Conneau spends a good chunk of time thinking about how to avoid the dystopia shown in that movie, he told TechCrunch in an interview. 'Her' was a science fiction film about a world where people develop intimate relationships with AI systems, instead of other humans. 'The movie is a dystopia, right' It's not a future we want,' said Conneau. 'We want to bring that technology ' which now exists and will exist ' and we want to bring it for good. We want to do precisely the opposite of what the company in that movie does.' Building the tech, minus the dystopia that comes with it, seems like a contradiction. But Conneau intends to build it anyway, and he's convinced his new AI startup will help people 'feel the AGI' with their ears. On Monday, Conneau launched WaveForms AI, a new audio LLM company training its own foundation models. It's aiming to release AI audio products in 2025 that compete with offerings from OpenAI and Google. The startup raised $40 million in seed funding, it...
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