Seattle’s Nuance Labs raises $50M to give AI models human expression and nuance

Nuance Labs co-founders, from left, Fangchang Ma, Edward Zhang, and Karren Yang. (YouTube screengrab) Nuance Labs , a Seattle-based artificial intelligence startup developing a foundational AI model designed to perceive and respond to real-time human expression, raised $50 million in Series A funding. Founded in early 2025 by former Apple PhD researchers Fangchang Ma , Edward Zhang , and Karren Yang , the research lab is developing a single “full-duplex” foundation model designed to process and