How Tavus delivered human-grade conversational AI with edge retrieval on Qdrant Tavus is a human–computer research lab building CVI, the Conversational Video Interface . CVI presents a face-to-face AI that reads tone, gesture, and on-screen context in real time, allowing for humans to interface with powerful, functional AI like never before. The team’s north star was simple to say and hard to ship: conversations should feel natural.