Startup Smallest.ai raised $13M in a Series A led by Seligman Ventures for voice AI models indistinguishable from humans. A two-model architecture — a fast voice model plus a larger LLM — aims to cut conversation latency to near zero.
Palo Alto's Fish Audio raised a $52M seed round for voice generation and cloning models. The startup has over 8M users and $21M in annual recurring revenue, and open-sources part of its models.
