Meta has acquired WaveForms, an AI voice startup, to bolster its Superintelligence Labs unit. This acquisition follows another major AI audio buy of PlayAI. WaveForms, co-founded by Alexis Conneau and Coralie Lemaitre, has gained attention for its development of tools related to the Speech Turing Test and Emotional General Intelligence. Two co-founders are reportedly moving to Meta, while details about the status of other staff members remain unclear. WaveForms had raised significant funding from Andreessen Horowitz shortly after it was established.
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.
The company's LinkedIn page describes its mission as solving the "Speech Turing Test," which tries to measure if a listener can distinguish between human and AI-generated speech.
Two of the startup's co-founders - former Meta and OpenAI researcher Alexis Conneau, and former Google advertising strategist Coralie Lemaitre - have reportedly joined Meta.
WaveForms was also developing "Emotional General Intelligence," which focuses on understanding individual self-awareness and management.
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