Nuance Labs raises $50M Series A to build real-time multimodal AI avatars, led by Lightspeed

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Nuance Labs raises $50M Series A to build real-time multimodal AI avatars, led by Lightspeed

Seattle startup Nuance Labs, founded by former Apple Vision Pro engineers, raised $50 million in a Series A led by Lightspeed to build a single end-to-end multimodal model that produces synchronized audio and visual AI avatar responses in real time. The firm aims to eliminate laggy, stuttering, and awkward nonverbal behavior in current avatars by ingesting audio and video together rather than chaining separate speech, language, and synthesis models.

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More: GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, TechBooky

GeekWire / Kurt Schlosser: Nuance Labs raises $50M Series A to build full‑duplex AI that processes and generates real‑time human cues
SiliconANGLE / Mike Wheatley: Nuance Labs raises $50M Series A led by Lightspeed to build human foundation model for smoother AI avatars
Business Insider / Shubhangi Goel: Nuance — founded by three ex-Apple researchers — raises $50M Series A to build audiovisual, emotionally intelligent AI avatars
TechBooky / Paul Balo: Nuance Labs Raises $50M Series A Led by Lightspeed to Build Less-Awkward Real-Time AI Avatars

Comments: Nnamdi Iregbulem, Ryan Snodgrass, Guru Chahal

Nnamdi Iregbulem We at Lightspeed are thrilled to double down and lead Nuance Labs’ $50M Series A raise. Over the past year, AI has become more human-like. Real-time AI products like chat and...

Ryan Snodgrass Congrats to Edward Zhang and Fangchang Ma and the entire Nuance Labs team for pioneering into the future of communication. Capturing and understanding all the subtle cues in...

Guru Chahal We at Lightspeed are thrilled to continue backing Nuance Labs as we lead their $50M Series A raise. At a time when most models were chasing IQ, Fangchang Ma and Edward Zhang...

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