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;

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