David AI Raises $5M to Bring High-Quality Audio AI into the Mainstream

For decades, audio has been a cornerstone of human communication, enabling connection, understanding, and collaboration across the globe. But when it comes to interactions with artificial intelligence, audio has remained surprisingly underdeveloped. While text-based models like ChatGPT have demonstrated the transformative potential of AI, audio remains constrained by a lack of high-quality, diverse, and scalable data—a challenge David AI set out to solve just six months ago. Founded by Tomer C. and Ben Wiley, David AI emerged with a mission to make audio as central to human-to-AI interaction as it is to human-to-human communication. Their vision? To provide model developers with access to the kind of high-quality, expansive audio datasets that could finally bring audio AI into the mai