ElevenLabs has made a name for itself building realistic AI voices.
What started as two Polish engineers annoyed by terrible movie dubbing has grown into a profitable company now valued at $6.6 billion, doubling from just nine months ago. The company recently announced a $100 million tender offer led by Sequoia and ICONIQ, with participation from a16z and others, as its tech powers everything from Fortnite characters to customer service bots and goes toe-to-toe with OpenAI to become the default voice of AI.
Today on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we’re bringing you a conversation with CEO Mati Staniszewski from this year’s Disrupt, where he made a surprising admission: he thinks voice models will be commoditized in just a couple of years. So what’s ElevenLabs’ plan when everyone else catches up?
Listen to the full episode to hear about:
- Why ElevenLabs is pivoting from voice models to building a conversational AI agent platform
- How the company is tackling deepfakes with watermarking, AI detection, and device authentication
- Why Staniszewski believes there will soon be more AI-generated content than human content
- ElevenLabs’ push into music generation and partnerships to fuse audio with video models
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