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never head of InWorld. Pretty impressive.

ooof. You saw the Chinese text. Yup, that's super annoying. We are trying to squash that hallucination. Thanks for the feedback! That's helpful!

Thank you! We are considering to release an open-source version of the model. Somebody will do it soon. Might as well be us. We are mostly concerned with the additional overhead of…

One thing that is interesting: LLMs pipelines have been highly optimize for speed (since speed is directly related to cost for companies). That is just not true for real-time DiTs.…

Good question! Software gets democratized so fast that I am sure others will implement similar approaches soon. And, to be clear, some of our "speed upgrades" are pieced together f…

it's a fair concern. but, we don't know r0fl. and we are not astroturfing. even I am surprised with how many opnely positive comments we are getting. it's not been our experience i…

Makes sense. The init should be about 10s. But, after that, it should be real time. TBH, this is probably a common confusion. So thanks for calling it out.

Thank you! Yes, right now we are using Qwen for the LLM. They also released a super fast TTS model that we have not tried yet, which is supposed to be very fast.

thanks for the feedback. that's helpful. Ya, some avatars have worse lip synch than others. It depends a little on how zoomed in you are. I am double checking now to make 100% sure…

And, just like that, Max Headroom is back: https://lemonslice.com/try/agent_ccb102bdfc1fcb30

1) yes on Max Headroom. we are on it. 2) it already is real time...?

Fix deployed! This is why it's good to launch on hacker news. thanks for the tip.

glad we found somebody who likes it as much as us! BTW, biggest thing we are working to improve is speed of the response. I think we can make that much faster.

curious what avatar you think is poor quality? Or, what you think is poor quality. i want to know :)

thanks! it just barley worked last year, but not much else. this year it's actually good. we got lucky: it's both new tech and turned out to be good quality.

Good catch! Working on a fix now.

Our text control is good, especially for emotions. For example, you can add the text prompt: "a person talking. they are angry", and agent will have an angry expression. You can al…

Good question. When using the API, you can bring any voice agent (or LLM). Our API takes in what the agent will say, and then streams back the video of the agent saying it. For the…

thank you! it's by far the thing I have worked on that I am most proud of.

Very cool! Thanks for sharing. I love your use-case of turning an AI coding agent into more of an AI employee. Will be interesting to see if users can connect better with the produ…

hey HN! one of the founders here. as of today, we are seeing informational avatars + roleplaying for training as the most common use cases. The roleplaying use-case was surprising …

We use modal ( https://modal.com/ ). They give us GPUs on-demand, which is critical for us so we are only paying for what we are using. Pricing is about $2/hr per GPU (as a baselin…

that's a good idea! Would be especially cool if the human is charismatic and does a good job driving the convo. Maybe we can try it out with a streamer.

Looked it up. Cool reference.