{"id":180490,"date":"2025-07-13T21:32:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T21:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/meta-acquires-voice-startup-play-ai-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T21:32:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T21:32:25","slug":"meta-acquires-voice-startup-play-ai-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/meta-acquires-voice-startup-play-ai-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta acquires voice startup Play AI | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta has acquired <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/play.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\">Play AI<\/a>, a startup that uses AI to generate human-sounding voices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Meta spokesperson has confirmed the acquisition, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-11\/meta-acquires-voice-ai-startup-playai-continuing-to-add-talent?sref=10lNAhZ9\" target=\"_blank\">according to Bloomberg<\/a>, which also reports that an internal memo stated that the \u201centire PlayAI team\u201d will be joining the company next week. (TechCrunch has also reached out to Meta for confirmation.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta\u2019s memo reportedly said that PlayAI\u2019s \u201cwork in creating natural voices, along with a platform for easy voice creation, is a great match for our work and road map, across AI Characters, Meta AI, Wearables and audio content creation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company has been making big investments in AI, including <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/28\/meta-reportedly-hires-four-more-researchers-from-openai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aggressive recruiting from OpenAI<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/13\/scale-ai-confirms-significant-investment-from-meta-says-ceo-alexandr-wang-is-leaving\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a deal with Scale AI<\/a> that saw the company\u2019s CEO Alexandr Wang joining Meta to lead a new group focused on superintelligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Bloomberg had previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/27\/meta-in-talks-to-acquire-voice-cloning-startup-play-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the two companies were in acquisition talks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/13\/meta-acquires-voice-startup-play-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has acquired Play AI, a startup that uses AI to generate human-sounding voices. A Meta spokesperson has confirmed the acquisition, according to Bloomberg, which also reports that an internal memo stated that the \u201centire PlayAI team\u201d will be joining the company next week. (TechCrunch has also reached out to Meta for confirmation.) Meta\u2019s memo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-180490","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\/180490","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=180490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}