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ElevenLabs has paid out $10 million to creators through its Voice Marketplace.
ElevenLabs has expanded its product offerings beyond voice synthesis to include voice agent orchestration and a fully licensed generative music model.
ElevenLabs has an internal policy that prohibits selling its models to competing foundational model companies.
ElevenLabs secured licensing agreements with music labels Merlin and Cobalt to use their music catalogs for training its generative music model.
ElevenLabs has grown to a company of 350 people.
The ElevenLabs Voice Marketplace has almost 10,000 voices available from its community of creators.
ElevenLabs is structured into approximately 20 independent product teams, each consisting of five to ten people.
At ElevenLabs, product teams are permitted to build their own solutions for a feature if the internal research team estimates a fundamental research-based solution will take longer than three months to develop.
ElevenLabs implemented a "no titles" policy approximately a year ago to foster a flatter organizational structure.
New product teams at ElevenLabs are given a six-month period to prove their value; if they fail to do so, the product is discontinued.
It took ElevenLabs 18 months to negotiate the licensing agreements with music labels Merlin and Cobalt.
Hippocratic AI uses ElevenLabs' technology to power conversational agents that handle inbound hospital calls for appointment scheduling and outbound patient reminders.