SoundHound AI (SOUN) Stock Slides as OASYS Launch Puts Q1 Earnings in Focus

SoundHound AI heads into the new week carrying Friday’s 20.1% jump, with traders piling in on hopes that the voice-AI specialist can show real first-quarter demand for conversational artificial intelligence.

SoundHound AI surged 20.1% to $9.56 on Friday, thrusting the voice-AI player into the spotlight just days ahead of its Q1 earnings. That price tag put the Santa Clara, California outfit at roughly $3.94 billion. U.S. markets were closed Saturday morning.

Shares of SoundHound AI climbed roughly 3% early Monday in U.S. trading, after the voice AI firm announced plans to demo a fully on-device automotive assistant at Nvidia’s GTC event in San Jose this week. The stock hovered near $7.53 following the news. SoundHound described the system as running “entirely on the edge”—industry parlance for handling processing locally, not via remote cloud servers.

SoundHound AI shares swung on Monday after an upbeat note from H.C. Wainwright put the stock back in motion following CES chatter. The Nasdaq-listed stock was up about 0.3% at $11.79 in late morning trade after earlier rising as much as 9.4%.

SoundHound AI, Inc. shares rose 6.7% to $11.75 at Friday’s close, after swinging between $11.15 and $12.31 in the session. About 39.3 million shares changed hands.

Shares of SoundHound AI Inc were up about 9% at $12.01 in midday trading on Friday after hitting an intraday high of $12.305. The stock traded as low as $11.15, with about 27.5 million shares changing hands.

SoundHound AI Inc. has become one of the most closely watched “pure-play” artificial intelligence names on Wall Street thanks to its voice-first agentic AI platform that powers everything from restaurant drive‑thrus and call centers to in‑vehicle assistants and banking bots.