For five weeks we would not say how our presenter’s talking footage is made. Here is the whole chain: LongCat for the body, MuseTalk for the mouth, Duix to clean up what that leaves, and MuseTalk again for the visemes. Why the order matters more than any single model.
LongCat animates a whole body, gestures, lean, face, mouth, from audio, locally, for free. Long takes in one job. It’s our pick for a full-body local host, with two honest caveats: a quiet background, and drift on very long takes.
Week of 13 July: GPT-5.6 lands everywhere, Shanghai AI Lab drops an Apache agent brain, the voice race goes full-duplex, LongCat posts absurd numbers, robots get free eyes, and Fable 5 dodges retirement again.
Everything from our first news episode in readable form: the mystery model that topped OpenRouter, Claude Fable 5’s return (and reprieve), GPT-5.6’s rollout, Suno opening its API, and our own lab report.