New York, Feb 25, 2026, 08:07 EST — Premarket
- SoundHound AI shares rose 3.1% in premarket trading after a 6.8% jump in the prior session.
- The company on Tuesday unveiled a voice-powered “Sales Assist” agent for retail teams, with demos slated for MWC Barcelona in early March.
- Investors are looking ahead to SoundHound’s fourth-quarter and full-year results due after the market close on Thursday.
SoundHound AI Inc shares were up 3.1% at $8.62 in premarket trading on Wednesday, putting the stock back in focus a day after the voice AI company announced a new retail product ahead of earnings. (Public)
The stock ended Tuesday up 6.8% at $8.36, after swinging between $7.74 and $8.48. About 36.5 million shares changed hands. (Yahoo Finance)
Why this matters now: SoundHound reports results after the bell on Thursday, and traders have been quick to punish or reward small-cap AI names on any hint of demand, cash burn or guidance.
The company has said it will release 2025 fourth-quarter and full-year financial results on Feb. 26 after market close, then hold a conference call at 5:00 p.m. ET hosted by CEO Keyvan Mohajer and CFO Nitesh Sharan. (SoundHound AI)
On Tuesday, SoundHound said it launched “Sales Assist,” a voice-powered AI agent aimed at helping in-store staff pitch deals, add-ons and savings in real time. The product will debut at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on March 2–5, and SoundHound said it processed nearly 30 million AI-driven customer interactions for telecom and retail businesses globally in 2025. “Truly effective, enterprise grade voice interaction is only now becoming possible,” Michael Anderson, the company’s EVP of enterprise AI, said in the release. (GlobeNewswire)
The pitch is speed. The system listens with customer consent, then pushes prompts to an associate’s device — upgrades, bundles, compliance steps — without the employee hopping between screens.
SoundHound calls the approach “agentic AI,” a label for software that can take steps to complete a task instead of just answering questions. It’s a crowded lane, with bigger tech and enterprise software groups also trying to sell automation into retail and telecom.
Still, investors will be looking for a clean line from product talk to paid deployments. New launches can draw attention without moving revenue in the near term.
There’s also the usual risk in the tape: premarket trading can be thin, and AI-linked stocks have been prone to sharp reversals. A cautious outlook on Thursday, or signs customers are stretching budgets, could clip the rally fast.
The next hard catalyst is Thursday’s results and call, where investors will watch for revenue trends, margins and any update on enterprise demand tied to the new Sales Assist rollout. After that, attention shifts to what the company shows — and who it meets — at MWC Barcelona in the first week of March.
