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2026-07-21
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artificial-intelligence
LongCat-Video-Avatar 1.5 cuts inference to 8 steps — here's
Meituan's LongCat team released version 1.5 of its open-source talking-avatar generator LongCat-Video-Avatar, which replaces the Wav2Vec2 audio encoder with Whisper-Large-v3 and uses DMD2-based step d…