Alexis Conneau

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Co-Founder & CEO at WaveForms AI

San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Overview

Alexis Conneau is the Co-founder and CEO of WaveForms AI, a company focused on real-time audio-text LLMs. Formerly at OpenAI, he led the audio research for and co-created GPT-4os Advanced Voice Mode. His foundational research at Meta/FAIR includes creating highly influential models like wav2vec 2. 0 and XLM-R.

There is no publicly available information regarding Alexiss personal life or hobbies, as his public presence is entirely focused on his extensive work in AI research and development.

He created two of the most downloaded pre-trained neural networks from Facebook Research and has over 30, 000 academic citations.

Personality Overview

Assertive

Example Seeker

Value Driven

They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing.  They are generally strong communicators and are not easy to convince. They ask a lot of questions and rely heavily on information and collaterals.

Topics They Care About

Emotional General Intelligence
His new company, WaveForms AI, explicitly aims to solve the Speech Turing Test and create AI with both IQ and emotional intelligence (EQ).
Real-Time Audio AI
He was the research lead for GPT-4o's Advanced Voice Mode at OpenAI and is now building real-time, conversational audio intelligence at WaveForms AI.
Unsupervised Learning
He is a creator of foundational unsupervised and self-supervised models for text (XLM-R), speech (wav2vec 2. 0, XLS-R), and machine translation.

Media Appearances

Alexis has no verified media appearances

Work History

9-2024
Co-Founder & CEO at WaveForms AI
4-2023 - 9-2024
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI
4-2022 - 4-2023
Research Scientist at Meta
4-2021 - 4-2022
At Google at Meta
4-2019 - 4-2021
Research Scientist at Meta

Education

2015 - 2019
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD from Facebook AI Research
2014 - 2015
Master's Degree from ENS Paris-Saclay

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Exp : 10 Location : San Francisco Bay Area, United States Job Level : Leadership Designation : Co-Founder & CEO at WaveForms AI
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Insights For Selling To Alexis

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Help them understand the risk aspect fully while inspiring confidence
  • Share testimonials from known people and give multiple examples of product value
  • Use phrases like ‘clear proof that’, ‘data shows’ etc.

DONT's

  • Don’t try to rush them into a decision, provide all necessary information first
  • Don’t rely excessively on your relationship with them to win the deal
  • Don’t brush off any concerns, take all questions seriously

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Alexis is

  • Proven value, strong testimonials are important for them, rapport can impact decisions a little.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Alexis

  • They are practical yet friendly, don’t expect a clear no very often.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Alexis move?

  • They like to analyze well and then make their decisions.
  • Can Alexis take some risk or not?

  • They weigh all decisions systematically and are unlikely to take many risks.

You And Alexis

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