Meta has acquired Play AI, a startup that makes use of AI to generate human-sounding voices.
A Meta spokesperson has confirmed the acquisition, in line with Bloomberg, which additionally experiences that an inside memo said that the “complete PlayAI staff” will probably be becoming a member of the corporate subsequent week. (TechCrunch has additionally reached out to Meta for affirmation.)
Meta’s memo reportedly mentioned that PlayAI’s “work in creating pure voices, together with a platform for simple voice creation, is a superb match for our work and street map, throughout AI Characters, Meta AI, Wearables and audio content material creation.”
The corporate has been making huge investments in AI, together with aggressive recruiting from OpenAI and a take care of Scale AI that noticed the corporate’s CEO Alexandr Wang becoming a member of Meta to guide a brand new group targeted on superintelligence.
The monetary phrases of the acquisition weren’t disclosed. Bloomberg had beforehand reported that the 2 corporations have been in acquisition talks.
