Tavus' Griffin passes video Turing test: 48% of live viewers mistook it for a human
EXM7777 · x · 2026-10-02
Digital-human startup Tavus unveiled Griffin, billed as the first model to pass a video Turing test: 48% of people who talked to it live believed it was a real human, versus under 3% for previous systems. Griffin ranks #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video and is positioned as the first "Human Interaction Model" (HIM), signaling real-time video avatars are nearing indistinguishability from humans.
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