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Your Next AI Wearable Will Listen to Everything All the Time
The latest crop of AI-enabled wearables like Bee AI and Omi listen to your conversations to help organize your life. They are also normalizing embedded microphones that are always on.
It wasn't storing audio like a typical recorder app, but it processed my conversations, then gave me personalized to-do lists and readable summaries of my in-person chats. The wearable hardware leading this space is often cheap—Bee AI's watch is just $50, and Omi's stick-on bead is $89—but the real magic is in the software, which often requires a subscription as it taps into multiple large language models to analyze your conversations. Sutin says everything captured is “treated as maximally sensitive,” and he ensures me the company's business model does not include plans to monetize the collected data, and that nothing will be shared with third parties.
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