The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.
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.
AI-generated voices are becoming nearly impossible to identify. ElevenLabs is now embedding invisible watermarks into its audio so you’ll finally know when you’re listening to AI.
ElevenLabs’ new model will let users regenerate a section of a song without affecting rest of the track
Spotify is releasing new audiobook plans later this year
4. ElevenLabs reveals new investors, hits $500M ARR, and expands enterprise footprint as voice AI becomes a critical interface.
Hot on the heels of Google’s music AI launch, ElevenLabs drops ElevenMusic, a text-to-song iOS app that signals the company’s clear ambition to move well beyond voice cloning.
ElevenMusic lets users create and remix songs using text prompts
Mistral’s new speech model can run on a smartwatch or a smartphone.
AI startups like Clay and ElevenLabs are using early liquidity to keep their best talent.