Catnip.AI

Catnip.AI is an AI research company dedicated to real-time multimodal intelligence, tackling one of the hardest challenges in AI today: models that can engage with the world live, rather than just generating content after the fact.

The company builds advanced models capable of seeing, listening, speaking, and responding in one continuous loop. This closed-loop design is what makes live, real-time audio-visual interactions possible—no awkward pauses, no waiting for a turn.

Its signature released model, Cat-MaineCoon, serves as a real-time audio-visual social world model. It goes beyond basic content generation to actively participate in the audio-visual world, reacting to what it sees and hears as events unfold.