{"id":177215,"date":"2025-06-27T10:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/meta-in-talks-to-acquire-voice-cloning-startup-play-ai-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T10:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:38:12","slug":"meta-in-talks-to-acquire-voice-cloning-startup-play-ai-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/meta-in-talks-to-acquire-voice-cloning-startup-play-ai-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta in talks to acquire voice cloning startup Play AI | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alongside bolstering its AI research talent pool, Meta seems to be keen to flesh out its consumer-facing AI features. The company is in discussions to acquire a voice cloning startup called Play AI, Bloomberg <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-06-26\/meta-in-talks-to-buy-ai-voice-startup-playai-in-push-for-talent\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>, citing anonymous sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tech giant aims to buy the startup\u2019s tech and bring on board some of its staff, the report said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Play AI lets anyone clone different kinds of voices that they can use for AI-powered use cases, such as customer service, per its website. The startup has raised $23.5 million in total, and its investors include 500 Startups, Kindred Ventures, Race Capital, 500 Global and Soma Capital, per Crunchbase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta currently lets creators on its social platforms <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/07\/30\/meta-is-rolling-out-its-ai-studio-in-the-u-s-for-creators-to-build-ai-chatbots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">build their own chatbots<\/a>, and has added <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/11\/meta-ai-gains-video-editing-capabilities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video editing capabilities to its Meta AI<\/a> chatbot. Acquiring a voice startup would let the company bake in audio features into its creative suite. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta and Play AI did not immediately return requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/27\/meta-in-talks-to-acquire-voice-cloning-startup-play-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alongside bolstering its AI research talent pool, Meta seems to be keen to flesh out its consumer-facing AI features. The company is in discussions to acquire a voice cloning startup called Play AI, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources. The tech giant aims to buy the startup\u2019s tech and bring on board some of its staff, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-177215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}