Puri: Voice AI startups like ElevenLabs are vulnerable to foundation models
Shaan Puri · This $50M/Yr Side Hustle Is On Track To Make $1 Billion By 2030 · Jun 3, 2024 · at 43:29
Shaan Puri analyzes the vulnerability of point-solution AI companies to foundational model updates released by OpenAI.
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“These companies that do voice, text-to-voice, so like, you know, 11 Labs is one, PlayHT is another, it's like, basically they're like, we're better than, like, we can do AI, you type in a thing, and we can create a human-sounding AI, and we're going to fine-tune our model to do that. But then open AI releases like every, every month they just release a new thing. It's like, yeah, we have text to voice now. Check it out. Here's the demo. The demo is awesome. It's like, it's only going to get better. And then it's going to become a standard API for anybody to use text to voice. It's like, I think those companies that are trying to be like, we have our own proprietary model, our own fine tuned use case. They're going to really struggle because they can't compete with the behemoth.”
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