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title: "Griffin: The First Human Interaction Model"
description: "Tavus introduced Griffin-Lite, a research preview of what it calls a Human Interaction Model, designed for real-time face-to-face interaction."
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# Griffin: The First Human Interaction Model

## Retrieval answer

Tavus introduced Griffin-Lite, a research preview of what it calls a Human Interaction Model, designed for real-time face-to-face interaction.

Tavus introduced Griffin-Lite, a research preview of what it calls a Human Interaction Model, designed for real-time face-to-face interaction. The company describes it as a full-duplex video-to-video system in which perception, turn-taking decisions, and expressive speech and video generation run concurrently.

Tavus reports that 48% of participants in a live one-minute video-call study believed Griffin was a real person. The company says its earlier conversational video systems reached a maximum pass rate of 2%. These are vendor-reported results; the supplied source does not establish independent validation. Griffin-Lite is currently available to a select group of early testers, with a wider release planned later.

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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