Modulate Raises $25 Million to Advance Deepfake Detection
Frontier AI firm Modulate has raised an additional $25 million funding from Future Ventures, with participation from Hyperplane and Lakestar, bringing its total funding to $60 million. Modulate builds audio-native AI models that enable machines to understand the nuances in human conversation, whether natural or fake.
It uses a proprietary Ensemble Listening Model (ELM) architecture to generate the individual AI models that power its Velma platform. Velma brings together more than 100 of these specialized models that understand and detect signals including emotion, tone, intent, synthetic speech and conversational behavior.
The firm currently analyzes more than 10 million hours of audio each month, with over 600 million hours analyzed in total. According to Modulate, its transcription and deepfake detection models both ranked #1 on public benchmarks like Hugging Face.
Modulatefocuses on using AI to analyze voice rather than create voice. It claims its Velma platform results are twice as...
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