Series B · $50M
$50M Series B.
Media Models · Private company · Deployment
Hume AI
✓ VerifiedHume AI differentiates in voice through research on emotional expression, native speech-language models, and human-grounded evaluation.
New York, USFounded 2021API accessWeekday review
Editorial intelligence brief
What matters now
Released the Real World VoiceEQ benchmark in July 2026 after open-sourcing the TADA speech-generation system in March.
Focus: Emotionally intelligent speech-language models, expressive voice, and voice-model evaluation
Latest funding
$50M
Series B · source-backed
Tracked funding
$50M
Sum of itemized funding events
Latest valuation
Not tracked
No source-backed record
Latest revenue
Not tracked
Deployment lifecycle position
Source-backed financial history
Capital and commercial trajectory
Funding, valuation, revenue, and debt are kept separate so unlike measurements are never presented as one trend.
Records
1
Tracked total
$50M
Coverage
partial
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Series B · $50M
Running tracked total: $50M
Every numbered chart marker maps to one source-linked funding announcement below.
Hume AI ↗ source for Series B $50M
Chronological activity
What changed
Released the Real World VoiceEQ benchmark in July 2026 after open-sourcing the TADA speech-generation system in March.
A structured event record is still being assembled for this company.
Recent coverage of Hume AI
Consolidated by storyHume AI open-sources TADA, a speech model five times faster than rivals with zero hallucinated words
the-decoder.com · Mar 14
Hume AI Names Andrew Ettinger as CEO and Expands Research Partnerships
thekeyexecutives.com · Feb 17
Google DeepMind Acquires Hume AI Team to Boost Gemini Voice Features
Межа. Новини України. · 2 related sources · Jan 22
Product surface
Products and model families
Recent models
EVI 3Octave 2TADA
Products
EVI APIOctave APIKairosReal World VoiceEQ
Open weights
No
API access
Yes
Review cadence
Weekdays
Market position
Lifecycle and strategic signals
Research
Preview
Growth
Deployment
Deployment: Production & at scale
Focus
Emotionally intelligent speech-language models, expressive voice, and voice-model evaluation
Signals
SpeechResearchEvaluations
Taxonomy
Open Weight LabsVertical + EnterpriseAudio / speechResearch
Competitive context
ElevenLabsCartesiaDeepgram
Infrastructure & distribution
Where Hume AI sits in the AI stack
01
Model layer
3 tracked model families
02
Access layer
Managed API
03
Market layer
Media Models
Public product surface
EVI APIOctave APIKairosReal World VoiceEQ
Stack signals
Audio / speechResearchSpeechEvaluations
This section reflects publicly visible product and access signals. Undisclosed GPU, cloud, training, and data-center contracts are not inferred.
Evidence trail
Sources and corrections
Primary and public sources used to verify the structured company profile.
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