Apple hires Huxe staff and licenses AI podcast technology

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 10 Oct, 21:00 · Archive

Apple has agreed to hire employees from AI audio startup Huxe and license its technology in a deal disclosed to the European Commission.

Apple has reached an agreement to recruit employees from Huxe, an AI audio startup, and license its technology. The arrangement was disclosed to the European Commission on 9 June. Apple will have the right to make employment offers to certain Huxe employees and will receive a non-exclusive license to the company's intellectual property. The deal is not an outright acquisition.

Huxe was founded by Raiza Martin, Jason Spielman and Stephen Hughes, who previously worked on the AI-generated podcast features in Google's NotebookLM, recently renamed Gemini Notebook. Huxe's app generated personalised audio briefings based on users' emails, calendars and interests, as well as podcasts about topics they wanted to explore. Listeners could interrupt the AI hosts to ask questions or request different explanations.

Huxe announced on 21 May that it was shutting down. The company removed its app from the Apple and Google stores, halted service and deleted user data, with the team saying it would not continue development of the product. The startup's audio service ended on 28 May. The filing does not confirm whether any Huxe employees have actually been hired by Apple.

How it is being reported

• Apple discloses deal to hire team and license tech from personalized podcast startup HuxeIs Apple hoping to get into the AI-generated podcast business?TechCrunch · 10 Oct, 20:50
• Apple Signs Hiring and Licensing Deal With AI Podcast Startup HuxeApple has reached an agreement to recruit employees from Huxe and license the AI audio startup's technology, according to a new European Commission filing . The filing says Apple will have the right to make employment offers to certain Huxe employees and receive a non-exclusive license to the company's intellectual property, so this isn't an outright acquisition of the company. Huxe was founded by former Google NotebookLM team members Raiza Martin, Jason Spielman, and Stephen Hughes. NotebookLM – since renamed Gemini Notebook – is Google's AI research tool, which is best known for its…MacRumors · 9 Oct, 09:44

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