ElevenLabs co-founder and CEO Mati Staniszewski discloses user metrics for the company's creative voice platform.
Insight
Audio AI progress requires architectural breakthroughs rather than raw compute scale
“The main part that I think is different in audio space is that you don't need the scale as much as you need the, Architectural breakthroughs, the model breakthroughs to really make a dent.”
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2027
Voice conversational AI will pass the Turing test within a year
“I think this is, is good for customer support or customer experience, but it's still a way away from like conversation like we have and like passing that Turing test. So I think this is still like a, at least a year, like within a year. And then you will have …”
Insight
Staniszewski: AI research is only a head start; ecosystems create lasting value
“The thing that will really give that long-term value is the ecosystem that you create around, whether that's the run and distribution, whether that's the collection of voices you can have, the collection of integrations you can build, the workflows that you ca…”
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Staniszewski: Cascaded voice architectures will dominate enterprise for 1–2 years
“And of course, depending on the use case, if you are, like, enterprise-reliable use case, the cascaded approach is the approach for the next year to...”
Assertion Supported
ElevenLabs reached $300M ARR, split evenly between self-serve and enterprise
“We are at three hundred million in, in, in ARR, which is roughly fifty-fifty between SelfServe, so a lot of subscription and creators using our creative platform, and then Approaching 50% on the enterprise side using our agents platform work, and that's on the…”
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Ukraine's government partnered with ElevenLabs to build agentic public services
“Recently I went to Ukraine where we are working with Ministry of Transformation, where they are effectively creating a first agent in government, and the crazy thing is, they have all of those.”