Our latest news, articles, and announcements

Interactive avatar experiment
Jan 19, 2026

Evaluating interactive avatars

Interactive avatars are virtual personas that interact with users in real time through voice, gestures, and visual animations. As interactive avatars become more widely deployed in high-stakes domains such as education, customer support, and healthca

LT
Lucas Theis
Founder
ZQ
Zihao Qi
Research intern
IG
Ivan Gerov
Senior software engineer
superc

December 13, 2025

Measuring the progress of learned image compression

We compared the results of the recent Challenge on Learned Image Compression with last year's results, and found no significant improvement in perceptual quality. Does this mean that progress has stalled? Let's take a closer look.

LT
TA
· 5 min read
Ducks in flight (Matthieu Rochette)

November 21, 2025

Simplifying perceptual quality evaluation

Today, we are excited to launch Mabyduck, a self-serve platform that makes it incredibly easy to perform subjective quality evaluation experiments.

LT
· 5 min read