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End-to-end model that listens, sees, thinks and responds on video in real time

A new end-to-end model has been developed that can listen, see, think, and respond to video in real time.

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Min Choi is a tech commentator and early AI adopter who frequently shares demos from frontier AI labs. The tweet refers to a multimodal AI system — likely a prototype from a lab like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, or a startup — that processes live video, audio, and text inputs simultaneously and generates spoken responses in real time. "End-to-end" means the model handles perception (seeing, hearing), reasoning ("thinking"), and speech generation as one unified neural network rather than stitching together separate modules. This matters because most current AI assistants process only text or voice, not live video; a model that "thinks" while watching a real-time scene moves closer to human-like situated interaction, with implications for robotics, augmented reality, and ambient computing.