Garry Tan: This Realtime AI Video Agent Is Indistinguishable From a Human
garrytan · x · 2026-10-02
Y Combinator president Garry Tan reacted to Tavus's realtime generated agent Griffin, saying the woman in the demo video is fully generated in real time. Tavus founder Hassaan Raza says Griffin captures the nuances of human conversation—micro-expressions, posture shifts, turn-taking—and that he initially mistook it for a real video call.
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