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2025 Recap and 2026 Predictions!
31 minutes Posted Dec 19, 2025 at 9:00 am.
Intro and Agenda
Slator 2025 Language Industry Recap
Major Funding in January 2025
Meta and Anthropic News in February 2025
State of AI Report and Trump's EO in March 2025
New Healthcare Voice AI in April 2025
An AI Dubbing Pilot in May 2025
Super Agency Acquisition in June 2025
AI Dubbing Rollout in July 2025
Super Agency Acquisition and Cohere Hiring in August 2025
ElevenLabs Launch and Academic Shock in September 2025
Perplexity Copies OpenAI in October 2025
Mixed Financial Results in November 2025
AI Literary Translation and Live Speech Translation in December 2025
2026 Predictions
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In the 2025 year-end episode of SlatorPod, hosts Florian Faes and Esther Bond reflect on a year defined by rapid AI investment, shifting policy, and structural change across the language industry. Esther opens the year-in-review by highlighting January’s twin funding milestones in the language AI and product space. Florian follows with February, which saw hyperscalers and AI labs release data highly relevant to the way AI translation is being used. March, April, and May saw major developments...