In the latest chapter of Meta’s AI purchase and hiring, Meta has acquired the AI Voice Cloning Startup Playi.
Meta confirmed the acquisition BloombergBut did not tell the value of the deal. Leaked according to an internal memorandum Bloomberg“The entire ply team,” About 35 peopleMeta will join this week. He will report to a former Google speech AI researcher Johank, who has recently joined the meta from another AI voice startup, called Essem AI.
The main product of Playai is a voice cloning tool that can produce human-ridiculous sounds. Startup is Participation Companies such as walgreens and salesforce to create a voice agent for businesses that are available to answer questions, handle transactions and schedule appointments.
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The ply’s “easy voice works in making a natural voice with a platform for building, is a great match for our work and road map, in AI characters, Meta AI, Wearbals and Audio Content Creation,” Meta wrote in leaked memo.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Meta Connect in September 2024. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Image
Meta is aggressively hiring and receiving AI talent in recent months. In June, the company made one of its biggest investments so far, $ 14.3 billion AI data training startup scale AI in exchange for 49% stake in startups and access to new talent.
The deal brought Alexandra Wang, former CEO of Scale AI, to Meta as its new Chief AI officer and the head of a new team focused on developing Superintending, or AI, which crosses human intelligence. Meta is paying top dollars to gather a group of about 50 experts, which will work to develop superintendents for a day, to bring it into meta products, including its AI Smart Glass and Chatbot. Scale AI evaluated more than double after investment, rising from $ 14 billion $ 29 billion,
Meta is also making AI researchers and engineers illegal for its new superintendent team with competitive compensation from Open, Google, and Anthropic, which can go up to nine figures. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, 41, announced last month that former Google Deepmind researchers Jack Rai and Payi Sun and former OpenAI Staff Trapit Bansal and Hongu Rain Superintendent would join the team.
Additionally, a new details were revealed last week that Meta was allegedly compensated by more than $ 200 million to the former Apple Engineer to join his superintending attempt – more than $ 74.6 million apple CEO Tim Cook made last year more than doubled.
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Meta stock was up More than 19% Year to year at the time of writing. The company’s market value is $ 1.81 trillion, making it Sixth greatest In the world by market capitalization.
In the latest chapter of Meta’s AI purchase and hiring, Meta has acquired the AI Voice Cloning Startup Playi.
Meta confirmed the acquisition BloombergBut did not tell the value of the deal. Leaked according to an internal memorandum Bloomberg“The entire ply team,” About 35 peopleMeta will join this week. He will report to a former Google speech AI researcher Johank, who has recently joined the meta from another AI voice startup, called Essem AI.
The main product of Playai is a voice cloning tool that can produce human-ridiculous sounds. Startup is Participation Companies such as walgreens and salesforce to create a voice agent for businesses that are available to answer questions, handle transactions and schedule appointments.
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