "role": "companion", "state": "on_foot" },
"player": { "activity": "walking_to_vehicle", "speaking": false },
"world": { "time": "23:40", "weather": "light rain", "zone": "Vespucci" },
"vehicle": { "model": "Sultan", "owner": "player", "free_seat": "passenger" },
"radio": { "station": "Non-Stop-Pop FM" },
"addressee": null
}Out · speech + actions
"Passenger side's mine. And I'm changing the station."
FollowEnterVehicle · passenger
Available to this character
FollowWaitHereWalkAwayEnterVehicleExitVehicleDriveFollowVehicleEngineOffSitLeanGiveTakeUseDiscardHandsUpKneelResume
reflex · gun aimed at NPC
→ HandsUp
reflex · gunshot nearby
→ Flee
reflex · tased
→ HandsUp
reflex · vehicle crash
→ Flee · Attack · WalkAway
Research
Brains don't wait for a thought to pull your hand off a stove. Neither do our characters.
Every part of Genesis Runtime starts with how real minds work. A bigger model doesn't give you this. Structure around the model does.
Explore our research- 01
Two speeds of thought
Dual-process cognition · reflex arcs
- 02
Knowing what your body just did
Efference copy · self-monitoring
- 03
Memory that works like memory
Episodic, semantic and prospective memory
- 04
Remembering at the right moment
Cue-dependent recall
For studios
AI characters that pay for themselves.
We've shipped AI to paying players, so we know why studios hesitate. Genesis answers all four reasons.
“Who pays for every line?”
Players do, in your store.
Credits styled as your own currency, sold in your menus. Live AI becomes revenue, not a server bill.
“Will it stay in character?”
AAA-depth scenes, written at scale.
Batch-generate scenes for your world, review them, ship them pre-baked. Characters improvise only off-script.
“Will it say something it shouldn't?”
Your rules hold.
Low-latency safeguards keep conversations inside your world rules and rating, without breaking character.
“Who keeps it running?”
We do. No API keys.
No provider accounts for players. Gateway routes around outages; model changes never need a patch.
Genesis Gateway
And they never go quiet. Every turn is routed across several speech, language and voice providers, with failover before the player notices.
How Gateway worksIn production · Los Santos Alive
We're building Genesis inside the hardest test we could find: open-world GTA V.
Players speak into a microphone. Pedestrians, suspects, partners and dispatchers answer in their own voices, and act. Every Genesis system was hardened here first.
Read the case studyPolice procedures
ID checks, breathalyzers, searches and arrests, all by voice.
Conversational dispatch
Talk on the radio; dispatch and units answer live, not from clips.
Autonomous partners
AI officers ride along, place cones and search suspects on their own.
Living crowds
NPCs talk to each other and react to gunfire, crashes and threats.
Players filmed it · 1.7M+ views on YouTube
“Isso não é real.” “This isn't real.”
MuuhPro, after talking to a Los Santos Alive NPC
In players' own words
Nobody scripted any of this.
We asked Los Santos Alive players for a moment that made the world feel genuinely alive. These are their answers, word for word.
I wrote that I was crying, the lady went to other NPCs, they calmed me down.
Not being main character anymore but just simply a person that's interfering with what NPC's are doing.
…had a conversation with a lady standing outside. We talked for awhile and she decided to ride with me to get food. Learned she was from Liberty City.
- Net Promoter Score
- 65
- Net Promoter Score
- 16 promoters, 1 detractor. Average 9.1 / 10 likelihood to recommend.
- would be much more likely to buy a game with NPCs like this
- 20 of 23
- would be much more likely to buy a game with NPCs like this
- NPCs with persistent memories, goals, relationships and lives of their own.
- came back to GTA V because of Los Santos Alive
- 13 of 23
- came back to GTA V because of Los Santos Alive
- 18 of 23 now spend more time playing.
- say it made them more positive about AI in games
- 21 of 23
- say it made them more positive about AI in games
- Only 15 of 23 feel positive about generative AI in general.
Survey of 23 Los Santos Alive players, July 2026. Self-selected respondents from the LSA community.
Questions
What studios and investors ask us first.
Isn't this just a GTA V mod?
Los Santos Alive is where we test. Genesis is the product. GTA V is the hardest open world we could find: police procedures, vehicles, weapons and crowds, with real players who notice every mistake. Genesis itself is designed to be engine-neutral; a game describes its world and the actions it supports, and the same characters run on top.
How is this different from wiring an LLM to a voice?
An LLM with a voice can chat. It doesn't know what is happening around it, can't react faster than it can generate text, forgets you between sessions and can't act in the world. Genesis Runtime adds the perception, reflexes, memory and actions around the model. That is the hard part, and it's what we've spent our time on.
What engines do you support?
Genesis is running in production in GTA V today. We are working with a small number of teams on integrations beyond it. Tell us your engine and we'll tell you honestly where we are.
How fast is it?
On fast routes, characters start speaking about half a second after the player stops talking. Reflexes don't wait for a model at all.
What about player data and payments?
Payments run through Stripe, so card details never touch our servers. Accounts are isolated from each other, provider keys never reach the game client, and analytics use coarse, city-level location rather than stored IP addresses.
Newsroom
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Product
Inside conversational dispatch in Los Santos Alive
Police radio that answers back. How Genesis replaces menus and prerecorded clips with a live channel shared by the player, dispatch and responding units.
Building a world that should talk back?
We work with studios, simulation teams and investors who think characters should do more than read a script. Tell us what you are building.
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