Acquisition Details - Meta has acquired AI voice startup WaveForms to enhance its AI unit, Superintelligence Labs, marking its second major AI audio acquisition in a month after acquiring PlayAI [1] - WaveForms was founded eight months ago and raised $40 million from Andreessen Horowitz, with a pre-money valuation of $160 million [1] Key Personnel - Two co-founders of WaveForms, Alexis Conneau and Coralie Lemaitre, have joined Meta; Conneau previously co-created GPT4-o Advanced Voice Mode neural networks at OpenAI [2] - The status of the third co-founder, Kartikay Khandelwal, and the remaining staff of approximately 14 employees is currently unclear [2] Company Mission and Technology - WaveForms aimed to solve the "Speech Turing Test," which assesses the ability to distinguish between human and AI-generated speech [3] - The company was also focused on developing "Emotional General Intelligence," which involves understanding self-awareness and management [3]