Tavus Launches Phoenix-4: the First Real-Time Human Rendering Model with Emotional Intelligence
Tavus, the human computing company building lifelike AI humans that can see, hear, and respond in real time, today launched Phoenix-4, a real-time behavior generation engine that generates emotionally responsive, context-aware human presence in live conversation.
Tavus Introduces Raven-1, Bringing Multimodal Perception to Real-Time Conversational AI
Tavus, the human computing company building lifelike AI humans that can see, hear, and respond in real time, launched Raven-1 into GA today, a multimodal perception system that enables AI to understand emotion, intent, and context the way humans do.
Tavus Introduces Sparrow-1, Advancing Human-Level Conversational Timing in Real-Time Voice and Video
Tavus, the human computing company building lifelike AI humans that can see, hear, and respond in real time, today launched Sparrow-1, a conversational-flow control model designed to bring human-level timing to real-time voice and video AI.
Tavus Announces AI Santa 2.0: The World’s First Emotionally Intelligent Holiday PAL
Tavus, the leading human computing company building lifelike AI humans that can see, hear, respond, and take actions, today announced AI Santa 2.0, the most advanced and emotionally intelligent version of Santa ever created. Built as an official Tavus PAL, AI Santa brings the magic of the North Pole to life with human-level presence, memory, and multimodal communication across video, voice, and text.
Tavus Raises $40M to Build the Next Frontier of Intelligence: Human Computing
Today, Tavus announced $40 million in Series B funding to build the future of human computing, led by CRV with participation from Scale Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, HubSpot Ventures, and Flex Capital. This vision takes shape with the launch of PALs: AI humans built by Tavus with emotional intelligence, agentic capabilities, and true multimodality with text, voice, and face-to-face.
AI Research Company Tavus Debuts Hummingbird-0, Ushering in a New Era of Zero-Shot Lip Sync
Tavus, a leading AI video research company backed by Sequoia, today announced the release of Hummingbird-0 into research preview, a zero-shot lip sync model created from components of its flagship Phoenix-3 replica model. Now, with just one video and any voice track, developers can bring faces to life—instantly—without model training or manual tweaking. This step up in quality opens the door to high-quality user-generated content, foreign language dubbing for localization, and personalized videos created at scale, in minutes.
Tavus Introduces Phoenix-3, Raven-0, and Sparrow-0: A Family of Models Powering the First AI Agents That Truly See, Hear, and Engage in Real-Time, Face-to-Face Interaction
Tavus, a leading AI research company backed by Sequoia, announced today the launch of three groundbreaking AI models that set new industry benchmarks for human-AI interaction. With Phoenix-3 (the first full-face AI rendering model), Raven-0 (the first AI perception model that sees and reasons like a human), and Sparrow-0 (a state-of-the-art conversational turn-taking model), Tavus redefines AI-human interaction by delivering the building blocks for hyper-realistic, capable, and emotionally-aware video agents.
AI Santa Is Here – and He Knows If You’ve Been Naughty or Nice
Tavus, a leading generative AI video research company backed by Sequoia and Y Combinator, today announced that it created the first fully AI replica of Santa Claus so that the man in the red suit can leverage the latest tech to engage with millions of people all over the world. Through Tavus’ technology, a hyper-realistic AI Santa can see, talk (in 30 languages!), and respond to believers and bah-humbugs alike, interacting in real-time through video. It’s like having your own private holiday Zoom with Santa — and you can experience it firsthand through the Tavus AI Santa Demo.
Tavus Adds Top Talent as it Humanizes AI and Enables New Video Interactions
Tavus, a leading generative AI video research company, today announced the expansion of its executive team. Effie Goenawan, Head of Product, and Julia Szatar, Head of Marketing, have joined the company in pivotal roles as Tavus aggressively scales to meet the opportunity for its latest advancement, Conversational Video Interface (CVI).
Tavus Humanizes AI With Introduction of World’s Fastest Digital Twin Solution for Real-time Video Conversations
Tavus, a leading generative AI video research company, today announced a transformative new product, Conversational Video Interface (CVI). Extending the Tavus platform, CVI now gives developers the world’s first complete set of building blocks required to create interactive visual experiences with digital twins that speak, see, and hear just like the humans they represent. An early tester of CVI, Delphi is now using Tavus to power its new Video Clone feature.
Generative AI Video Pioneer Tavus Raises $18 Million to Introduce the Future of Personalized Digital Engagement
Tavus, a leading generative AI video research company, today announced the beta launch of the Tavus Developer Platform. Now the company’s proprietary models will be accessible via APIs to product teams looking to leverage AI to build novel engagement experiences across sales, marketing, and online learning. The first available Replica API utilizes Tavus’ breakthrough Phoenix model, which powers digital replica and text-to-video generation capabilities; it gives end-users the ability to rapidly create authentic videos of themselves on any topic, with only a script and no recording or studio production.
