AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B
The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.
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ElevenLabs’ CEO on margins, IPO timing, and telling customers they’re talking to a bot
ElevenLabs powers the AI voice on the other end of a lot of customer service calls, and its CEO told me this week that businesses should probably tell you that — at least until getting a machine is what everyone expects anyway.
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Mistral releases a new open source model for speech generation
The model, which lets enterprises build voice agents for sales and customer engagement, puts Mistral in direct competition with the likes of ElevenLabs, Deepgram, and OpenAI.
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ElevenLabs releases a new AI-powered music-generation app
ElevenMusic lets users create and remix songs using text prompts. The new app suggests ElevenLabs wants to be more than just a voice model company.
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ElevenLabs lists BlackRock, Jamie Foxx, and Eva Longoria as new investors
ElevenLabs reveals new investors, hits $500M ARR, and expands enterprise footprint as voice AI becomes a critical interface.
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Spotify launches an ElevenLabs-powered audiobook creation tool
The AI-powered audiobook generation won’t bind authors to an exclusive contract, meaning they are free to publish their generated audiobooks anywhere.
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ElevenLabs’ new music-generation model can switch genres mid-track
ElevenLabs’ new model will let users regenerate a section of a song without affecting the rest of the track.
