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Privacy-enhanced wearable AI: Bee AI

AuthorRae Li

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PublishedJuly 30, 2024

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OUR TAKE Bee AI, a startup focused on developing a wearable AI assistant, has closed a new round of funding to advance its innovative project. The device aims to provide highly personalised services such as smart reminders, note organisation and contextually relevant suggestions by continuously listening and learning from users’ behavioural patterns. While pursuing technological advancements, Bee AI also emphasises respect and protection of user privacy, promising to take steps to ensure that non-user voices are not recorded prior to the product launch, in order to safeguard users’ privacy rights. With the upcoming launch of the product, Bee AI demonstrates its potential for innovation in the field of wearable technology and its strong commitment to user privacy protection. -Rae Li, BTW reporter Bee AI is an emerging startup focused on developing wearable AI assistant technology. The company recently closes a $7 million funding round led by Exor to further develop its products which learns a user’s habits and preferences by listening to them to provide personalised services. Bee AI’s device is designed to be a wearable assistant, aiming to reduce reliance on a phone’s microphone to provide a more convenient user experience.

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Maria de Lourdes Zollo, co-founder and CEO of Bee AI, emphasises that although the company’s core is software, they have developed an accompanying hardware device in order to provide a smoother experience. The device, which is currently in beta testing, performs basic reminder and note-taking functions and plans to offer deeper personalised services such as reading notifications, composing emails or tweets, and providing shopping suggestions based on the user’s needs. Bee AI plans to begin accepting orders by Black Friday, with pricing at $49 and a monthly subscription fee of $19. Investors have expressed confidence in Bee AI’s team and vision for their ability to succeed in the wearable technology and AI. Also read: AI innovations set to revolutionise Paris Olympic Games Also read: South Korea aids small businesses amid e-commerce crisis

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Bee AI has raised $7 million to develop its wearable AI assistant which learns by listening to the user and provides personalised services such as reminders and notes.
The company plans to launch the product by Black Friday and has promised to stop using non-consenting non-user voices before launch to protect privacy.