At Hume AI, we believe that modern-day technology should service human well-being above all else.
For algorithms to treat our emotions as ends in and of themselves, they will need to learn from the way humans naturally perceive and attend to each other’s emotional needs. They will need to be able to process the full array of emotional cues in expression, language, and action. The ability to read these cues accurately—in other words, empathy—is the key ingredient missing in modern day AI technologies.
Founded by leading emotion scientists and artificial intelligence researchers, Hume is a new scientific endeavor that aims to pave the way for an ethical, human-centric future for empathic AI, ensuring that as technology gets smarter it remains aligned with our goals.
Partnering with researchers around the world, Hume is collecting emotionally rich, multicultural affective datasets that will provide the key missing ingredient needed to train empathic AI models across a wide range of applications and technologies, including social networks, digital assistants, health monitoring apps, and more.
For algorithms to treat our emotions as ends in and of themselves, they will need to learn from the way humans naturally perceive and attend to each other’s emotional needs. They will need to be able to process the full array of emotional cues in expression, language, and action. The ability to read these cues accurately—in other words, empathy—is the key ingredient missing in modern day AI technologies.
Founded by leading emotion scientists and artificial intelligence researchers, Hume is a new scientific endeavor that aims to pave the way for an ethical, human-centric future for empathic AI, ensuring that as technology gets smarter it remains aligned with our goals.
Partnering with researchers around the world, Hume is collecting emotionally rich, multicultural affective datasets that will provide the key missing ingredient needed to train empathic AI models across a wide range of applications and technologies, including social networks, digital assistants, health monitoring apps, and more.
Location: United States, New York
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $62.7M
Founded date: 2021
Investors 3
| Date | Name | Website |
| 13.05.2024 | EQT Ventur... | eqtventure... |
| 05.02.2023 | UNION SQUA... | usv.com/ |
| - | Wisdom Ven... | wisdomvent... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 27.03.2024 | Series B | $50M | - |
| 26.01.2023 | Series A | $12.7M | - |
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| 18.10.2024 | Meta Introduces Spirit LM open source model that combines text and speech inputs/outputs | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Just in time for Halloween 2024, Meta has unveiled Meta Spirit LM, the company’s first open-source multimodal lan... |
| 18.09.2024 | Who needs GPT-4o Advanced Voice Mode? Hume’s EVI 2 is here with emotionally inflected voice AI and API | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More When we last reported on Hume, the AI startup co-founded and led by former Google DeepMinder/computational scient... |
| 30.07.2024 | OpenAI opens limited access to ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode on mobile | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI has announced the alpha rollout of its new Advanced Voice Mode for a select group of ChatGPT Plus users, a... |
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