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PikaStream1.0 (real-time video chat for agents)

Pika · 2 April 2026

PikaStream1.0 gives AI agents a live face with 24 fps 480p speech-to-video on one H100 at about 1.5 s latency.

A 9B diffusion transformer distilled into a causal streaming student, plus FlashVAE, a Transformer VAE decoding at 441 fps on 1.1 GB. Trained with multi-reward RLHF for identity, lip-sync and motion; agents keep memory and can act during the call.

Date
Thursday, 2 April 2026
Lab
Pika
Kind
model
Access
closed API

Figures

MeasureValueMeasured by
End-to-end speech-to-video latency~1.5 s
24 fps, 480p, single H100
company

Pika's technical claims are self-reported.

Sources

  1. pika.art/blog/introducing-real-time-video-chat

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