Congratulations, team, and thank you for a magnificent gift to the world. I think this is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen on HN. Utterly amazing. I’m now feeling very bad that I have never cared about video cards because I just do back end/front end dev work on machines chosen solely for their lightness and portability.
If you just want to try it out, you could run it on a GPU cloud instance for 2-3$/h. They're also billed by the second, so you can turn it on only when you have meetings.
The video of him fooling someone into thinking Elon Musk had joined their Zoom call was quite funny. Unfortunately the voice was all wrong (sounded Russian) but the person was still fooled and surprised.
Most people have probably not heard much of Elon Musk's voice.
Maybe the voice will be resolved in a future PR ;)
And now I'm imagining pluggable, modular "avatar fonts". Who would you like to be today?
This "audio deepfake" analog suggests totally realistic imitation: