Generative artificial intelligence company Akool Inc. today announced the launch of Akool Live Camera, a new tool designed to generate high-quality, AI-driven video in real time.

The new tool, offered as part of Akool Live Suite, enables dynamic, photorealistic avatars that mirror a speaker’s voice, gestures and micro-expressions without the need for prerecording.

The new offering differs from generative AI video tools such as OpenAI’s Sora by focusing on live interactions. The tool delivers unscripted, responsive video generation ideal for live streams, virtual meetings and augmented reality gaming environments.

Akool is pitching Live Camera as a new category of digital communication: live AI video generation. Unlike prerecorded deepfakes or static overlays, it creates real-time, responsive avatars capable of adapting language, gestures and even micro-expressions based on environmental cues. Doing so allows professionals, educators and creators to communicate more naturally and dynamically during live events, virtual meetings and AR gaming sessions.

“Akool Live Camera is not just about rendering images,” said founder and Chief Executive Jiajun Lu. “It’s about creating adaptive digital presence in real time.”

The tool’s features include real-time multilingual translation, face swap and AI video translation, the latter offering communication across different languages and cultural contexts. The tool can also alleviate camera fatigue by enabling users to opt out of being on camera, instead using a photorealistic avatar that reacts to voice, tone and feedback.

Akool’s technology combines on-device 4D facial mapping, neural voice engines and cloud-based rendering backed by more than 4 trillion interaction points. The integration allows avatars to deliver nuanced and context-sensitive performance that adapts to shifts in expression and tone.

“Akool Live Camera redefines not just communication, but who gets to represent whom, and under what terms,” added Lu. “It challenges assumptions about trust, identity and presence in a digitally mediated world. Real-time avatars aren’t a future promise — they’re a present reality.”

Akool is a venture capital-backed startup that has raised one round of $40 million, according to Tracxn. Investors in the company include G2C Venture Partners, Incubate Fund US, True Blue Partners, TSV Capital (Los Altos) and Endless Frontier Labs.

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