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Liva AI

Summer 2025 · Active

Audio & Video Data

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Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2025

Team size: 2

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About

Speech and video models trained on internet data still lack realistic and domain-specific results. We solve this by collecting targeted training data for model labs. We hope to create a world where AI feels more human.

Founders

  • Ashley MoFounder

    Co-founder & CEO | Caltech CS dropout | Published research on an AI model that could detect lung disease through cough sounds at 17 y/o (IEEE Xplore) and led research study to collect hard-to-get patient audio data @MIT at 18 y/o | Built biosensors for chronic kidney disease @Caltech and another for iron deficiency (for fun!). I also like dance!

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  • Aoi OtaniFounder

    Co-founder & CTO | Harvard Computer Science & Biology | Published 5+ ML research papers (first at 17) including in ICML, Nature, and PNAS. Research on improving fine-tuning of image generation models to prevent forgetting and enable domain adaptation, protein fitness modeling, and image segmentation models

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