{"id":7652,"date":"2025-07-13T22:34:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T22:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7652\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T22:34:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T22:34:02","slug":"meta-acquires-voice-startup-play-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7652\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta acquires voice startup Play AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the two companies were in acquisition talks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta has acquired Play AI, a startup that uses AI to generate human-sounding voices. A Meta spokesperson has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,1282,7832,74],"class_list":["post-7652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-meta","tag-play-ai","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}