Microsoft announced updates to the DirectX API that would pave the way for neural rendering. Neural rendering is a concept where portions of a frame in real-time 3D graphics are drawn using a generative AI model that works in tandem with classic raster 3D graphics pipeline, along with other advancem...
I always felt that ray tracing was the modern equivalent of physx cards. Path tracing is the real visual leap technology and the dedicated hardware ray tracing is far too weak still to make significant generational advances right now. AI rendering might be a viable alternative technology with actual fruit to bear on the hardware side.