Juliette Rolnick

@kirbyman01 @a16z Big news! Your support has been invaluable, and I’m so excited to watch you build. I just know you will crush it.

PERSONAL UPDATE: After 5+ years, I am leaving @a16z to start a fund! This was the toughest career decision of my life. I learned from the best partners and was privileged to work with incredible founders. So why leave? It is simply time to build. More to come on this.

@venturetwins @a16z Love it! Next time in NY?🙏🏼

Our team @a16z infra is hosting a happy hour for women in AI ✨ This event is designed for researchers, engineers, and MTS to connect and chat all things emerging research. It's next Wednesday in SF - just a few spots left and RSVPs are required, see link 👇

The Music Marketplace is live in ElevenCreative. Creators can now publish tracks and earn when they are downloaded or remixed. The same model behind $11M+ in creator payouts through our Voice Marketplace, now applied to music.

The ear is the most spiritually determined of the senses.

We just launched Music Finetunes in @ElevenCreative Upload your tracks, train a custom model, and generate music with true stylistic consistency across genres, instruments and artists All with built-in copyright screening to protect creators

Introducing Music Finetunes in ElevenCreative. Generate individual vocals, instruments, or full tracks with stylistic consistency using a fine-tuned version of our Music model. Create your own Finetune or get started instantly with 11 Finetunes curated by ElevenLabs.

While everyone is focused on LLMs, a 10-year-old transformer architecture, there is a whole new set of frontier labs that believe that the current LLMs aren't fit for purpose. And they are right. There is a new wave of disruption. It is coming and will take everyone by storm. I suspect the current labs will buy the new frontier model labs as soon as they show early results. AGI will be less about a mega model and more about a super-smart model/agent orchestrator that splits tasks and sends them to the best model. Congrats Yann LeCun! You are propelling the French startup ecosystem.

Given the spaceship-like complexity of the instrument, 9 of the first 10 Moog albums shared one musician: Paul Beaver. Even as AI lowers the learning curve, I think there’s still real opportunity for early adopters to become exceptional at end-to-end hit creation (and earn the producer credits that come with it).

A highlight from my recent trip to @NAMM was seeing the Moog synthesizer in action. For those unfamiliar, this instrument (technology) has been a pillar of the music that we all love - producing the rock, electronic, and pop sounds of the 60s. From the Moog Foundation: “At first, Bob Moog didn’t think of his synthesizer as a total solution for the musician… ‘There was never a notion that a synthesizer would be used by itself for anything.’ But as soon as the first modular systems were available, musicians from many genres began to think of the Moog as a standalone musical instrument.”

@austin_malerba 🚀💪

11 big boyss, wild… kinda speechless tbh Joined eleven at 15 people and now we’ve blown past 400. Been working on some fun things, will share them soon👀

We just raised $500M at an 11B valuation 🎉 To celebrate, we’re giving away 1,000 free credits so you can test our platform. For the next 6 hours, comment “11B” below and we’ll DM you the credits (must follow) 👇

Introducing The Eleven Album. A first-of-its-kind collaboration between GRAMMY-nominated, chart-topping artists and Eleven Music.

Happy Monday! Sharing a highlight from our work with Mozart AI: ElevenLabs provides the underlying music model and API that enables Mozart to develop a new kind of DAW - a generative DAW that combines ease of use with granular control. This allows producers to work with individual stems, refine specific sections, and move quickly from idea to production-ready output. Our work together reflects a shared belief that powerful creative tools should be accessible without compromising creative control. Read more here: elevenlabs.io/blog/mozart-ai

Talk to Santa in real time, explore AI-generated Christmas songs, and create your own video greeting. The Santa voice agent is built with our Agents Platform and Scribe v2. It handles natural dialogue with low latency and maintains character throughout the conversation.

@louisjoejordan @austin_malerba This is so useful. I find myself recording Apple voice notes and uploading them to AI tools for synthesis and response - needed a better flow.

Introducing Speech Input - a voice input component built for shadcn/ui. Speech Input is now part of ElevenLabs UI - an open-source library of audio & agent components for the web. Shoutout to @austin_malerba for adding this beautiful new primitive

Cohort models and recommendation engines have blurred the line between genuine and engineered preference. Music happens to be an interesting medium that makes preference especially clear. It triggers pleasure and emotion, revealing taste in ways that are both true and increasingly measurable.

As the AI systems we’re all beginning to use at a growing pace get better at execution, we’re now forced to get better ourselves at defining what it is we really want. "Prompt engineering” is a task that poses the deepest questions we’ve been asking ourselves all along: What do I like? What do I want?