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Bee AI: The Wearable Ambient Agent
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2024 was a very challenging year for AI Hardware. After the buzz of CES last January, 2024 was marked by the meteoric rise and even harder fall of AI Wearables companies like Rabbit and Humane, with an assist from a pre-wallpaper-app MKBHD.
Even Friend.com, the first to launch in the AI pendant category, and which spurred Rewind AI to rebrand to Limitless and follow in their footsteps, ended up delaying their wearable ship date and launching an experimental website chatbot version.
We have been cautiously excited about this category, keeping tabs on most of the top entrants, including Omi and Compass.
However, to date the biggest winner still standing from the AI Wearable wars is Bee AI, founded by today's guests Maria and Ethan.
Bee is an always on hardware device with beamforming microphones, 7 day battery life and a mute button, that can be worn as a wristwatch or a clip-on pin, backed by an incredible transcription, diarization and very long context memory processing pipeline that helps you to remember your day, your todos, and even perform actions by operating a virtual cloud phone.
This is one of the most advanced, production ready, personal AI agents we've ever seen, so we were excited to be their first podcast appearance. We met Bee when we ran the world's first Personal AI meetup in April last year.
As a user of Bee (and not an investor! just a friend!) it’s genuinely been a joy to use, and we were glad to take advantage of the opportunity to ask hard questions about the privacy and legal/ethical side of things as much as the AI and Hardware engineering side of Bee. We hope you enjoy the episode and tune in next Friday for Bee’s first conference talk: Building Perfect Memory.
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Show Notes
* Ethan Sutin, Maria de Lourdes Zollo
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Timestamps
* 00:00:00 Introductions and overview of Bee Computer
* 00:01:58 Personal context and use cases for Bee
* 00:03:02 Origin story of Bee and the founders' background
* 00:06:56 Evolution from app to hardware device
* 00:09:54 Short-term value proposition for users
* 00:12:17 Demo of Bee's functionality
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