Meta acquires AI audio startup WaveForms
Meta has acquired AI Voice Startup golf forms for an unknown sum, The information reports. It is the newest purchase of the company to strengthen its new AI unit, Superintelligence Labs and the second large AI Audio Audio Acquisition from Meta in the past month after it had bought Playai.
Golf forms, founded only eight months ago, collected $ 40 million from Andreessen Horowitz in a round that the company appreciated at $ 160 million pre-Money, per pitchbook data.
Two of the co-founders of the Startup-fored Meta and OpenAI researcher Alexis Connau and former Google advertisement strategist Coralie Lemaitre are reportedly become a member of Meta. While he was at OpenAi, Connau GPT4-O created advanced speech mode neural networks.
WAN has contacted wave shapes to find out or her main technologist, Kartikay Khandelwal, also becomes a member of Meta, as well as the outcome of the deal for the approximately 14 other staff employees (by LinkedIn) at the company.
Wave shapes seem to have removed its own websiteBut the LinkedIn page of the company describes his mission as solving the ‘Speech Turing test’, which tries to measure or make a listener a distinction between human and AI-generated speech. Golf forms also developed ’emotional general intelligence’, which focuses on understanding individual self -awareness and management.
Correction: An earlier version of this article has incorrectly stated the role of Khandelwal for wave shapes.
