Papercup, an AI-based content dubbing start-up, is dangerously close to outgrowing its start-up status. The UK-born voice synthesis specialist claims to be in talks with most of the major Hollywood studios, while scaling out current offerings and developing new ones means Papercup’s cloud compute costs are swelling to such an extent that consolidation of the big three hyperscalers is imminent – soon to standardize on just one. Era-defining decisions lie ahead for Papercup and the broader AI-based voice market – one lined with controversy and potential litigation. What Papercup offers is text-to-speech capabilities enhanced with third-party large language models (LLMs), which are used to train its proprietary AI of some six years in the making. So, glorified natural language processing,…