{"id":946438,"date":"2025-07-14T12:10:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T06:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=946438"},"modified":"2025-07-14T12:10:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T06:40:49","slug":"after-scaleai-facebook-parent-meta-acquires-voice-tech-startup-playai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/14\/after-scaleai-facebook-parent-meta-acquires-voice-tech-startup-playai\/","title":{"rendered":"After ScaleAI, Facebook-parent Meta acquires voice tech startup PlayAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook-parent Meta has acquired PlayAI, a voice technology startup in a move which further underscores its aggressive push for into artificial intelligence. This latest acquisition made by Meta follows its early purchase of AI startup \u2014 ScaleAI. Meta acquired ScaleAI for $14.3 billion. With the ScaleAI acquisition Meta aims to build advanced AI systems with human-like capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>As per an internal memo seen by Bloomberg, after this acquisition, the \u2018entire PlayAI team\u2019 will join Meta\u2019s operations. The memo also reveals that the PlayAI team will directly report to Johan Schalkwyk, who joined Meta recently from another voice AI startup called Sesame AI Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook-parent Meta has acquired PlayAI, a voice technology startup in a move which further underscores its aggressive push for into artificial intelligence. This latest acquisition made by Meta follows its early purchase of AI startup \u2014 ScaleAI. Meta acquired ScaleAI for $14.3 billion. With the ScaleAI acquisition Meta aims to build advanced AI systems with human-like capabilities. As per an internal memo seen by Bloomberg, after this acquisition, the \u2018entire PlayAI team\u2019 will join Meta\u2019s operations. The memo also reveals that the PlayAI team will directly report to Johan Schalkwyk, who joined Meta recently from another voice AI startup called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}