ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered 2 KAIST releases since Oct 2025, most recently Avatar Forcing on Jan 8, 2026. Highlights include KORMo 10B, Avatar Forcing. 1 of them shipped with open weights. Every entry below has primary-source links and the episode segment where we covered it live.
KAIST's Avatar Forcing: real-time interactive talking heads
KAIST published Avatar Forcing, a framework for real-time interactive talking-head avatars with approximately 500ms latency. The paper targets responsive, live avatar interaction rather than offline video generation.
KAIST releases KORMo, a bilingual Korean/English 10B open model
KAIST published KORMo, a 10B parameter fully open bilingual model for Korean and English, with weights on Hugging Face and an accompanying paper. It continues the trend of strong national-language open models coming out of Korean labs.
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