Nuance Labs

Talk to Emma, face to face

Emma is an AI you can see and speak with. She reacts as you're speaking, with a face, a voice and a personality of her own.

Meet Emma

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The Mission

We build AI that people can talk to face to face, creating new ways for us to express ourselves and connect with each other.

The Full-Duplex Engine

Emma is built on Nuplex 1.0, our full-duplex audiovisual foundation model. Nuplex lets Emma and our other personas listen, react and talk at the same time, like people do.

Visual reactions

Nods, smiles, follows along mid-sentence, and stops when you cut in

Nuanced timing

Speaks and listens in the natural rhythm of conversation

Emotional expression

Shows the right emotion through face and voice

Distinct personality

Keeps each persona consistently itself in face, voice and personality

Our Team

Built by PhDs from MIT, UW, Oxford, CMU, and Johns Hopkins—with experience from Apple, Meta, Amazon AGI, and Discord.

Fangchang Ma

Cofounder & CEO

PhD in Robotics/Machine Learning from MIT; previously an Engineering Manager at Apple.

Edward Zhang

Cofounder & CTO

PhD in Computer Graphics from the University of Washington; previously a Senior Research Scientist at Apple.

Karren Yang

Cofounder & Chief Scientist

PhD in Audio-visual synthesis from MIT; previously a Senior Research Scientist at Apple.

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Our Values

Do right by people.

Our commitment is to increase human well-being, and we believe AI that better understands people and communicates more naturally advances this goal.

Do right by people.

Don't disempower people.

The benefits of AI should be available regardless of technical fluency. We want to enable new forms of personal expression and open up the productive uses of AI to more people.

Don't disempower people.

Make AI more accessible.

The benefits of AI should be available regardless of technical fluency. We want to enable new forms of personal expression and open up the productive uses of AI to more people.

Make AI more accessible.

Don't exploit people.

We won't exploit emotional vulnerability or foster unhealthy dependency. We aim to replace mindless scrolling, not meaningful human commection.

Be honest.

Nuanced AI should earn the trust that more seamless communication helps build. We want our company and products to set the highest standards for transparency.

Don't deceive people.

It should always be clear when you're talking to an AI, and it shuoldn't lead you to believe it's a person. It's an interface.

Our Investors

Backed by $50M in Series A funding to advance Nuplex.

Talk to Emma, face to face

Talk to Emma, face to face