Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools to create clones of people's voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg had raised roughly $4M (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
OpenAI acquired voice cloning startup Weights.gg earlier this year; the company had raised roughly $4M and offered tools to create AI clones of people's voices.
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/technology/openai-weightsgg-voice-cloning.html?unlocked_article_code=1.i1A.zFXQ.2x-Qk7duemL3"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260515/i34.jpg" vspace="4" /></a>
<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260515/p34#a260515p34" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Mike Isaac / <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/">New York Times</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/technology/openai-weightsgg-voice-cloning.html?unlocked_article_code=1.i1A.zFXQ.2x-Qk7duemL3">Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools to create clones of people's voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg had raised roughly $4M</a></b></span> — The acquisition, Weights.gg, was a sort of social network for creating and sharing artificial intelligence algorithms.</p>
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