LiveX Launches AI City With Life-Size AI Hosts
LiveX's new platform places interactive AI Hosts into physical venues, from retail stores to airports and hospitals.
Updated on Nov. 3, 2026 in Artificial Intelligence
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LiveX announced AI City at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona on November 3, 2026, bringing life-size AI Hosts into everyday physical spaces. The company says its AI Hosts are deployed at more than 100 customer sites.
Why it matters
Traditional kiosks rely on fixed menus and cannot hold natural conversation or offer multilingual help, while many businesses and public venues lack the staff to provide personalized assistance. AI Hosts are positioned as a way to fill that gap in physical settings.
LiveX runs on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and builds its visual AI agents using the Metropolis VSS Blueprint, NVIDIA Cosmos, and a fine-tuned NVIDIA Nemotron model. The extraction does not disclose latency, accuracy, or throughput figures for the system.
The players
LiveX
LiveX is a company based in Palo Alto that builds AI Hosts for physical spaces and runs its system on NVIDIA hardware.
NVIDIA
NVIDIA is a semiconductor and AI computing company whose GPUs and software platforms power LiveX's system and whose first Physical AI Host debuted at its GTC 2026 conference.
The details
AI City features interactive 3D maps, 3D product recommendations, multilingual translation, and a Physical AI Host experience powered by Lyra. Guests can interact with AI Hosts hands-free, without downloading an app, scanning a QR code, or entering a password.
Timeline
November 3, 2026: LiveX announces AI City at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona.
The Tech Race
AI City positions LiveX as a challenger to fixed-menu kiosks, which the extraction notes cannot offer natural conversation or multilingual assistance. The extraction also states that general-purpose robots remain years away from widespread deployment, placing AI Hosts in a narrower, near-term category.
Visitors to participating stores, airports, hospitals, and hotels may be able to get product recommendations, directions, and translation from an AI Host without installing an app or scanning a code. The extraction does not confirm pricing or whether these hosts will be available at additional locations.
The takeaway
Interactive AI in physical spaces is moving from pilot to deployment, and the practical test will be whether venues see measurable gains in service over fixed kiosks. Readers should watch for independent performance data as the deployments scale.
Further reading
For broader context on how these systems are built, see Artificial Intelligence coverage on Wisevoter.
Source note: This article includes information reported by VentureBeat.
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