Amazon acquires Bee, the portable Ai who records everything you say

Amazon has acquired the AI Startup bee bee, according to a LinkedIn job By the co-founder of Bee Maria de Lourdes Zollo. Amazon confirmed the acquisition of Techcrunch, but noted that the agreement was not yet concluded.

Bee, which raised $ 7 million last yearMade of both an autonomous Fitbit type bracelet (which costs $ 49.99, plus a subscription of $ 19 per month) and an Apple Watch application. The product records everything he understands – unless the user manually deactivates it – in order to listen to conversations to create reminders and lists of user tasks.

Bllo said to Techcrunch Last year, the company hopes to create a “cloud phone” or a mirror of your phone which gives access to the personal bee -to -bee apparatus and notifications of the user, which makes it possible to obtain reminders of events or to send messages.

“We believe that everyone should have access to a personal and ambient intelligence that looks less like a tool and more like a trustworthy. The one who helps you to think, recall and cross the world more freely ”, complaints on its website.

Other companies like Rabbit And Human you have have tried to make compatible portable devices like this, but have not found much success so far. But at a price of $ 50, Bee devices are more accessible to a curious consumer who does not want to make a big financial commitment. (The unhappy human pin was $ 499.)

A spokesperson for Amazon told Techcrunch that Bee employees had received offers to reach Amazon.

This acquisition indicates Amazon’s interest in developing laptops of laptops, a different avenue from its voice assistant products controlled by voice like its range of Echo speakers. Chatgpt Maker Openai works alone You have equipmentWhile Meta integrated her AA in her smart glasses. The apple is According to rumors To also work on smart glasses powered by AI.

These products are delivered with a number of safety and confidentiality risks, since they record everything around them; Policies of different companies will vary in terms of treatment of vocal recordings treated, stored and used for the formation of AI.

In his Current privacy policiesBEE says that users can delete their data at any time and that audio recordings are not saved, stored or used for AI training. However, the application stores the data that AI learns from the user, this is how it can work as an assistant.

Bee previously indicated that he planned to record only the votes of people who consented verbally. BEE also says that it works on functionality to allow users to define the limits – both on the subject and the location – which will automatically arouse the learning of the device. The company noted that it planned to build a disc to disc, which generally has less risk of confidentiality than data processing in the cloud.

However, it is not clear if these policies will change as Bee is integrated into Amazon – and Amazon has a mixed recording on the management of user data from the devices of its customers.

In the past, Amazon shared images With the security forces of the security cameras of the personal rings of people, neither the consent of the owner, nor a mandate. The ring was also installed complaint in 2023 brought by the Federal Trade Commission that employees and entrepreneurs had Wide access and without restriction to customers’ videos.