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Synthesia launches Roleplay Sessions, an interactive AI training product where employees practice conversations with avatars that provide feedback, moving beyond video creation into performance management.
Pixi launches an iOS messaging app that uses on-device AI to send interactive AR characters that respond to real-world surroundings and user emotions, aiming to make conversations more playful and present.
A discussion about the evolution of AI social apps from text chat to real-time video interfaces, highlighting Mel's multimodal interaction stack and the technical challenges of latency, lip sync, and orchestration.
LongCat has released an open source video avatar model on Hugging Face that is free to use and capable of impressive feats.
LongCat-Video-Avatar 1.5 is an upgraded open-source framework for audio-driven human video generation with improved lip synchronization, production-ready stability, and efficient 8-step inference.
The author tests Google's Gemini AI avatar tool, which creates a digital clone from a selfie video to insert into AI-generated videos, finding the result impressively realistic yet unsettling.
Ona AI is building digital sign language avatars and inclusive datasets to improve accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing communities.