- Taya is the most promising one to date
- Bee is the best one for now though since Taya is not out until summer 2026. It has 2 major flaws though:
- Wearable is not practical (not water resistant for e.g.)
- Omi is the best open-source version
If I was able to start an AI wearable company, here are the 3 things I’d do:
- win people’s trust with a privacy-first approach, even if the tech is not the best
- make it open-source like omi.me
- Only record when the user activates it with a simple click like bee.computer and Taya
- Make the wearable send the audio straight to the phone through BLE (bluetooth).
- The audio or transcript never leaves the phone.
- Store a LLM in user’s devices and process the audio with it
- Make it aesthetic to wear. Make the user want to wear it even if there was no AI aspect to it
- Meta raybans is the best example of that.
- I’d focus on what I’m good at (AI, UX, and context engineering) and let them focus on what they’re good at (aesthetic hardware)
- Don’t make it look like a new season of black mirror If you’re building in this space or looking to invest in someone working in this space, feel free to dm