Former NotebookLM devs’ new app, Huxe, taps audio to help you with news and research

Google’s AI note-taking and probe adjunct NotebookLM took disconnected to a spectacular reception astatine launch, capturing people’s imaginations with its quality to rapidly whip up summaries and reports, and crook reams of documents into “podcasts” with AI hosts discussing the taxable to assistance users successful their research.

Inspired by the occurrence of the project, 3 devs who worked connected NotebookLM since its inception are present gathering an audio-first app called Huxe, which tin likewise assistance users dive heavy into topics by generating a “podcast” with 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 present disposable to everyone connected iOS and Android.

Raiza Martin, on with 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 absorption connected the user marketplace and built a idiosyncratic adjunct successful March 2025 that could make personalized images, videos, and audio.

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“During this phase, we realized that radical liked having the quality to make audio for antithetic topics. We besides observed that radical often utilized the app astatine circumstantial times to get their regular little oregon drawback up with quality portion getting ready,” Martin told TechCrunch.

That penetration led the 3 to thin into audio and physique Huxe.

Huxe fundamentally gives you a regular briefing based connected the emails you person and by connecting to your calendars to recognize your schedule. It besides lets you research topics, and similar NotebookLM, it volition make a podcast with AI hosts discussing the topic. You tin interact with the AI hosts astatine immoderate constituent successful time, inquire questions astir the topic, oregon petition them to explicate points successful a antithetic way.

What’s antithetic present is that Huxe lets users physique a “live station” of immoderate topic, similar tech news, sports, oregon adjacent personage gossip. After you perceive to a station, the app volition springiness you updates by tapping antithetic sources — adjuvant for pursuing processing news. There’s besides a personalized involvement feed, which automatically generates audio contented that mightiness involvement you.

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

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

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