{"id":129322,"date":"2025-08-08T14:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129322\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:59:15","slug":"meta-acquires-ai-audio-startup-waveforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129322\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta acquires AI audio startup WaveForms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta has acquired AI voice startup WaveForms for an undisclosed sum, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/meta-acquires-ai-audio-startup-waveforms\" target=\"_blank\">The Information reports<\/a>. It\u2019s the company\u2019s latest buy to strengthen its new AI unit, Superintelligence Labs, and Meta\u2019s second major AI audio acquisition in the last month after it <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/13\/meta-acquires-voice-startup-play-ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bought PlayAI<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WaveForms, founded just eight months ago, raised $40 million from Andreessen Horowitz in a round that valued the company at $160 million pre-money, per PitchBook data.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two of the startup\u2019s co-founders \u2013 former Meta and OpenAI researcher Alexis Conneau, and former Google advertising strategist Coralie Lemaitre \u2013 have reportedly joined Meta. While at OpenAI, Conneau co-created GPT4-o Advanced Voice Mode neural networks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TechCrunch has reached out to WaveForms to find out if its third co-founder and chief technologist, Kartikay Khandelwal, will also join Meta, as well as the outcome of the deal for the roughly 14 other staffers (per LinkedIn) at the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WaveForms appears to have taken down its own <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.waveforms.ai\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>, but the company\u2019s LinkedIn page describes its mission as solving the \u201cSpeech Turing Test,\u201d which tries to measure if a listener can distinguish between human and AI-generated speech. WaveForms was also developing \u201cEmotional General Intelligence,\u201d which focuses on understanding individual self-awareness and management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta has acquired AI voice startup WaveForms for an undisclosed sum, The Information reports. It\u2019s the company\u2019s latest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,78921,738,7798,340,158,67,132,68,78922],"class_list":{"0":"post-129322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-voice","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-mark-zuckerberg","12":"tag-meta","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-waveforms"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114993742666987873","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}