Keep pulling the thread on Mati Staniszewski.
ElevenLabs was co-founded in 2022 and has since reached a valuation of $11 billion.
Mati Staniszewski predicts that by 2025, a major advancement will be connecting real-time voice interaction with contextual understanding of user intent and past preferences.
Apple recently announced it will open up its ecosystem to third-party LLMs.
Mati Staniszewski predicts that conversational AI agents will pass the "voice Turing test," behaving indistinguishably from a human, within the next year.
ElevenLabs plans to release person-specific voice transcription, which fine-tunes the model on an individual's voice, in the coming months.
ElevenLabs offers an "expressive mode" for its voice agents that can detect a user's emotional state and generate a vocal response with a corresponding tone.
ElevenLabs collaborated with Neuralink to provide a synthesized voice for a patient, enabling them to speak.
ElevenLabs recently raised $500 million in a funding round at an $11 billion valuation.
ElevenLabs added $100 million in net new Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in the most recent quarter.
Based on recent growth, ElevenLabs' Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) is estimated to be in the $450 million range.
ElevenLabs' co-founder, Piotr, developed a new approach for creating voice models by applying ideas from transformer and diffusion models to the speech domain.
ElevenLabs initially developed its own speech-to-text model for internal use because existing commercial models were insufficient for their data annotation needs.