Meta Turns Any Image Into a Live Avatar

🔥 What happened Meta unveiled Muse Realtime Avatar: a system that turns a single photo into a talking, gesturing live avatar in real time, synced to speech. 💡 Why it matters Distillation cuts inference from 120 to 2 model evaluations per chunk — a 60x reduction. On one GB200, it runs 12 concurrent sessions at 870 ms latency and 25 fps. ⚡ Our take Meta isn't building a chatbot here, it's building a presence machine. Anyone still selling text-only avatars in 2026 is selling fax machines.