RAVATAR

28/10/2026

How do you check if an AI avatar is really sovereign?
Ask the vendor which level it would claim on the European Commission’s own 0–4 scale.

There’s still no EU certificate that says an AI system is sovereign. But there is now a published scale, and buyers can point to it.

• 𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗟-𝟬 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗟-𝟰: the Commission’s scale. In April 2026 it used SEAL-2 as the minimum to screen bidders for its sovereign cloud contracts.
• 𝗕𝗦𝗜 𝗖𝟯𝗔: Germany’s federal cyber security office turned that scale into voluntary, testable criteria, including a yearly disconnection test.
• 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗰𝘁: a proposal that would put four assurance levels into law. Still a proposal.

For an AI avatar, these criteria grade the infrastructure it runs on. So ask any vendor, us included, for a level and a criterion number, not an adjective. Which level would you claim, and what stops you claiming the next one up?

Part 2 of our series on sovereign AI avatars. Link in the first comment 👇

26/10/2026

We’re in Cyprus Mail! 🗞️

Our CEO Ruslan Synytsky talks with Souzana Psara for Cyprus Mail’s Cyprus 4.0 Startups & Innovation edition about AI avatars, healthcare, and building in Cyprus for clients around the world.

Thank you, Souzana and Cyprus Mail. Thank you also to the Ίδρυμα Έρευνας και Καινοτομίας/ Research and Innovation Foundation and to the Υπουργείο Ενέργειας, Εμπορίου και Βιομηχανίας and its Export Helpdesk for backing us.

Read the full interview in the comments 👇

22/10/2026

When a patient talks to an AI avatar in a hospital lobby, where does that conversation go? And who decides?

For hospitals, banks and public bodies, that’s what “sovereign AI” really comes down to: control. Not a label, and not just a data center address.

The word gets used everywhere, but EU law doesn’t define it. So we wrote a working definition, a sovereign AI avatar passes three tests at once:

• 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹: the provider sits within the institution’s own legal order
• 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆: personal data stays inside the institution’s network or a jurisdiction it chose, enforced technically, not promised in a contract
• 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹: nobody outside can update it, reach into it, or shut it down without the institution acting

Avatars raise the bar further. They have a camera and a microphone, so how they handle a face or a voice decides which rules apply.

The guide includes six questions any institution can put to any AI vendor (us included), with every legal point sourced.

👉 Link in the first comment.

23/09/2026

Across Europe, healthcare is short on clinicians and long on repetitive work. A real portion of medical staff's day still goes to the same tasks: intake, verification, first-line questions, scheduling appointments, follow-ups. All of it necessary. All of it repeated day after day, patient after patient.

We put together a short concept scenario for an AI Patient Assistant designed to handle exactly that first layer. Available in the patient's language, at any hour, at their own pace.

The point isn't to replace clinicians. It's to give them back the hours currently spent on work that repeats itself.

The characters are fictional. The workload problem isn't.

17/09/2026

You can stand in front of a Charles Fazzino piece for 10 minutes and still miss half of it.

Four decades of hand-cut paper cityscapes, every layer packed with landmarks, jokes, and small details you only catch when someone points them out. Usually nobody does. So, at the Elliott Museum-Stuart in Florida, we put the artist in the room. 🎨

A life-sized AI Hologram of Charles Fazzino | Master of 3D PopArt, standing in a Holobox. Voice-cloned. Trained on his work and his own words.

Visitors ask about a building. A hidden figure. What he was thinking when he made it. And get answers in real-time, every day the Elliott Museum is open.

Read the full story 👉 https://ravatar.com/charles-fazzino-ai-hologram

18/08/2026

𝗚𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗲 sat down with our founder and CEO Ruslan Synytsky, on AI avatars, digital humans, and the next chapter of human-AI interaction.

A good read, and thank you Marianna Nicolaou and IMH for the feature. 👉
https://www.magloft.com/app/goldmagazine #/reader/532147/1997360

13/08/2026

𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀: 𝗔𝗜 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁

A hypothetical scenario for the GCC region. And one of the most common call any government service desk gets.

Someone applied. Weeks passed. Nothing came back. The caller just wants to know where things stand, and what happens next.

An Interactive AI Avatar can take it, answer in the caller's own language, read the real case status, and book the next step. The service quality of your best employee, delivered every single time.

No queue. No faceless chatbot. A real conversation instead.

And your team stops spending its day on the calls the avatar can handle.

Curious how this could work for your service desk? Let's talk. 👉 https://ravatar.com/contact-us/

12/08/2026

Today we're glad to share that the RAVATAR AI Avatar Platform is now part of the Intel® Edge AI Catalog, listed as a Verified Intel® AI Edge Application across Retail & Consumer, Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Education.

Here's what that means in practice. Our real-time Interactive AI Avatars run on Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 2 processors, optimized with the OpenVINO™ Toolkit, installed at the site itself and driving a kiosk, a Holobox, or a screen the visitor is standing in front of.

Proud to be part of the Intel® Partner Alliance Edge AI initiative.

Big thanks to Intel Devs. On to the next chapter. 🤝

👉 Intel® Edge AI Catalog listing: https://builders.intel.com/ecosystem-engagement/solution-hub/edge-ai-catalog/partner-spotlight/ravatar-ai-avatar-platform-260

📄 Read the solution brief, 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀: https://builders.intel.com/solutionslibrary/lifelike-ai-avatars-delivering-immersive-experiences

22/07/2026

Some good news to share: 𝗙𝟲𝗦 𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗔𝗩𝗔𝗧𝗔𝗥 𝘁𝗵𝗲 #𝟰 𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 🚀

In one line: 𝗥𝗔𝗩𝗔𝗧𝗔𝗥 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 your 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀.

Real-time Interactive 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘀 and 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝘀 that act as the human interface layer, connecting customers and employees to the AI systems behind the business. 𝗔𝗻𝘆 𝗟𝗟𝗠, 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹, cloud or 𝗼𝗻-𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲.

Thanks to everyone building the human side of AI with us. On to the next one. 🚀

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16/07/2026

Hospitality runs on a feeling: someone's there to welcome you, answer the occasional question, keep the evening flowing. The hard part is holding onto that feeling as AI moves into guest experiences.
Pullman London St Pancras brought that idea to life.

At "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗪𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲," an invitation-only dinner about the future of food, guests were welcomed by a photorealistic 𝗔𝗜 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺, Anna, who co-hosted the futuristic evening and answered more than hundred questions in the moment.

Thanks to the Musion Events team, Pullman Hotels & Resorts, Pullman London St Pancras, Kitchen Theory, and Chef Jozef Youssef.

The full story here: https://ravatar.com/ai-hologram-event-host-pullman/