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Markets2026-07-29 · source-backed
TechCrunch reports the seed led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, with 8 million users at the one-year mark. The origin is the pattern: co-founder Shijia Liao, a former NVIDIA video researcher, trained the initial models on a single gaming GPU, and Fish Speech passed 31,000 stars before the company existed. Models cover 83+ languages and can be self-hosted, which is the explicit wedge against ElevenLabs for teams that won't send voice data to a closed API.
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