You Could Video Chat With an AI and Never Know It. 26 of 54 People Didn't
Tavus Griffin AI convinced 26 of 54 people on live video calls that they had talked to a real human. The firm is keeping the model away from customers for that exact reason. Tavus calls the model the first to pass the video Turing test. Its previous system, tested the same way, fooled 1 of 41 participants. Sponsored Sponsored What Let Griffin Talk Its Way Past 26 Strangers? Tavus co-founder and CEO Hassaan Raza argued that people communicate as much through expression, tone, and timing as through words. Machines, by his account, make users adapt with the right command, click, or prompt. His pitch is a computer that reads tone and expression the way another person would, and even looks like one. Follow us on X to get the latest news as it happens Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test. 48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate3%. It is #1 on NVIDIAs benchmark for full-duplex AI video. Its the first Human Interaction Model (HIM). pic.twitter.com/eb11XbC8Xr — Tavus (@tavus) October 1, 2026 Tavus contrasts Griffin with cascade systems, where speech recognition, a language model, and voice synthesis take turns. Such systems hold their reply









