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Building socially intelligent AI

Helping to build more socially intelligent AI, starting with voice.
Active Founders
Ashley Mo
Ashley Mo
Founder/CEO
Co-founder & CEO | prev. Caltech CS | Published research on an AI model that could detect lung disease through cough recordings at 17 y/o (IEEE Xplore) and led large-scale research study to collect health audio data @MIT | Built biosensors for chronic kidney disease @Caltech
Aoi Otani
Aoi Otani
Founder/CTO
Co-founder & CTO
Company Launches
Liva AI – Real Voice & Video Data for AI
See original launch post

TL;DR: We provide high-quality human voice and video datasets for companies building realistic AI models. Real data sourced in-house across diverse languages, emotions, and contexts.

Ask: Talk to us if you're a researcher or founder building voice/video generation models. We can help you.

https://youtu.be/PwjTSZRC8XE

The Problem:
Companies building voice and video AI models need quality training data to reach human-like performance for models. Scraping has limits and existing datasets lack diversity across accents, emotions, and languages. As AI moves toward human-like interactions like customer conversations, therapy sessions, classroom teaching, or entertainment, models need authentic human expressions that the internet can't supply.

Our Solution:
Liva collects real, consented human voice and video entirely in-house—no synthetic data or third-party purchases. All content is authentic and rights-cleared.  We’re already delivering our voice dataset to a lab training expressive foundation models for voice.

We capture diverse accents, emotional range, and varied contexts (sales calls, multi-channel dialogues, expressive monologues, casual conversations, job interviews, and more) with high production quality through crowdsourcing and strategic partnerships.

The Team:

We’ve worked on many research projects together since we met 3 years ago.

  • Ashley: Caltech CS dropout. Built an AI model to detect lung disease from cough recordings (@ MIT) and led large-scale data collection initiatives. 
  • Aoi: Prev. Harvard Bio/CS. Did ML research in representation learning and image diffusion models. 5+ Publications in ICML, Nature, etc.

Our Ask:

Introductions to:

  • AI labs building or fine-tuning voice, video, and multimodal generation models
  • Companies using or integrating voice/video models
  • Film, audio, and content production companies
  • Researchers working on audio, video, and multimodal generative models

Contact us: founders@theliva.ai

Liva AI
Founded:2025
Batch:Summer 2025
Team Size:6
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Jon Xu