News on December 9th: According to Fortune, Alexis Conneau, former voice research director at OpenAI and head of ChatGPT's voice features, announced the founding of WaveForms, which has secured $40 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The company was co-founded with business strategy expert Coralie Lamaitre and focuses on the development of Emotion General Intelligence (EGI), aiming to create audio LLMs that can understand nuances in voice such as tone, pitch, and accent.