Boson AI introduces a 45B model that talks and renders a face

Boson AI, the Santa Clara company co-founded and led by Alex Smola, introduced Higgs Realtime Duplex on November 5th, 2026, describing it as its first full-duplex interactive omni model, built on a 45B front model. Boson AI says the model listens, watches and talks simultaneously while rendering a face, processes voice and video in 160 ms chunks, and calls tools or delegates harder questions to a larger backend model without pausing the conversation. Boson AI targets a cost of at most one-tenth of an hour of a person's time for an hour with the 45B front model.

Boson AI introduces a 45B model that talks and renders a face Alex Smola's Santa Clara company says Higgs Realtime Duplex processes voice and video in 160 ms chunks while handling tools and delegating harder questions. By RuntimeWire Staff https://runtimewire.com/author/runtimewire-staff · Published Primary source: Aligned News — AI Intelligence https://x.com/rdesh26/status/2118684296441442347 Why it matters Full-duplex interaction could let a voice agent listen while speaking, watch a screen, call tools and hand hard problems to a bigger backend model without dead air. Boson AI's target is for an hour with its 45B front model to cost at most one-tenth as much as an hour of a person's time. Boson AI, co-founded and led by Alex Smola https://x.com/smolix?ref=runtimewire , introduced Higgs Realtime Duplex https://www.boson.ai/blog/higgs-realtime-duplex?ref=runtimewire on November 5th, 2026, describing it as the next generation of Higgs Realtime and its first full-duplex interactive omni model. The model listens, watches and talks at the same time while rendering a face of its own, according to Boson AI. It also thinks, calls tools and delegates work to a larger model without pausing the conversation, Boson AI says.… When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission https://runtimewire.com/affiliate-monetization-standards . This doesn’t affect our editorial independence.