Launch
Lighter, not bigger.
A lifelike AI avatar, drawn on the visitor’s own phone or laptop. One photo to create it, and no GPU on our side to draw it. How we got there, and what it lets you build.
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Research & updates
Engineering notes, product updates and research from Toda Labs.
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Off the Grid · Part 4
An answer can stay on screen. A live face has to keep moving.
Text, a recorded video and a live avatar can explain the same refund process. The difference is what has already been made, what must happen now, and where that work runs.
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Off the Grid · Part 3
8 questions to ask an AI avatar provider about pricing and capacity
Eight questions about capacity to put to any AI avatar provider before you sign, from what each conversation holds to where the GPUs come from, with our own answers.
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Off the Grid · Part 2
Headroom: What moving the face off the data centre adds up to
A live avatar's GPU time doesn't stay in the data centre. It turns up on the invoice, by the minute. We followed one support desk and one software product through a month of conversations.
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Off the Grid · Part 1
A live avatar that doesn’t hold a data-center GPU for the conversation
A live avatar asks a data centre for a GPU for every second of a conversation. What that holds in power, water and grid capacity, and what changes when the face renders on the device.
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Engineering note
Why MeshLite animates avatars in the browser
Why we chose browser animation, and what that means for longer conversations, repeated use and avatar-rendering costs.
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