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howdy, it’s Barsee again.
happy friday, AI family, and welcome back to AI Valley.
here are the biggest things worth knowing today:
Tavus unveils Griffin AI that fooled 48% in real-time video test
SoftBank now owns ~13% of OpenAI
Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources
Let’s dive into the Valley of AI…
DIIO
Courtesy: Diio
Most AI tools can capture what was said. diio understands what the conversation was trying to accomplish.
diio analyzes customer interactions across meetings, calls, WhatsApp, and other channels, combining the content of the conversation with its context, objective, and your team’s own playbooks.
That lets its AI go beyond summaries. It can identify customer needs, objections, commitments, risks, next steps, and signals that indicate whether an interaction is progressing toward its goal.
The result is a continuously growing intelligence layer built from real conversations — not just notes or structured fields.
Teams can use that intelligence to understand customers, prioritize what needs attention, improve how they execute, and act on signals hidden across thousands of interactions.
diio turns conversations into context AI can understand and context into better decisions.
*This is sponsored
THROUGH THE VALLEY
Tavus built an AI that fooled 48% of people on video calls - its new Griffin model can see, hear, talk and react simultaneously during live video calls. Unlike most existing AI video models that take turns speaking, Griffin can watch and listen while it talks. It can nod mid-sentence, handle interruptions, change its facial expressions and even talk about things it sees on your screen.
The result is incredibly convincing. In a study Tavus conducted with 54 people, 48% thought Griffin-Lite was a real human after a one-minute blind video call. Its previous model managed just 2.4%. Griffin also topped NVIDIA's VideoFDB benchmark, scoring 3.83/5 on NVIDIA’s video full-duplex benchmark, compared to 3.92/5 for a real human (that gap is way too small).
While that video call study had a small number of participants and was conducted by Tavaus, the demos are incredibly convincing and make for a grim future for video calls.
As Emad Mostaque put it, "remote work is cooked". That might be premature, but imagine getting on a video call with a job candidate, coworker, or someone claiming to be a family member and having no idea whether they're real.
Griffin-Lite is limited to trusted testers for now while Tavus works on safety and disclosure features before a wider release.
The technology is impressive. The potential for scams is equally impressive, unfortunately (good luck trusting video calls in a few years).
TRENDING TOOLS
FLUX 3 Image - make precise multi-turn edits without changing any other pixel
Griffin - world’s first Human Interaction Model (HIM), a new class of model designed to understand and generate face-to-face real-time human interaction
ChatGPT - adds virtual try-on for shopping, Favorites to save products
Opendots - self-hostable, always-on AI coworkers that work with any agent harness
Hyperknow AI - AI professor that turns any learning goal into a 1-on-1, interactive and systematic course
Ideogram 4.5 - company's most precise edit model
Capy Desktop - best way to orchestrate coding agents across all your devices
WHAT I'M CONSUMING
SoftBank has officially wired its final $10 billion into OpenAI. SoftBank now owns ~13% of OpenAI
Anthropic could begin IPO marketing the week of Nov. 9, start trading before Thanksgiving
THE VALLEY GEMS
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