Hume AI is a voice AI research and technology company that builds expressive, trustworthy speech models grounded in human preference and judgment. Hume AI's Twitter Score is 40 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #23,564 (top 5%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Hume AI was founded by Alan Cowen, who later departed when Google DeepMind entered a licensing arrangement with the company and hired Cowen along with several engineers. Andrew Ettinger currently serves as Chief Executive Officer, and the company continues to operate independently. Hume AI's research infrastructure spans datasets, speech models, evaluation frameworks, and human-preference pipelines aimed at making voice AI more expressive and measurable.
Hume AI raised a Series A led by Union Square Ventures, with participation from Comcast Ventures, LG Technology Ventures, and Northwell Health, followed by a $50M Series B led by EQT Ventures and joined by Union Square Ventures, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Metaplanet, Northwell Holdings, Comcast Ventures, and LG Technology Ventures. Hume AI has published 721 posts and has been mentioned by 24 accounts a total of 44 times, with 23,195 followers as of September 2026 on the platform.
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