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Hume AI
Empathic AI to serve human wellbeing
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- SaaS
- Wellbeing
- Civic Center, New York, NY
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Company mission
To ensure that artificial intelligence is built to serve human goals and emotional well-being.
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Our take
Hume AI was founded by a researcher in semantic space theory - a data-driven, computational approach to emotional science that has been pivotal in the development of artificial intelligence.
The company has developed products that help AI become more emotionally intelligent, effectively fine-tuning everything from digital assistants to online creative tools to respond appropriately to human emotion. To do this, it uses complex measurements to analyse vocal timbre, pitch and facial expressions.
Whilst it's a young company, Hume AI has raised considerable funding thanks to its much-sought-after approach to AI development. There’s a high demand for its product and funding rounds are being used to scale and meet it.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company values
- Beneficence - AI should be deployed only if its benefits substantially outweigh its costs
- Empathy - AI privy to cues of our emotions should serve our emotional well-being
- Scientific Legitimacy - Applications of AI should be supported by collaborative, rigorous, inclusive science
- Emotional Primacy - AI should be prevented from treating human emotion as a means to an end
- Inclusivity - The benefits of AI should be shared by people from diverse backgrounds
- Transparency - People affected by AI should have enough data to make decisions about its use
- Consent - AI should be deployed only with the informed consent of the people whom it affects
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2024
$50m
SERIES B
Jan 2023
$12.7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $75.7m
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Leadership
Alan Cowen
(CEO & Chief Scientist)Previously a Scientific Researcher at Google and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California Berkeley. Was also a Scientific Advisor at Facebook and BlackThorn Therapeutics.
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