Lars Vågnes eu/acc

This has been a long time coming, interactive avatars just became viable.

@haugejostein Universalism is dying, old gods are reasserting themselves

I find it puzzling that there's no embrace of China in US mainstream media. Even the modestly China-friendly discourse quickly transitions into "... and here's how the US needs to respond to assert dominance." Are there no internationalists left in US mainstream media?

I'M FREE! no more 'quick data requests' from my colleagues i'll just respond - have you asked bilbo? we're LIVE on product hunt today!!

🚀 Integration with @simli_ai is LIVE! @simli_ai x VideoSDK. Bring your AI voice agents to life with hyper-realistic avatars. Lifelike. Interactive. Real-time ready. 🔗 Check it out: docs.videosdk.live/ai_agents/plug…

@willeastcott Looks sick

Introducing: ✨SplatTransform✨ A new, open source CLI tool for 3D Gaussian Splats: 📄 Supports .splat, .ksplat, .ply and SOGS 📊 CSV export for data science workflows 🔀 Merge multiple splats 🔄 Translate, rotate, scale splats 🧹 Filter Gaussians with powerful ops Links are 👇

Introducing Trinity-1, the first interactive gaussian avatar, available in preview via our API today. Priced at less than 1 cent per minute, we are making interactive avatars finally viable for real world use cases. Try our demo and create your own gaussian avatar.

@thecto @simli_ai Did not notice that until now 😂

@simli_ai Bro never blinks

@cumulo_autumn mega cracked, nicely done

🚀Introducing StreamDiT: Real-Time Streaming Text-to-Video Generation 🔥Our model enables real-time applications, e.g., streaming generation and interactive generation. Key Features: ✓Real-time Generation: 16 FPS on single GPU (H100) ✓High Resolution: 512p video generation ✓Streaming Capability: Continuous video generation without length limits ✓Interactive Applications: Support for real-time video editing and style transfer ✓Efficient Architecture: 4B parameter model with optimized inference 🌐 Project website: cumulo-autumn.github.io/StreamDiT/ 📝 arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2507.03745 🤗 Hugginge Face Page: huggingface.co/papers/2507.03…

Meanwhile in Europe 🪦

@casper_hansen_ Shear number of cracked engineers and researchers + 996 culture explains a lot

Why are there so many Chinese companies who seem to just be *good at everything*? Like Huawei, Xiaomi, Alibaba just as a few examples

@BerntBornich When AI butler?

x.com/1x_tech/status… Introducing Redwood—our breakthrough AI model that fuses locomotion and whole-body manipulation into a unified intelligence. For the first time, NEO moves, understands, and interacts seamlessly in complex human environments. Built to learn from real-world experiences, Redwood empowers NEO to adapt gracefully, turning failures into insights with hardware designed for compliance, safety, and resilience.

@gan_chuang So elegant

🚀 Introducing Articulate Anymesh – now open-sourced! An automated framework behind our Genesis simulator, capable of transforming any rigid 3D mesh into its articulated counterpart using an open-vocabulary manner! Given a 3D mesh, our framework uses VLMs + visual prompting to extract rich semantics — enabling part segmentation and functional joint construction automatically! 🔗 Code: github.com/UMass-Embodied… 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.02590 🌐 Project: articulateanymesh.github.io #EmbodiedAI #3D #OpenSource #VLM #MeshProcessing

@arnie_hacker Moar of this!

The future is being built in Europe. Zurich Robotics Hack🇨🇭

@yik8191 probably

@VagnesLars tbh we would be lucky to get to a tenth of that level anywhere now

Europe need to go mad conformity and fear of failure is pervasive. But potential is there, The mad scientist is a meme for a reason - let’s embrace it

@yik8191 Maybe not quite that mad

@VagnesLars let’s do it: youtu.be/UjJZ6uC1Bwk

@shaig @gdmndr

Nice videos from @imkylecampbell walking you through two building two fun @pipecat_ai agents. ➡️ A Voice AI phone agent with @twilio ➡️ An interactive video avatar with @simli_ai

Whoa, the CEO of @trydaily just shouted my videos out! Thanks @kwindla! Love the tech behind @pipecat_ai agents and glad others are finding my videos helpful. More to come! AI Agents = @pipecat_ai + @simli_ai / @twilio Videos: youtu.be/rQ-S0q8EZmM?si…

@gdmndr @a16z @simli @simli_ai ffs 😂

@VagnesLars @a16z @simli Cool to see @simli_ai on it 😄😄

We are fundamentally changing human computer interaction with realtime AI avatars, cool to see @a16z do make this overview with @simli on it.