{"id":24867,"date":"2024-12-11T01:53:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T17:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=24867"},"modified":"2024-12-10T20:54:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T12:54:23","slug":"chatgpt-%e9%ab%98%e7%ba%a7%e8%af%ad%e9%9f%b3%e6%a8%a1%e5%bc%8f%e4%b8%bb%e5%88%9b%e8%87%aa%e7%ab%8b%e9%97%a8%e6%88%b7%ef%bc%9a%e6%96%b0%e5%85%ac%e5%8f%b8%e4%bc%b0%e5%80%bc%e8%be%be-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/24867.html","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT Advanced Speech Patterns Creator \"Goes His Own Way\": New Company Valued at $200 Million to Build Emotional AI Voice Interaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former OpenAI researcher Alexis Conneau's latest creation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/waveforms-ai\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >WaveForms AI<\/a>,<strong>Currently awarded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/a16z\" title=\"_other organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >a16z<\/a> $40 million seed round<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%84\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [financing]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Financing<\/a>The first is the Audio AI Interactive field.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24868\" title=\"e0960974j00soa3td003rd000v900g2p\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/e0960974j00soa3td003rd000v900g2p.jpg\" alt=\"e0960974j00soa3td003rd000v900g2p\" width=\"1125\" height=\"578\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alexis Conneau, the company's founder, has extensive voice AI experience having led the development of ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode at OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Team Vision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WaveForms AI Company's vision is to make AI voice interactions more natural and emotionally resonant, and hopes to enable Emotional General Intelligence (EGI), which allows AI systems to interpret and respond to emotional cues in real time, leading to more meaningful and engaging interactions.<\/p>\n<p>Conneau said the AI audio system, inspired in part by the movie \"Her,\" will allow more users to experience the benefits of AI without the negative effects of addictive and isolating experiences, and that the company will prioritize empathy and connection to build a more positive human-computer interaction experience.<\/p>\n<p>The company plans to release its first products in 2025, but no technology demonstrations have been made public and the company's website is limited to a description of its vision for audio intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>WaveForms AI has closed a $40 million (currently about RMB 291 million) seed round of funding, valuing the company at $200 million, led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Marc Andreessen, a well-known venture capitalist, showing strong interest in the project.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexis Conneau, a former OpenAI researcher, is the latest to launch WaveForms AI, which has received $40 million in seed funding from a16z, with a focus on audio AI interactions. The Team Alexis Conneau, founder of WaveForms AI, has extensive experience in voice AI, having led the development of ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode at OpenAI. Team Vision WaveForms AI's vision is to make AI voice interactions more natural and emotionally resonant, and to enable Emotional General Intelligence (EGI), which allows AI systems to interpret and respond to emotional cues in real-time.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[1363,5183,421],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-24867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-a16z","tag-waveforms-ai","tag-421"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24867"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=24867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}