Seattle startup Nuance raises $50M Series A from Lightspeed, Accel, Nvidia to build emotionally intelligent AI models for face-to-face conversations; three ex-Apple researchers aim to eliminate chatbot lag and awkwardness with unified audio-video system.

3 ex-Apple researchers raised $50M to build AI models with more EQ

3 ex-Apple researchers want to make AI less awkward. Lightspeed, Accel, and Nvidia are giving them $50 million to do it. Nuance cofounders all worked at Apple before launching their startup. Nuance A startup that's trying to make AI models better conversationalists with more emotional intelligence has just raised $50 million.Seattle-based Nuance says it wants to build models that can hold face-to-face conversations without the lag and awkwardness of existing chatbots.Fangchang Ma, Nuance's cofou...