Resemble AI announced a $13 million strategic investment round including participation from Google's AI Futures Fund, Sony Innovation Fund, Okta Ventures, Comcast Ventures, and Berkeley Frontier Fund, bringing total funding to $25 million CNBC. Deepfake-related fraud caused $1.56 billion in losses in 2025 alone, and generative AI could enable US fraud losses of $40 billion by 2027 Cryptopolitan, as organizations face mounting pressure to verify digital content authenticity amid surging AI-generated threats targeting authentication, identity verification, and corporate communications infrastructure.

The funding will accelerate global expansion of Resemble AI's detection platform including DETECT-3B Omni, an enterprise-grade deepfake detection model with 98% detection accuracy across more than 38 languages, and Resemble Intelligence, a newly launched platform delivering enhanced explainability for multimodal AI-generated analysis powered by Google Gemini 3 CNBC. Public benchmark results on Hugging Face show the model ranking first on audio and image deepfake detection leaderboards with a lower average error rate than competing models H2S Media.

Recent incidents in Singapore saw 13 individuals collectively lose more than SGD 360,000 after scammers impersonated a telecommunications provider and the Monetary Authority using caller ID spoofing, voice deepfakes, and social engineering techniques Artificial Intelligence News.

Resemble AI was founded in 2018 as a provider of voice and media generation tools before pivoting to security, having already built its own generative models, produced large volumes of synthetic training sets and studied the subtle artifacts left behind by different model architectures H2S Media. Founder and CEO Zohaib Ahmed explained the technical strategy differs from most players, rejecting the idea that deepfake detection is primarily about pattern-spotting in real-world data, stating that deepfakes are nearly impossible to detect because detection requires massive amounts of synthetic data that isn't readily available and must be computationally created H2S Media.

Resemble AI released 2026 threat predictions suggesting deepfake detection may become mandatory for official video conferencing following multiple government officials being targeted in 2025, representing a $500 million+ procurement opportunity establishing government as the fastest-growing segment for detection technology Cryptopolitan. With 363 business/corporate incidents in 2025 and high-profile financial-sector losses, corporate deepfake insurance premiums are poised to rise Cryptopolitan.

Stephen Lee, VP of Technical Strategy and Partnerships at Okta, stated that the rise of generative AI and deepfake-driven fraud presents a growing challenge for identity systems worldwide, with Resemble AI's technology providing AI-powered signal verification that will be critical to strengthening the identity security fabric and protecting trust across authentication, workforce, and customer experiences CNBC.

Zohaib Ahmed, Cofounder and CEO of Resemble AI, emphasized that the backing of strategic investors highlights the critical need for a real-time AI verification platform, with the company's extensive generative AI expertise enabling it to stay ahead of attacks with instant detection, and that funding scales capabilities worldwide so organizations can protect their people, brand, and revenue from deepfake threats of any type including audio, video, still images, and text CNBC.

Industry stakeholders noted that rapid improvement of generative AI is reshaping how enterprises think about content trust and identity systems Artificial Intelligence News.

Companies without deployed deepfake detection would face higher insurance rates or policy denials as insurers reassess cyber insurance premiums following documented business losses Cryptopolitan. Organizations across all sectors are evaluating how verification, identity safeguards, and incident readiness can fit into broader security and compliance strategies Artificial Intelligence News.

Several investors including Okta Ventures, Sony Ventures, and Google are integrating the technology into their own security ecosystems H2S Media, suggesting enterprise adoption is accelerating beyond standalone detection tools toward embedded verification layers within identity infrastructure. The company's DETECT-3B Omni is already used in sectors like entertainment, telecommunications, and government Artificial Intelligence News, demonstrating practical deployment across diverse operational environments requiring real-time content verification before the anticipated regulatory mandates materialize.

Following multiple government officials being targeted in 2025, it is only a matter of time before governments mandate real-time deepfake detection on official video calls, with 656 political incidents in 2025 where video comprised 41.6% of all incidents Cryptopolitan. The growing number of corporate deepfake incidents could lead insurers to reassess their policies, with companies without detection tools facing higher premiums or limited coverage Artificial Intelligence News. Decision-makers should anticipate regulatory frameworks requiring mandatory verification for high-stakes communications while building verification layers into identity and authentication architecture before insurance markets and government mandates impose compliance requirements.

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Source: Resemble AI, Artificial Intelligence News, SiliconANGLE, SecurityWeek, Yahoo Finance
Date: December 8, 2025