Eleven Labs has made a name for itself by building realistic AI voices.
What started with two Polish engineers struggling with bad movie dubbing has grown into a highly profitable company with a value of $6.6 billion, doubling from just nine months ago. The company recently announced a $100 million tender offer led by Sequoia and ICONIQ with participation from a16z and others. The company’s technology powers everything from Fortnite characters to customer service bots, and it’s taking on OpenAI to become the default voice for AI.
Today on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we bring you a conversation with CEO Mati Staniszewski from this year’s Disrupt. There he made a startling confession. He believes voice models will become commoditized in just a few years. So what are Eleven Lab’s plans when everyone else catches up?
Listen to the full episode to hear:
Why Eleven Labs is pivoting from voice models to building a conversational AI agent platform How the company is tackling deepfakes with watermarking, AI detection, and device authentication Why Staniszewski thinks there will soon be more AI-generated content than human content Why Eleven Labs is focused on partnerships that blend music generation with audio and video models
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