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[AINews] Pi 1.0, Pi Durable, and AIE NYC

Latent Space recaps Pi 1.0 and Pi Durable plus Gemini 4 Argon, GPT-6.1 Sol, FLUX 3, and other AI launches.

Earendil’s Pi 1.0 adds native MCP and image-model support, deferred tool loading, and Anthropic cache warming, while Pi Durable ports the agent harness to TypeScript with checkpointed crash recovery. The roundup also covers Google’s Gemini 4 Argon, OpenAI’s efficiency-focused GPT-6.1 Sol, Black Forest Labs’ FLUX 3, and Upstage’s closed Solar Mini 4, reported at 35B total and 3B active parameters with a 1M-token context. Artificial Analysis prices GPT-6.1 Sol at $0.72 per Intelligence Index task versus $1.04 for GPT-6 Sol. Tavus introduced Griffin and Synthesia launched Sessions.

Latent Spaceupdated 15:00 UTC · 4h agofirst 06:40 UTC · 12h agoAI industry 17 sources

Nearly half of test subjects mistook Tavus' AI video avatar for a real person on a one-minute call

Tavus launched Griffin, a real-time conversational video model that 48% of test subjects mistook for a real human on one-minute calls.

Tavus introduced Griffin, billed as the first "Human Interaction Model" (HIM), processing speech, facial expressions, tone, gestures, and pauses while generating real-time video conversation. In Tavus testing, 48% of participants believed Griffin was a real person after a one-minute call, versus a 2% maximum for previous systems. An Nvidia test of perceived humanness scored Griffin 3.83 versus 3.92 for actual humans and 2.80 for the previous best AI. Griffin-Lite is available as a research preview, with a fuller release gated on addressing safety concerns; the San Francisco startup has raised about $64 million.

The DecoderOct 1, 18:03 UTC · 1d agoModel release

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[AINews] Pi 1.0, Pi Durable, and AIE NYC

Nearly half of test subjects mistook Tavus' AI video avatar for a real person on a one-minute call