Two years ago, I met Mati Staniszewski in a time before AI voices were good enough to fool anyone. ElevenLabs hadn’t launched yet, but their vision was clear: voice was broken, and they were going to fix it.

Today, ElevenLabs is one of the fastest-moving companies in the agentic voice space. Their platform powers narration for authors, dubbing for studios, real-time agents for enterprises, and everything in between. At the 9th Research and Applied AI Summit in London, Mati and I recounted the story of how they got here, and where they're going next, and lessons learned for any founder building in AI.