Google’s AI Note-Teching and Research Assistant Notebooklm left for a spectacular reception in the launch, which quickly summarized the fantasies of the people with the ability to summarize and report the report quickly, and the remarks of documents with AI hosts were converted into “podcast”, which was discussing the subject to help users in their research.
Inspired by the success of the project, the three gods who used to work on the notebook since their establishment are now creating an audio-first app. HuksheWhich can help users to dive deep into the subjects by generating “podcast” with several AI hosts. The startup stated on Tuesday that it had gathered $ 4.6 million in funding from Jeff Dean, the chief scientist of Genius Ventures, Figma CEO Dylan Field and Google Research.
The app launched only one invitation in June, and is now available to all. IOS And Android,
Raisa Martin, along with Jason Spielman and Stephen Hughes, left Google in December 2024 to detect her own views. He initially launched a chatbot slant towards more B2B use cases, but decided to focus on the consumer market and in March 2025 created a personal assistant that could produce personal images, videos and audio.
“During this phase, we realized that people loved the ability to generate audio for various subjects. We also saw that people often used the app at a specific time to achieve their daily brief or catch with the news while getting ready,” Martin told Techcrunch.
That insight motivated all three to include audio and build Hukshe,
The huxes essentially give you a daily briefing based on the email you get and to understand your schedule. It also allows you to detect subjects, and like the notebook form, it will generate a podcast with the AI host discussing the subject. You can interact with AI host at any time, ask questions about the subject, or request them to explain points in a different way.
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What is different here that the hux user allows any subject to create a “live station”, such as tech news, sports, or even celebrity gossip. After listening to a station, the app will give you updates by tapping various sources – helpful to follow developing news. There is also an individual interest feed, which automatically produces audio content that can give you interest.
Martin stated that during the days of the early notebook, a group of power users removed the product’s response, and the huxes are looking at the same signal.
“This is a well -favorable product for those who spend the whole day on their screen with open tones on their browser. Those who want to catch their email, schedule and news, and can do the news without looking at their screen,” he said.
The hux is currently friendly to the information market, but entertainment may also be a case of a possible use. For example, India -based audio companies such as pocket FM and Kuku FM tap AI to make materials to users. And Hux is not the only one to use audio as a medium. Startups such as Elevenlabs and OBOE are also taking advantage of audio in the form of Google and Meta.
