Former Notebooklm Devs’ New App, Huxe, Taps Audio To Help You With News And Research

Google’s AI note-taking and investigation adjunct NotebookLM took disconnected to a spectacular reception astatine launch, capturing people’s imaginations pinch its expertise to quickly whip up summaries and reports, and move reams of documents into “podcasts” pinch AI hosts discussing nan taxable to thief users successful their research.

Inspired by nan occurrence of nan project, 3 devs who worked connected NotebookLM since its inception are now building an audio-first app called Huxe, which tin likewise thief users dive heavy into topics by generating a “podcast” pinch aggregate AI hosts. The startup said connected Tuesday that it had raised $4.6 cardinal successful backing from Conviction, Genius Ventures, Figma CEO Dylan Field, and Google Research’s main scientist, Jeff Dean.

The app launched connected an invite-only ground successful June, and is now disposable to everyone connected iOS and Android.

Raiza Martin, on pinch Jason Spielman and Stephen Hughes, near Google successful December 2024 to research their ain ideas. They initially launched a chatbot slanted towards much B2B usage cases, but decided to attraction connected nan user marketplace and built a individual adjunct successful March 2025 that could make personalized images, videos, and audio.

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“During this phase, we realized that group liked having nan expertise to make audio for different topics. We besides observed that group often utilized nan app astatine circumstantial times to get their regular little aliases drawback up pinch news while getting ready,” Martin told TechCrunch.

That penetration led nan 3 to thin into audio and build Huxe.

Huxe fundamentally gives you a regular briefing based connected nan emails you person and by connecting to your calendars to understand your schedule. It besides lets you research topics, and for illustration NotebookLM, it will make a podcast pinch AI hosts discussing nan topic. You tin interact pinch nan AI hosts astatine immoderate constituent successful time, inquire questions astir nan topic, aliases petition them to explicate points successful a different way.

What’s different present is that Huxe lets users build a “live station” of immoderate topic, for illustration tech news, sports, aliases moreover personage gossip. After you perceive to a station, nan app will springiness you updates by tapping different sources — adjuvant for pursuing processing news. There’s besides a personalized liking feed, which automatically generates audio contented that mightiness liking you.

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Martin said that during nan early NotebookLM days, a cohort of powerfulness users drove nan merchandise feedback, and Huxe is seeing akin signs.

“This is simply a well-suited merchandise for group who walk each time connected their screens pinch tons of tabs unfastened connected their browser. People who mightiness want to drawback up connected their email, schedule, and news tin do that without looking astatine their screen,” she said.

Huxe presently is suited to nan accusation market, but intermezo tin beryllium a imaginable usage case, too. India-based audio companies for illustration Pocket FM and Kuku FM, for example, pat AI to fto users create content. And Huxe is not nan only 1 utilizing audio arsenic a medium. Startups for illustration ElevenLabs and Oboe are leveraging audio, too, arsenic are Google and Meta.