What's new

persona-2.0-live, the world's most expressive, controllable avatar model, is now in preview.

• Word-level control over avatar emotion in live conversation
• Industry leading realism
• 1000s of concurrent connections; $0.06 per minute

Try it on our home page — talk to it and watch each tag light up as the face changes.

persona-1.5-live has graduated from early access and is now generally available to everyone. Create an avatar with it and embed it in a website in minutes, or drive it through our API with your own agent stack.

persona-1.5-live, a 200M parameter model that sets a new standard for realism and efficiency, is now in early access.

• ~180 ms from audio in to video out; typical turns land around 500 ms end to end
• Emotion as an explicit conditioning signal, steerable mid-conversation
• $0.06 per minute, with one GPU serving many concurrent streams

Read the research post.

persona-1-live, a real-time streaming variant of persona-1, is now in early access — capable of holding dynamic, human-feeling conversations with low latency.

• Next-token prediction scheme optimized for interactive video generation
• No loss in persona-1's speed, expressive fidelity, or cost
• Pricing comparable to persona-1: just a few cents per minute

Read the research post.

persona-1, our expressive, faster-than-realtime talking head model, is now in early access.

• ~2x real time on last-gen consumer hardware (RTX 4090), ~4x on L40S
• Up to eight live streams in parallel on a single low-cost enterprise GPU
• A few cents per minute — ~1/2 the cost of the cheapest competing models

Read the research post.