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NEWS UPDATES
Meta acquires voice-AI startup PlayAI, continues talent spree
Meta bought PlayAI for about $225 million in cash and stock. PlayAI builds low-latency voice-cloning tech and a small-footprint speech-to-speech model that runs on mobile. Its 40-person team—including three former Apple Siri leads—will join Meta’s super-intelligence division under Yann LeCun. The deal lands just a week after Meta hired Apple’s head of AI models.
If your roadmap depends on premium voice interfaces, watch Meta’s API pricing; it may undercut rivals to gain share. You should also revisit non-compete clauses for audio researchers before Meta recruiters call.
Google hires Windsurf’s CEO after OpenAI deal collapses
TechCrunch reports Google snapped up Windsurf CEO Diana Truong two months after OpenAI talks stalled over IP terms. Windsurf’s 20-person team builds AI models that summarise long videos and has filed three patents on temporal attention. Truong joins Google DeepMind as senior director of research, while Windsurf will shut down and open-source its code.
If you rely on video-understanding tools, expect Google Cloud to integrate Windsurf tech into Vertex AI quickly. That could bring cheaper, built-in video summarisation—time to compare versus your current third-party spend.
OpenAI quietly tests an AI web browser inside ChatGPT
Screenshots show a “Browse Beta” that looks like a slim browser pane to the left of ChatGPT. Users can load sites, hover for AI summaries and ask follow-up questions without switching tabs. The beta appears in ChatGPT Plus accounts for a small slice of users.
For research and marketing teams, this could replace traditional browsers for quick fact-checks or competitor scans. Audit how many paid research tools you can retire if ChatGPT eventually bundles real-time browsing for everyone.
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MARKET
💰 Funding
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