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Technical writing on how Akapulu builds real-time conversational avatars: model architecture, latency, identity, and the engineering behind live face-to-face AI.

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Jun 14, 2026

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Introducing AKA-1: Akapulu's Flagship Real-Time Avatar Model

A streaming latent diffusion pipeline that turns LLM output into lifelike speech and full-face video at conversational speed.

William Bradford

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Introducing AKA-1: Akapulu's Flagship Real-Time Avatar Model

Akapulu Labs