AI avatars
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Tavus's Falcon cuts conversation video latency to 430ms
The avatar model generates video one chunk at a time so it can interrupt and react, and Tavus measured a 430-millisecond audio-to-video delay on a B200.
OmniHuman 2.0 generates 5-minute avatar video at $0.07 a second
BytePlus says the model reads tone, emotion and words in the audio and cut the per-second price from $0.12 to $0.07.
Half of Tavus's testers mistook its AI for a real person
Griffin is the first system to pass a video Turing test, and the company that built it says it is not safe to sell yet. Based Boomerstein has not stopped pacing since.
Synthesia launches Sessions, a two-way AI avatar platform
The AI video company's new product lets people hold live conversations with lifelike avatars, starting with sales roleplay practice and interview-style surveys.
Google makes Live Avatar generally available in Gemini Enterprise
The feature layers generated video, lip-sync and facial expressions onto Gemini 3.8 Live's speech model, and it supports 97 languages, Google said in a Cloud blog post.
Gemini 3.8 Live adds real-time avatars in 97 languages
The avatars are generally available in Gemini Enterprise through US and EU endpoints, and every stream carries Google's SynthID watermark.
Meta Connect 2026: every announcement and its AI video impact
The keynote adds a real-time avatar model that streams at 870 milliseconds, hologram calls on WhatsApp and a pair of VR glasses for $1,299.99.
47 YouTube channels use AI presenters to report German politics
CeMAS analysed 38 of the channels behind 1,876 videos published between December 2025 and August 2026, which together drew about 7.55 million views.