# Tavus **Entity class:** Company **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Synthetic humans **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Tavus develops real-time conversational video systems and human-interaction models designed to perceive and generate face-to-face behavior. ## Mechanism and significance The company presents Griffin as a unified full-duplex video-to-video model that listens, watches, speaks, and generates expressive motion concurrently. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Generative Humans, Continuity, and Presence|Generative Humans, Continuity, and Presence]] - **Primary fields:** [[Digital Human Twin]] · [[Machine Succession]] · [[Posthumous Avatar]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Griffin]] · [[Video Turing Test]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. - [Tavus](https://www.tavus.io/) — primary organizational or project source. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > The important test for an AI avatar is not whether its imagery and mimicry are impressive. The important test is whether it can accomplish something useful enough that the user no longer cares whether it is human. > **— Adapted from Salim Ismail**, *MOONSHOTS Live, October 2026* [[reminders/Digital Life/An AI Avatar Must Be Useful Enough That Its Humanity Does Not Matter by Salim Ismail|An AI Avatar Must Be Useful Enough That Its Humanity Does Not Matter by Salim Ismail]]