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Getting Started with Tavus: Build, Customize, and Deploy Your First PAL

Tavus's PAL builder lets users create human-like AI avatars that can see, hear, and speak, with options to customize faces and voices or use built-in tools. The demo shows building a study buddy named Anna via a conversational guide, deploying it as a web page, and adding connectors to integrate with services like Gmail. The team emphasizes that PALS can handle multimodal interactions, including presentations and kiosk modes, and supports multilingual conversations.

Phoenix-4.5: The World's Fastest, Most Realistic AI Human

Phoenix 4.5 is a new AI human rendering model that generates more of the person in real-time, making interactions feel more natural and trustworthy. It uses a GAN-based network to encode expression, allowing for tighter lip sync, natural head movement, and upper-body motion tied to speech. The model also handles previously difficult physical features like glasses and long hair, and can render new identities zero-shot, reducing fine-tuning time from 4 to 2 hours.

Introducing Sparrow-2: AI That Knows When to Listen, Wait, and Speak

Sparrow-2 is a conversational AI model that understands when to listen, wait, or speak by analyzing full audio context, not just silence.

Meet Dom: The AI You Talk To That Actually Does Your Work

Dom AI helps a user design 3D-printed car accessories, build an iPod cradle, and diagram a Spotify-to-iPod sync app.

Introducing Phoenix-4: Real-Time Human Rendering with Emotional Intelligence

Tavus introduces Phoenix-4, a real-time human rendering model with emotional intelligence for natural, empathetic AI conversations.