Amazon is shopping for AI bracelet maker Bee in a serious transfer to dominate the subsequent wave of private tech.
The wristbands — which price $50 — file every little thing you say, even whenever you’re speaking to your self, and sync along with your telephone by way of Bluetooth.
Powered by AI fashions from Anthropic, Google and Meta, Bee turns your day right into a searchable database, creating personalised to-do lists and even monitoring what number of instances you swear.
Unlike Amazon’s Alexa units — which are supposed to pay attention solely after a ‘wake phrase’ — Bee’s bracelets are at all times on except switched off, giving them entry to much more person information to coach AI fashions.
Bee CEO Maria de Lourdes Zollo mentioned she was ‘excited’ to be becoming a member of Amazon and to convey ‘actually private, agentic AI to much more prospects.’
‘When we began Bee, we imagined a world the place AI is actually private, the place your life is known and enhanced by expertise that learns with you,’ she wrote on LinkedIn.
The deal, nonetheless pending closure, comes as wearable AI devices flood the market.
Meta is pushing its Ray-Ban AI glasses and Google has launched Gemini-powered earbuds.
Bee bracelets at present price $50, pairing to customers’ telephones utilizing Bluetooth
Bee CEO Maria de Lourdes Zollo mentioned she was ‘excited’ to be becoming a member of Amazon
Amazon’s newest acquisition marks a shift ahead from its Echo and Alexa merchandise
Because Bee is at all times listening, it might accumulate much more information per person — feeding the fixed stream of data wanted to coach massive language fashions.
A spokesperson for Amazon instructed the Daily Mail {that a} deal had been signed with Bee however that the settlement is but to shut.
Alongside the proliferation of recent devices the rise of AI has already led to elevated automation and consequent layoffs.
Microsoft will eradicate thousand of positions this month because it makes deeper investments within the tech.
Amazon and Ford’s CEOs have additionally mentioned they’re planning on slashing workers to make use of extra generative fashions.
Once-dominant Intel additionally introduced plans to chop round 2,400 jobs.