Dollyglot

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Character.AI with real time video avatars

Winter 2025Founded 20242 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

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Dollyglot is like Character.ai but with real time video avatars. Turn a photo and a voice into a real friend. Speak with Harry Potter about Hogwarts or brainstorm ideas with Elon Musk!

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Services

Dollyglot positions itself as building fully integrated AI companies from the ground up, embedding AI at the core of organizational design and operations. The company emphasizes autonomous, AI-native corporate functions and real-time AI-powered experiences like avatars within consumer platforms.

Dollyglot focuses on creating AI-native organizations and integrated AI solutions from inception, enabling entire business functions to run autonomously. It has developed real-time avatars integrated into a consumer platform and has Experience with AI agents to automate coding, customer support, marketing, and operations. The offerings appear to include open-source multilingual text-to-speech models and collaboration on foundational AI models, with a emphasis on building AI-native company architectures and autonomous business processes.

Who it’s for: Businesses seeking to build or transform into AI-native companies, including startups or scale-ups aiming for fully automated internal functions and AI-powered customer interaction

Features

AI-native company design from inception
Autonomous business functions via AI agents
Real-time AI avatars integrated into consumer platforms
Open-source multilingual text-to-speech models
Automation across coding, customer support, marketing, and operations
Foundational AI model collaboration with partners

YC W25 backing, mentions of investors and angels, media features, and active product/vision announcements

Founders · 2

Thomas MinassianFounder

CEO Dollyglot. Dollyglot is like Character.Ai but with real-time avatars. Turn a photo and a voice into a real friend. With Dollyglot, you could speak with Harry Potter about Hogwarts or brainstorm ideas with Elon Musk! Our team Built Parler-TTS Mini Multilingual, the world's first fully multilingual open-source text-to-speech model.

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Paul-Henri BiojoutFounder

CTO Dollyglot. Dollyglot is like Character.Ai but with real-time avatars. Turn a photo and a voice into a real friend. With Dollyglot, you could speak with Harry Potter about Hogwarts or brainstorm ideas with Elon Musk! Our team Built Parler-TTS Mini Multilingual, the world's first fully multilingual open-source text-to-speech model.

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Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Mar 2025

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Dollyglot is like Character.ai but with real-time video avatars.

Dollyglot offers AI-powered, real-time video avatars that transform a photo and voice into interactive AI friends, enabling conversations with characters like Harry Potter or The Rock. The launch presents a waitlist for early access and highlights its photo-to-real-time avatar capability alongside reasoning models.