AI Avatars IGNORE You?! I Tested the CRAZY New StreamEval Benchmark (RTX 4090)

StreamEval tests whether real-time AI avatars actually follow instructions. I ran the benchmark harness on my laptop, then pushed MuseTalk 1.5 on a rented RTX 4090 with four live instructions. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28402 | Code: https://github.com/StreamEval/StreamEval | Leaderboard: https://streameval.ai RunPod: https://get.runpod.io/pe48 Chapters: 0:00 Cold open 0:43 What StreamEval is 1:51 How it scores 2:34 How big and how fair 3:36 What 37 models showed 5:02 Can my laptop run it? 5:58 Choosing a RunPod GPU 7:01 Pushing MuseTalk with live instructions 9:33 Verdict Honest limits