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Harvard Business School's $699 HBS Foundry bootcamp uses AI avatars of instructors to give entrepreneurs feedback during practice pitches. The avatars, created by HeyGen, are popular with students despite one reporter finding the digital double's frozen smile unsettling. The program blends AI-driven feedback with weekly live sessions to scale personalized instruction.
Google announced an update to Google Vids that lets users create custom digital avatars from a selfie and voice recording. The company also brought its multi-modal AI model Gemini Omni to the platform, enabling video creation from text prompts and reference images, along with step-by-step editing. The updates position Vids as a broader video creation tool within Google Workspace, competing with startups like HeyGen and Synthesia.