Generative Audio AI

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the a16z Podcast 20VC

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ElevenLabs Engineer: A single AI model will eventually generate all audio
“Currently we have specialized models for audio, for sound effects, and for music, and I think the future of sound is kind of like having one model which can generate any kind of audio.”
ElevenLabs Engineer Feb 6, 2026 ▶ 8:39 From $0 to $11B: The ElevenLabs Story
20VC Disclosure
Shulman: Suno abandoned sense-making tool as generative audio advanced unexpectedly fast
“Our backgrounds are all NLP, and we thought it would actually be a lot harder to do good generative stuff, and so we thought the first product would be more sense-making. You know, try to scratch your head and think back to, like, GPT-II. No one was really mak…”
Mikey Shulman Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 1:33 Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

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