@Anam_AI ran its new blind benchmark on a LiveKit pipeline, with the same speech recognition, LLM and voice for every provider, so the only thing that changed was the avatar. If you're building a voice agent with LiveKit Agents, you can give it a face in a few lines of code. Try it now: go.anam.ai/c41/partner-livek…

AI avatars have looked realistic for a while. The problem starts when you actually talk to them. Anam's new Cara-4.1 Express responds in just 1.2 secs, handles interruptions, and makes eye contact feel natural. This is getting surprisingly close to a real conversation.

AI avatars can look impressive in a demo. Then you start talking to them, and the awkward pauses, expressions, or lip sync give them away. That's what makes Cara-4.1 Express from @Anam__ai so interesting. 1.2s response time, better lip sync, and more natural reactions are aimed at making conversations feel less robotic. The real test isn't how an avatar looks in a still frame. It's how it feels in a conversation.

YOU COULD GET 25%+ MORE CONVERSIONS FROM YOUR AI SALES AGENT JUST BY GIVING IT A FACE. Cara-4.1 express from @Anam__AI is a real-time face builders can add to their agent: → 70% prefer it to voice-only → 57% higher retention → real-time conversations in 70+ languages this could literally lift conversion across every funnel. we're definitely testing it in ours.

Every AI avatar looks great for about 5 seconds. Then you actually talk to it. dead eyes, lips a little off, that weird pause before every reply. the whole thing falls apart. Anam just released Cara-4.1 Express and it’s the first one that looks like it’s trying to fix that part. Conversational AI went text, then voice, now video. We trust a face more than a text box, and adding one to a text or voice agent drives a 44% increase in engagement. What stands out to me: – 1.2 seconds response time, 33% faster than the next best competitor – you can interrupt it mid-sentence and it handles it like a real conversation – 73% of ratings positive vs 54% for Tavus – #1 overall in a blind benchmark with 60 raters and 960 conversations Free to start: anam.ai

the thing that makes an AI avatar feel real isn't just how it looks, it's how naturally it responds Anam’s new Cara-4.1 Express model has better expressions, smoother lip sync, and came out #1 again in another blind test against its competitors. I'm curious to see how developers use this for AI tutors and interactive assistants. it’s human nature, students pay more attention to a face #AnamPartner

3 years of building @Anam__AI, and @Caoimhe_anam and we haven’t killed each other yet :) Oct ‘23 we both quit our jobs to build the next interface for technology. The first few months were just the two of us trying to put together a deck, get a POC working, find our first customers and convince a few researchers and engineers to take a chance on us. By May ‘24 we had money in the bank and our first 3 hires. Since then: - #1 ranked real-time model, 3 releases in a row new models shipping every quarter - 60K+ users signed up to try, buy and build on Anam - XM+ monthly minutes in production over the last 4 weeks - 14x ARR in the last 13 months - a team of absolute superstars across GTM to research - backed by some of the best VCs around First pic is from hours of live testing our latest model in a dark room in the London office. Second is Caoimhe in my old apartment the night we got the very first POC working. V cool to look back on, but we’re just getting started

On the back of Eleven v4 being released, we paired @elevenlabs v4 with Cara-4 on @Anam__AI and got an avatar performing a dramatic speech from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Director notes handles the face (you cue anger, sadness etc as the speech turns) while v4 handles the voice, so they build together. Then mid-session we switched it to Portuguese and then Hindi. Same voice ID, no restart, and it just picks up the accent each time. Pretty cool to see. Director notes docs are here: anam.ai/docs/personas/direct…, and check out the video below.

A nice advantage of 1-shot avatars based off a single image--you can make edits real easy. Eg adding a logo takes ~1min

A cool customer story - @getdocketai built an AI avatar, powered by @Anam__ai straight into their webpage, getting rid of chat widgets and forms. They've seen 41% increase in agent engagement since launch. Sounds a bit obvious but people love to speak to a face and its showing that. Link to the full customer story is here: anam.ai/case-studies/docket-…, and check out their launch video below, its pretty good.

Ordering pizzas with Anam x GPT-Live