Apple Acquires Israeli Audio AI Startup Q.ai

Apple Acquires DarwinAI to Boost On‑Device AI

March 14, 2024

AI & Machine Learning

Apple quietly acquired Canadian AI startup DarwinAI earlier in 2024, adding dozens of DarwinAI employees to its AI team. DarwinAI’s technology — focused on making AI models smaller and faster and on visual inspection for manufacturing and supply chains — will be used to help Apple run more AI capabilities on devices for iOS 18 and other products.

Augmented Intelligence (AUI) Acquires Quack AI

February 27, 2026

AI & Machine Learning

Augmented Intelligence (AUI) has acquired Quack AI, a developer of trainable AI agents for customer service. The deal brings Quack AI's ~15-person team into AUI, is expected to double AUI's Israeli R&D presence in Tel Aviv, and will integrate Quack's agent technology with AUI's Apollo-1 neuro-symbolic AI platform to expand customer service automation capabilities.

Voices Acquires Voices.ai to Launch Developer Platform for Voice Applications

April 24, 2023

AI & Machine Learning

Voices, the global voice-over marketplace, has acquired Voices.ai and plans to launch a next-generation developer platform for voice applications that will include APIs, libraries, documentation and cloud infrastructure. The acquisition supports Voices’ push into AI-generated voices and developer-focused tools to serve use cases such as voice assistants, eLearning and real-time synthetic voice applications.

Meta Acquires AI Audio Startup WaveForms

August 8, 2025

AI & Machine Learning

Meta has acquired AI voice startup WaveForms for an undisclosed sum to bolster its Superintelligence Labs AI unit. The startup — founded in 2024 and backed by Andreessen Horowitz — will bring its audio/voice LLM technology and founding team to Meta; roughly a dozen employees are reported to have been part of the company prior to the deal.

Meta Acquires PlayAI

July 13, 2025

AI & Machine Learning

Meta Platforms, Inc. has acquired PlayAI, a startup that builds hyper-realistic voice generation and cloning technology. The financial terms were not disclosed; Meta said the entire PlayAI team will join and that the acquisition aligns with its roadmap across AI Characters, Meta AI, wearables and audio content creation.

OpenAI Acquires Jony Ive's io for $6.5 Billion

May 21, 2025

AI & Machine Learning

OpenAI agreed to buy io, the AI hardware and design startup founded by Jony Ive, in an all‑stock deal valued at about $6.5 billion. The acquisition brings roughly 55 engineers and designers into OpenAI and folds io and LoveFrom’s design responsibilities into OpenAI as it pursues a new family of consumer AI devices.