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

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