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Recently, Meta has actively expanded its market by acquiring excellent artificial intelligence (AI) talent, and this time it has taken over an AI startup.

According to Bloomberg News on the 12th (local time), Meta has recently acquired a small startup developing AI voice technology called 'PlayAI'. The members of this startup will join Meta starting next week.

PlayAI is a startup that develops AI voice technology capable of conversing as naturally as a human, with a total staff of around 20.

In an internal document, Meta evaluated this startup, stating, "The work of creating natural voice and a platform for easy voice production aligns very well with our work and roadmap across AI characters, Meta AI, wearables, and audio content creation."

Meta has recently established a research institute for 'superintelligence', a virtual AI system that surpasses humans, and is recruiting top talent.

Meta has decided to invest $14.3 billion (about 19.7 trillion won) in the AI startup ScaleAI and has recruited its founder and CEO Alexander Wang.

Daniel Gross, CEO of the AI startup 'Safe Superintelligence' (SSI), founded by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, has also joined.

Meta has also proposed a compensation package of up to $100 million to heavily recruit researchers from OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. It is reported to have scouted Apple's AI model development chief with a $200 million compensation package.

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