inclusionAI ships Realtime-Venus, a 9B Apache-2.0 full-duplex omni model with speech output
Hugging Face / inclusionAI (via r/LocalLLaMA, 117 upvotes)·medium signal
inclusionAI published two 9B checkpoints on Hugging Face: Realtime-Venus-Omni, taking video, images, audio and text in and emitting text plus optional speech, and Realtime-Venus-Audio on the same streaming backbone. Both are Apache 2.0, with a technical report (arXiv 2609.13814) covering video and audio understanding plus full-duplex results measuring interruption handling and continuation under overlapping speech. A 9B permissively licensed model that handles barge-in is a meaningfully different build target from the usual cascade of VAD plus ASR plus LLM plus TTS.