From audiobooks and dubbing to gaming and avatars, AI-generated voice is breaking into the mainstream — and Mati Staniszewski, CEO and co-founder of ElevenLabs, is helping lead the charge. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, he’ll take the stage to talk about what it takes to make voice AI truly human.
A new system called Real Simple Licensing would allow AI companies to license training data at a massive scale — if they’re willing to pay for it.
For 16 years, a team of linguists carefully crafted and honed the grammar editing software Grammarly to match natural English language patterns. Now, the company is getting a big assist from AI to expand similar offerings to five more languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Italian. This expansion caters to what has been the “number […]
A new licensing standard aims to let web publishers set the terms of how AI system developers use their work. On Wednesday, major brands like Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, and People Inc. announced support for Really Simple Licensing (RSL), an open content licensing standard that enables publishers to outline how bots should pay to scrape […]
Born, maker of cute virtual pet Pengu, believes the current chatbot landscape isn’t the final form factor for AI friends. The Berlin-based startup raised $15M on the idea that AI companions should have a social component.
TwinMind, available on Android and iOS, passively captures background audio to gain context and deliver on-the-go summaries.
Zillow is launching an AI-powered feature that will allow home hunters to empty the room of furniture or subtly change the design style. The intent is to make it easier to overcome the owner’s dodgy design choices and questionable furniture so buyers can better picture themselves living in a property. In concept, the tool, called […]
The two-year-old startup has been in discussions with investors for a Series C round.
