Sebastian Males

beef noodle aficionado, engineering @elevenlabsio

[Sebastian Males @svmales]

daily reminder

[Sam Altman @sama]

you can just do things

[Mati Staniszewski @mati]

Very excited to announce that @ashleyekramer is joining @ElevenLabs as Chief Revenue Officer.

Ashley joins us from OpenAI, where she led enterprise sales. Her career spans an incredible range of companies and roles, all the way back to starting as a software engineer at NASA!

[ElevenLabs @ElevenLabs]

Singapore data residency is now available for enterprises.

Build and scale with ElevenAgents, ElevenCreative, and ElevenAPI while keeping data and inference within Singapore.

[Sebastian Males @svmales]

@vtemian @balajmarius do it

[ElevenLabs @ElevenLabs]

Introducing Expressive Mode for ElevenAgents - voice agents so expressive, they blur the line between AI and human conversations.

This is an unedited recording of an agent empathizing with a customer at peak frustration.

[Mati Staniszewski @mati]

Today, @elevenlabs is announcing a $500M Series D at an $11B valuation, led by Sequoia, with a16z quadrupling down and ICONIQ tripling down.

It reflects the trust of customers and partners building at the frontier alongside us - and gives us momentum to ship even faster.

[Sebastian Males @svmales]

@AlexPalcuie @ronaldlangeveld Gemini was failing for us for 1h straight last week before Google posted an incident.

[Sebastian Males @svmales]

@naval Only monolingual people believe perfectly fluent AI means there’s no point in learning languages. Everyone else understands languages don’t map to the same underlying state.

[Sebastian Males @svmales]

@karpathy from coding -> life

I’ve been using agents to bounce all kinds of ideas, thoughts, feelings about personal life. I found GPT to be the best, specifically around 5.1 or 5.2 I also felt some boundary was crossed and it’s constantly able to say something that moves or impresses me

[Sebastian Males @svmales]

@rusembassynl How come the Czechs and the Slovaks joined NATO? Are they stupid? :)

[Neel Somani @neelsomani]

Weekend win: The proof I submitted for Erdos Problem #397 was accepted by Terence Tao.

The proof was generated by GPT 5.2 Pro and formalized with Harmonic.

Many open problems are sitting there, waiting for someone to prompt ChatGPT to solve them:

[Sebastian Males @svmales]

excited to have worked on our data residency projects!

[ElevenLabs @ElevenLabs]

India data residency is now available for ElevenLabs Enterprise customers.

Enterprises operating in or serving India can now build with the same advanced voice AI while meeting local data residency, security, and latency requirements.

From multilingual voice support to real-time voice interfaces, your data can now stay entirely within India - with infrastructure designed to meet enterprise compliance and performance needs from day one.

Learn more and request access: https://t.co/1ENC1lVBed

[Sebastian Males @svmales]

👋 let's grab a coffee in SF

I will be in the bay area 14-21st June for the YC AI event. Feel free to dm me if you're around or you know someone interesting I should meet.

https://t.co/nL3yx16tmp

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

What happened in Poland is nothing short of an economic wonder, its standard of living will surpass Japan this year.

Free market, hard work and entrepreneurial spirit are the only way to escape socialist misery and poverty. Congratulations Poland.

[Sebastian Males @svmales]

Proud to see the project I've been working at ElevenLabs for the last 6 months+ is getting more traction. Expanding beyond our enterprise customers, we now offer multi-seat to scale and business tiers too. Just needs a credit card to get started 💳

[ElevenLabs @ElevenLabs]

Multi-seat Workspaces are now available to everyone on our Scale and Business plans.

Workspaces make it easy to share
• custom voices
• conversational agents
• Studio projects
• pronunciation dictionaries, and
• Dubbing projects

across your team.

[Jack Morris @jxmnop]

Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit (2025)

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Life in the 1980s 🧵

1. McDonald's in the 80s compared to today

[Pub @PubWanghaf]

How every game of RISK ends

[Paul Graham @paulg]

When a big new thing appears, we tend to think of it initially in terms of the old thing. For example, people thought of cars and trains as mechanized carriages initially, before starting to see them as their own thing. How are we doing this with AI?

[ElevenLabs @ElevenLabs]

We’ve raised a $180M Series C to give every AI agent a voice.

The past year has been about building the foundations of AI audio - now we’re focused on making speech the standard for how we interact with technology.