## 2025/01/01

**We’re thrilled that cats 🐱 are now speaking and singing across the internet!**  🎶

In this update, we’ve improved the [Animals model](https://huggingface.co/KwaiVGI/LivePortrait/tree/main/liveportrait_animals/base_models_v1.1) with more data. While you might notice only a slight improvement for cats (if at all 😼), dogs have gotten a slightly better upgrade. For example, the model is now better at recognizing their mouths instead of mistaking them for noses. 🐶

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    <td style="text-align: center"><b>Before vs. After (v1.1)</b></td>
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The new version (v1.1) Animals Model has been updated on [HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/KwaiVGI/LivePortrait/tree/main/liveportrait_animals/base_models_v1.1). The new version is enabled by default.

> [!IMPORTANT]
> Note: Make sure to update your weights to use the new version.

If you prefer to use the original version, simply modify the configuration in [inference_config.py](../../../src/config/inference_config.py#L29)
```python
version_animals = "" # old version
# version_animals = "_v1.1" # new (v1.1) version
```