ElevenLabs crossed $430 million in ARR and had a quarter with its first $100 million in net ARR edition.
My analysis of the company's business:
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Wispr Flow is gaining traction in India in the productivity market. I looked into its strategy for expansion in a market with great potential for voice applications
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Apple is breaking transcription apps like Wispr Flow and SuperWhisper with the new iOS 26.4 update.
While, there are fewer apps on Android, the experience on the platform is much better because of the flexibility Google allows
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Voice AI had a stellar first quarter, with startups getting more than $1.88 million in funding in voice and voice-related startups.
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New: ElevenLabs quietly released a new music generation app for consumers called ElevenMusic.
More in my newsletter
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Last week, Cohere and Mistral released their open-source voice models while Granola scored a $125 million round.
Read more in my voice AI newsletter
ElevenLabs is set to launch its music app soon to take on Suno and Udio
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Elon Musk paused X's creator revenue rule change that aimed to focus on regional impressions hours after the company announced it
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Voice AI startups raised more than $650 million in January. The figure goes up if you count startups like Synthesia and Decagon.
Check out the funding tracker on my voice AI newsletter
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WhatsApp is becoming a key part of Meta's business and AI distribution.
The company said during its Q4 results that WhatsApp paid messaging crossed $2 billion in annual run rate.
India's app market had a good year in 2025. While downloads increased, the most eye-catching figure is that in-app purchases crossed the $1 billion mark for the first time.
India was #21 in the app revenue chart, just missing out on the top 20 spot, as per Sensor Tower
New: Facebook is testing limiting the number of links accounts in professional mode and pages can post in a month. They can get rid of this limit if they pay for Meta Verified.
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Reliance Jio is removing age restrictions for its free 18 month Google AI Pro plan in India. You just need to have any of the eligible 5G unlimited plans.
You seem excited and that makes me happy.
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User growth matters much more now. And more than text, generate an image is a better pitch in India.
Typically, a company acquires a startup and changes its branding. In this case, Grammarly acquired Superhuman and changed the company name to Superhuman
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OpenAI will give free access to ChatGPT Go in India for users who sign up before November 4.
Scoop: WhatsApp changed terms of its Business API to ban general purpose chatbots. This will impact WhatsApp bots of ChatGPT and Perplexity.
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To put a limit on spam, WhatsApp is now testing limits on how many messages users and businesses can send in a month without getting replies
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Atlassian is buying Arc and Dia maker The Browser Company for $610 million in an all-cash deal. This shows how tough it is to make browsers a viable business
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Breaking: WhatsApp is adding ads. These ads will show up in Status, the chat app's Stories clone.
Meta says it will only use data like country or city, language, and the channels you are following to serve you ads.
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Verifying myself for the Journalists of Color slack. journalistsofcolor.us/%22
Image generation/editing is very trendy in India right now.
13 out of top 20 free apps on Play Store are Chatbots or AI photo editing apps.
India created a browser challenge, mainly so that applicants can include the country's indigenous root certificate. However, the challenge didn't go well, especially after winners were found pretty much forking popular browsers
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Breaking: Pokémon Go maker Niantic is selling its games division to Saudi-owned Scopely for $3.5 billion. The company is still choosing to run Ingress Prime and Peridot under a new entity called Niantic Spatial.
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