PlayAI History
Name that Employee
Internal codenames
Founders
Meta
100

Play's YC Batch

W23

100

Discord users thought he was a bot

Ajai

100

Any of the birds related to v1

Pigeon / Peregrine

100

What company did Felfel work at before Play?

WhatsApp

100

Project name for the Meta x Play acquisition

Sonic

200

A company’s announcement video that went viral for using Slavoj’s voice

OpenAi + LoveFrom

200

Coined the term "I'll sleep when it's in prod"

Sohan

200

The main server that handled most of our TTS operations, especially Studio

Chirpy

200

What city did Hammad and Felfel live in when they incorporated Play?

London

200
VP that used to work at Sesame (full name)

Johan Schalkwyk

300

Address of our last office

301 High St, Palo Alto, CA 94301 United States

300
Person who's Slack picture was imitated by a few people

Ranniery

300

v1's HFVC server (hint: also part of a famous American novel)

Mockingbird 

300

The sum of the number of kids that Felfel & Hammad have

5

300

Year that our new glorious leader of Superintelligence Lab founded his company

2016

400

Posted the viral tweet about the Agents product when it first released

Aaron Levie

400

Previously founded another Kindred Ventures startup

Kei

400

2.0 is associated with Gargamel (wizard) and what bird?

Parrot

400

First name is officially FNU

Hammad

400
Names of the Llama 4 models (at least two out of three)

Scout, Maverick, Behemoth

500

Functionality of TalkLlama

STT → TTS on WhatsApp

500

Name behind the master AWS key that was used by all the services and broke a ton of apps when we revoked it

Adepitan Oriyomi

500

The bird name that could've been given to the 3.0 model (hint: Bryan proposed it)

Merlin (https://play-extension.slack.com/archives/C04H7313LEP/p1728437108347259)

500

Number of times applied to YC before being accepted

3 times

500

Name of latest big hire from Apple

Ruoming Pang

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