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Realtime-Venus

Available as managed deployment LLMs inclusionAI Omni (any→any) 1 variants 0 dl/mo

Realtime-Venus is an open-weight language model from inclusionAI. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

Released byinclusionAI
TypeLanguage models
TaskOmni (any→any)
Runs withtransformers
Released2026-09-16
Popularity0 downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What Realtime-Venus is

1. 🧭 Overview

This repository hosts two checkpoints of the Realtime-Venus system:

  • Realtime-Venus-Omni (Realtime-Venus-Omni/): the 9B audio-visual interaction model. It continuously watches and listens, decides whether and when to respond, and generates text and speech on a shared causal timeline. Adapted from MiniCPM-o 4.5, it supports proactive interaction, semantic interruption handling, and training-free long-video memory.
  • Realtime-Venus-Audio (Realtime-Venus-Audio/): the audio-focused checkpoint on the same streaming backbone, for audio understanding and audio-driven conversation with text or speech output.

Both directories contain model weights and custom Hugging Face Transformers code. The asynchronous Realtime-Venus-Harness and its external tool integrations live in the GitHub repository.

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2. ✨ Highlights

  • Native full-duplex conversation: keeps perceiving while speaking and distinguishes backchannels, interruptions, corrections, and redirections.
  • Omni-Proactive interaction: continuously processes temporally aligned video and audio, and initiates a response when an event warrants it — without waiting for a user prompt.
  • Delegation: emits in-stream `` requests on the shared causal timeline and consumes asynchronous backend results the same way, so external tasks never block the ongoing conversation. (Executing requests requires the Realtime-Venus-Harness runtime, available in the GitHub repository.)
  • Training-free long-video Memory: archives visually informative moments, retrieves query-relevant and non-redundant evidence, and reassembles the corresponding audio-visual context — no additional training required.
  • Text and speech output: generates response text together with native speech through the bundled Token2wav resources and a reference voice.

3. 📋 Model Details

ItemRealtime-Venus-OmniRealtime-Venus-Audio
Parameters9B9B
Base architectureMiniCPM-o 4.5 / Omni-FlowMiniCPM-o 4.5 / Omni-Flow
Visual encoderSigLIP2not used at inference
Audio encoderWhisper-MediumWhisper-Medium
Language backboneQwen3-8BQwen3-8B
Speech generationDiscrete S3 speech tokens with a streaming flow-matching decodersame decoder, enabled in full-duplex mode
InputsVideo/images, audio, and textAudio and text
OutputsText and optional speech waveformText and speech waveform
Context length40,960 tokens40,960 tokens
Weight dtypeBF16BF16

4. 📊 Evaluation

All values are reported in the Realtime-Venus technical report.

5. 🗂️ Repository Layout

.
├── Realtime-Venus-Omni/          # Audio-visual full-duplex checkpoint
│   ├── model-*.safetensors       # Sharded model weights
│   ├── config.json, *.py         # Model config and custom Transformers code
│   ├── realtime_venus_omni_memory.py  # Public Memory entry point
│   ├── memory_adapter/           # Chat and Duplex Memory runtime
│   ├── assets/                   # Reference voice, Token2wav, demo videos
│   └── requirements.txt
├── Realtime-Venus-Audio/         # Audio-focused checkpoint
│   ├── model-*.safetensors       # Sharded model weights
│   ├── config.json, *.py         # Model config and custom Transformers code
│   └── assets/                   # Reference voice, Token2wav, demo audio
├── assets/                   # Brand resources (logo)
├── README.md
├── README_zh.md
└── LICENSE

The examples below write generated media to output/. Use a new filename or a new output directory when repeating an experiment.

6. 🛠️ Installation

Requires Python 3.10, CUDA, and FFmpeg. Download the repository (the two checkpoints live in its sub-directories) and install the Python dependencies:

huggingface-cli download inclusionAI/Realtime-Venus --local-dir .
# or: modelscope download --model inclusionAI/Realtime-Venus --local_dir .

python -m pip install -r Realtime-Venus-Omni/requirements.txt

All example paths below are relative to the downloaded repository's root directory. The examples load the local Realtime-Venus-Omni/ and Realtime-Venus-Audio/ checkpoints through Hugging Face Transformers.

7. 🎙️ Realtime-Venus-Omni Usages

Runnable standalone versions of these examples live in the Omni cookbook on GitHub.

7.1 🧱 Model Initialization

The examples below share the following model initialization; run each example in a fresh Python process. Chat and Duplex automatically load the default reference voice.

from pathlib import Path

import torch
from transformers import AutoModel, set_seed

Path("output").mkdir(exist_ok=True)
set_seed(42)
print("Loading model ...")
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
    "./Realtime-Venus-Omni",  # or an absolute path to the sub-directory
    trust_remote_code=True,
    local_files_only=True,
    attn_implementation="sdpa",
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
)
model.eval().cuda()
print("Model loaded.")

7.2 🔊 Duplex Omni Mode

model = model.as_duplex() switches the model to full-duplex streaming: prepare() initializes the session, then each second of input is handled by one streaming_prefill() + streaming_generate() pair, and as_simplex() switches back to offline mode. Set MAX_NUM_FRAMES before importing minicpmo.utils, otherwise videos longer than 64 seconds are truncated to the default frame cap.

Subtitle font note: Duplex examples burn the response text into the output video through FFmpeg/libass, which resolves fonts via fontconfig. Rendering non-Latin responses (e.g. Chinese) requires a CJK-capable font on the system, otherwise those glyphs show up as empty boxes. On any Linux distribution,

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

How it works

How language models work

Your prompttext / messagesTransformerattention over tokensNext-token loopgenerate + streamResponsetext · tool callsA language model reads your tokens and predicts the next one, again and again, streaming the reply back.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys realtime-venus for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (realtime-venus below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"realtime-venus","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

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