Waveforms AI Makes Waves With $40 Million Funding

<p>WaveForms AI has raised &dollar;40 million in seed funding led by A16z&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>WaveForms is an Audio Large Language Models &lpar;LLMs&rpar; research &amp&semi; product company aiming to solve the Speech Turing Test and bring Emotional Intelligence to AI&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The company was founded by <a id&equals;"ember254" class&equals;"ember-view" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;linkedin&period;com&sol;in&sol;alexisconneau&sol;">Alexis Conneau<&sol;a>&comma; a world leading Audio and Text LLM researchers and co-creator of OpenAI’s GPT4-o Advanced Voice Mode neural networks&comma; along with <a id&equals;"ember255" class&equals;"ember-view" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;linkedin&period;com&sol;in&sol;coralie-lemaitre-9b85975b&sol;">Coralie Lemaitre<&sol;a>&comma; a distinguished leader in business and product strategy from Google&comma; who brings exceptional leadership and strategic vision&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

Editor

New Hubble Satellite Network Opens to Bluetooth Devices

SEATTLE — Hubble Network, which operates the world’s first satellite-powered Bluetooth network, has opened its satellite…

2 days

Rune Debuts Relic With $40 Million in New Funding

SAN FRANCISCO -- Rune has unveiled RELIC (Renewable Energy Linked Intelligent Compute), a modular compute…

2 days

Prime Minute Emerges From Stealth With $15 Million

PALO ALTO -- Prime Minute has emerged from stealth with $15 million in pre-seed funding…

4 days

Airbnb to Offer Groceries Via Instacart

Airbnb is partnering with Instacart to let guests order groceries for their stay across the…

4 days

California Adds 39,400 Jobs in August

SACRAMENTO — California added 39,400 nonfarm payroll jobs in August while the unemployment rate remained…

1 week

Insight Partners Leads $24 Million Series A in Kastle

SAN FRANCISCO -- Kastle, an AI workforce platform transforming consumer lending, has raised $24 million in…

1 week