Meta has acquired voice AI startup PlayAI to strengthen its Superintelligence Labs and accelerate development of natural-sounding voice tech across AI characters, wearables, and content creation.

Unlike AI models from Google and OpenAI, Meta's Llama is described as "open source," meaning its underlying code is freely ...

Meta said the PlayAI team will be working under Johan Schalkwyk, a big name in the AI world who used to lead speech AI ...