Nuance Labs raises $50M Series A for full-duplex audio-visual emotion AI
adityaag · x · 2026-09-15
Nuance Labs announced a $50M Series A led by Lightspeed, with Accel, SPC, NVIDIA and Define Ventures participating. The startup is building a single full-duplex audio-visual foundation model that sees, listens and responds in real time, aiming to capture the visual and emotional vocabulary of human conversation. A research preview waitlist is open.
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