Griffin by Tavus
Product Hunt Rohan Chaubey ● Covered by 2 sources
Tavus launched Griffin, a voice AI that sees and reacts in real time. In a one-minute call, 48% of people thought it was human.
Based on reporting by Product Hunt, Rohan Chaubey — read the original for the full story.
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Tavus is pitching Griffin as a human interaction model for face-to-face conversation, not just another chatbot with a microphone. The system is built to see, hear, and speak at the same time, and to react to pauses, facial expressions, gestures, and whatever is happening on camera.
That real-time angle is the whole story. Griffin isn’t waiting for a turn to speak in the old, stilted way. It’s meant to keep up with a live conversation as it unfolds, which is exactly where a lot of AI demos still fall apart.
Tavus says a live one-minute video call with Griffin fooled 48% of participants into thinking they were talking to a real person. That’s a sharp result, even if it comes from a very short test. Short enough, in fact, to make you wonder how it behaves once the novelty wears off.
There’s also Griffin-Lite, now in research preview for select early testers. It supports full-duplex video-to-video interaction and 720p generation, which suggests Tavus is already trying to turn the demo into something developers can actually poke at.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the part of AI that gets people to stop asking about prompts and start asking whether the thing on screen is real. That’s progress, and also the sort of progress that makes product teams grin and trust teams sigh. If a model can sell itself as human in a one-minute call, the bar for disclosure just got higher, whether the industry likes it or not.
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