Meta has purchased AI voice startup WaveForms for an undisclosed sum, expanding its Superintelligence Labs unit and marking its second recent AI audio acquisition after PlayAI. WaveForms, founded eight months ago, raised $40 million from Andreessen Horowitz at a $160 million pre‑money valuation. Co‑founders Alexis Conneau and Coralie Lemaitre have joined Meta, bringing expertise from OpenAI and Google. The startup’s mission to solve the “Speech Turing Test” and its work on “Emotional General Intelligence” underline its potential to enhance Meta’s audio AI capabilities.
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