ElevenLabs
8 published articles
Election Integrity
Voice AI meets democracy: ElevenLabs signs first electoral authority pact
ElevenLabs partners with Brazil's election authority to add voice AI to election information services, while expanding safeguards against misuse. The company also works with policymakers and detection firms to protect the 2026 elections.
2026-08-09
Voice Agents
Why Grok 4.1 Fast beats smarter models on a phone call
Overall leaderboards pick the wrong LLMs for voice calls. BenchLM's 2026 ranking puts latency first: Grok 4.1 Fast answers in 0.54s while Claude Opus 4.6, the top scorer, needs 1.78s. Fast models take the conversation; reasoning models stay on background tool calls.
2026-08-05
AI Geopolitics
Why Small European States Keep Handing Money to the Same Voice AI Startup
Greece and Poland both struck deals with ElevenLabs within weeks of each other, one a public-services contract, one a state investment. Different instruments, same underlying strategy: buying proximity to a winning European AI company rather than trying to build a frontier lab of their own.
2026-07-29
Creative Production
ElevenLabs just turned video production into a conversation
ElevenLabs' Flows Agent adds an AI assistant to its node-based media canvas, letting users describe desired outputs and get fully built pipelines in return. It represents the shift from manual chaining to agentic orchestration in generative media.
2026-07-29
Partnership
ElevenLabs just got the UK government to put a testbed for voice AI in public services
ElevenLabs has signed an MOU with the UK government's DSIT to test voice AI in public services, focusing on accessibility for visually impaired, elderly, and linguistically diverse communities. The company is expanding its London HQ and doubling UK staff to 200.
2026-07-28
Digital Government
Greece just did what three governments haven't: it bet voice AI on a dying dialect
Greece is partnering with ElevenLabs to bring voice AI to gov.gr, tourism portals, and preservation of regional dialects like Cretan. The deal was signed by the Minister of Digital Governance and AI, Dimitris Papastergiou, and marks the first state-level voice AI pact in Southern Europe.
2026-07-27
European autonomy
Poland just bought into ElevenLabs. The message is not about the check size.
ElevenLabs has taken state capital from Poland. The investment, routed through Vinci and paired with a new research lab in Warsaw, is a bet on keeping European AI founder talent from drifting to the US. The check size matters less than the signal.
2026-07-26
European AI
ElevenLabs brought its AI summit to Warsaw. The message is bigger than voice tech.
ElevenLabs hosted its third summit in Warsaw at the National Opera, drawing 2,500 attendees including Polish leaders and European founders. The event marked a homecoming for the AI voice startup's founders and signaled Poland's growing role in AI innovation.
2026-07-25