{"id":2693,"date":"2025-07-14T11:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/meta-acquires-voice-startup-play-ai\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T11:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:25:06","slug":"meta-acquires-voice-startup-play-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/meta-acquires-voice-startup-play-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta acquires voice startup Play AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta has acquired Play AI, a startup that uses AI to generate human-sounding voices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Meta spokesperson has confirmed the acquisition, according to Bloomberg, which also reports that an internal memo stated that the &ldquo;entire PlayAI team&rdquo; will be joining the company next week. (TechCrunch has also reached out to Meta for confirmation.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta&rsquo;s memo reportedly said that PlayAI&rsquo;s &ldquo;work 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.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company has been making big investments in AI, including aggressive recruiting from OpenAI and a deal with Scale AI that saw the company&rsquo;s 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 the two companies were in acquisition talks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Meta acquires voice startup Play AI<\/sub><\/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 &ldquo;entire PlayAI team&rdquo; will be joining the company next week. (TechCrunch has also reached out to Meta for confirmation.) Meta&rsquo;s memo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/meta-acquires-voice-startup-play-ai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Meta acquires voice startup Play AI&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}