Tavus Griffin (Human Interaction Model)
Research preview; no public API id or pricing found. Benchmarks: Tavus's own study plus NVIDIA's VideoFDB leaderboard (Griffin-Lite).
- Input
- video, audio
- Output
- video, audio
- License
- proprietary
- Verified
- 2026-10-02
How to call it
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint / URL | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tavus (research preview) | — | www.tavus.io/griffin | — |
Notable capabilities (2)
- FIRST Full-duplex face-to-face video conversation: Video-to-video model that sees and hears the user while speaking, interrupts and takes interruptions, and reacts to gestures and objects in real time; Tavus calls it the first 'Human Interaction Model'. source
- 'Video Turing test' result (vendor study): 48% of 54 participants in 1-minute blind live calls judged it human (Tavus's earlier stack ≤2%); NVIDIA VideoFDB generation 3.83/5 vs human 3.92; median latency ~1.9 s. source
Timeline entry
- Tavus unveils Griffin, a real-time face-to-face video model it says is the first to pass a 'video Turing test' (48% thought it was human) ★★★
Tavus announced Griffin, a full-duplex video-to-video "Human Interaction Model" that watches and listens while it talks, can interrupt and be interrupted, and reacts to gestures and objects on camera. In Tavus's own blind study, 48% of 54 participants who had a one-minute live video call with it…