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Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test.
48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video.
It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).
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The 48% figure and "video Turing test" claim are from Tavus's own study of 54 one-minute calls, not independently verified or using a standard protocol. Griffin-Lite leads NVIDIA's VideoFDB benchmark on their public leaderboard.
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We've teamed up with @livekit to make this Halloween a little spookier đź‘»
Welcome to Night of the Living Agents: video-call monsters with faces by Tavus and voices by LiveKit.
Post a clip with #NightOfTheLivingAgents by Sunday night to win free credits:
halloween.tavus.io
Your PAL can already present a deck, slide by slide, and take questions as it goes.
It can walk the whole deck, or pull up the exact slide a question calls for, whenever someone wants to hear it.
Turn on Presentation Mode in PAL Maker at maker.tavus.io
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The virtual companion company.
About two weeks ago @tavus showed a virtual being that you could talk with on your phone.
It blew me away. Have been predicting they are coming for a long time.
This morning I was blessed to be able to pick @hassaanraza’s mind and get insights about where the virtual companion market is about to go.
But I wasn’t expecting one of the coolest startup offices I have ever seen.
And we talk about both the pros and cons of this technology. The company calls them “Pals” and they have deep impacts on the future of autonomous cars, robots, and how humans work with brain computer interfaces.
Already retailers, museums, game designers, and others are building them into new things.
Try it at tavus.io
Face Studio started as our in-house tool for making faces. It's the fastest, easiest and most fun way to make one, and now it's in PAL Maker for everyone.
Start from a photo or one sentence, change anything down to the collar, then try it as claymation or anime.
maker.tavus.io
You did what now…?
I asked Claude to build an office for the @tavus PALs...
I was not expecting it to build THAT kind of office
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We’re hiring across the GTM team at @tavus.
Open roles for a Marketing Lead, BDRs, Growth Marketers, AEs, and more.
If you’ve spent your career refining your craft to a master level, come join others who’ve done the same.
Bonus perk: the office has a full computer museum.
deskPALs for all.
I’ve been experimenting with new hardware form factors for my assistant, Dom. My favorite so far: the deskPAL!
Dom now lives on my desk, can speak up to get my attention, and is connected to my calendar, email etc.
I find myself using him consistently throughout the day for brainstorming and making sure I don't miss anything.
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I’ve been experimenting with new hardware form factors for my assistant, Dom. My favorite so far: the deskPAL!
Dom now lives on my desk, can speak up to get my attention, and is connected to my calendar, email etc.
I find myself using him consistently throughout the day for brainstorming and making sure I don't miss anything.
The fastest way to build a PAL is to start with one.
Starter Kits are ready-to-go PALs, AI you talk to face to face, for onboarding, candidate interviews, customer service coaching, compliance training and more. Customize one and go live in a few clicks.
maker.tavus.io
You built a PAL, so now put it where people can talk with it.
Deployments gives you three ways: a link anyone can open, a widget for your site, or an embed in your product. Pick one and hit Create, with no backend or API keys needed.
Deploy your PAL at maker.tavus.io
No menus to tap through. You just walk up and talk.
Kiosk mode puts a Tavus PAL on a walk-up kiosk. Here it’s checking in a guest at our front desk.
We’re opening a pilot to a limited number of companies. Want in? Let us know here: tavus.io/demo
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At @tavus we spend a lot of time thinking about personality and behavior in AI, and how to bring the richness and nuance of human communication to models.
Excited to share our new paper on Contrastive Covariance Steering (CCS), a method for precisely controlling individual behaviors in LLMs without unintentionally changing other characteristics.
Training-free, closed-form LLM steering that removes confounds (topic, style) from the steering vector. Beats every steering baseline in 12/12 model–domain settings, +48–70% on AxBench.
arxiv.org/abs/2610.14025
Did you know your PAL doesn’t have to be a person?
With Phoenix-4.5, one image of a mascot, game character, or your own creation becomes a PAL that talks, listens, and moves in realtime.
Turn your favorite character into a PAL at maker.tavus.io
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@hassaanraza (Co-Founder & CEO, @tavus) joined @tbpn to talk about Griffin, their new Human Interaction Model.
Last week, Griffin became the first model to pass the real-time video Turing test.
Now we’re hiring more people to build what comes next across research, engineering, safety and GTM, including forward deployed engineers and a marketing leader.
Join us: tavus.io/careers
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Just put two @tavus Griffin PALs into a conversation with each other... why does it feel like i'm thirdwheeling?
Glad you noticed the difference, Linus. Thanks for giving Griffin an early test!
It’s important that Griffin meets us where we are. You should be able to take your time, and you shouldn’t need to spell everything out.
