Unity AI assistant
Powering Faster Development and Deeper Learning
The rise of generative AI and models like GPT has reshaped how people create and learn, making it possible to generate code, assets, and ideas faster than ever before. For Unity, this shift represented a unique opportunity to evolve the development experience—moving beyond traditional tools toward a more intelligent, accessible, and creative workflow built around natural language and automation. By introducing its own AI solution directly into the Unity Editor, Unity empowered users with contextual assistance tailored to real-time 2D and 3D creation. On top of external tools, creators can now learn, prototype, and build inside a single environment, with AI helping reduce friction and accelerate the journey from idea to interactive experience.
From online to native integration
Unity initially explored this opportunity through a web-based AI assistant designed to help users search and navigate documentation more efficiently. While useful, this approach revealed a deeper need: true value comes from understanding a creator’s project in context. By moving AI directly into the Unity Editor, Unity unlocked the ability for AI to act as an intelligent agent—aware of scenes, assets, and scripts—capable of providing meaningful guidance, automating tasks, and accelerating both creation and learning within the environment where developers actually work.