WEBTOON Entertainment announced on Monday a strategic partnership with Genies to introduce interactive, character-driven digital experiences, marking a new step in the evolution of webcomic ...

For two decades, the Avatar franchise has been defined by cycles that took audiences into imaginative landscapes and eras. Aang followed Roku, and Korra followed Aang. This year, a new Avatar emerges ...

AppDirect Inc., the cloud-based business commerce platform and marketplace provider, today announced it acquired Soul Machines Ltd., an artificial intelligence human-like avatar experience provider, ...

Google has given Gemini Live Avatars, letting businesses offer personified chat experiences to online customers. The feature is available exclusively to Enterprise users through Gemini 3.8 Live. Live ...

After obtaining an interactive avatar and training it to discuss venture fraud, I have mixed feelings about making AI clones of ourselves.

I'm almost embarrassed to admit that the first time I saw one of Meta's new holographic avatars today, during a WhatsApp call with a Meta rep I had just met a few minutes before, I didn't immediately ...

Last week Google launched Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Extended Thinking models, touting them as the company's most advanced live dialogue models yet. The idea, it said, was to give "developers and ...

Google launched Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar in Gemini Enterprise, introducing real-time, lip-synced video personas for business applications. The system features multi-modal visual processing, 97 ...

Google (GOOG) (GOOGL) on Thursday unveiled its new Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar artificial intelligence model, aimed at bringing a “real-time visual presence” to conversational AI. “By pairing ...

Google on September 24, 2026 introduced Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, a feature that adds near real-time generated video to the speech of its native live dialogue models, and made it generally ...