Ambi, a new AI app that listens to users in the background, has raised $26 million in funding across multiple rounds. The app, founded by former Plaud executive Peter Mo, aims to provide real-time intelligence and insights to users. The funding round was led by Luminous Ventures, which has backed companies like Meituan and Unitree Robotics, and original design manufacturer (ODM) Huaqin.
The app acts like a meeting notetaker, but with the ability to capture context all day. Ambi's AI agent can proactively give users suggestions or surface relevant knowledge during meetings, based on their calendar, meetings, knowledge base, and web data. Users can also start a task on one device and continue it on another.
Ambi's co-founder and CEO, Peter Mo, says the company is building Ambi to use AI anytime and anywhere. "The way we interact with intelligence is limited. Often the intelligence is trapped on the screen, and if you use hardware like Plaud, you need to wait for recording to transfer to the phone, upload to the cloud, and get intelligence after processing. That's why we are building Ambi to use AI anytime and anywhere," Mo told TechCrunch.
The company has ambitions to capture more information, with its upcoming desktop app able to look at the work users do and store important parts in its memory to give more personalized suggestions. Ambi is also planning to launch its own hardware device, which will have a screen, a speaker, a camera, and microphones to capture context and display information.
However, Ambi's launch comes amidst growing concerns around AI devices that don't have enough indicators to suggest they are capturing data on people around the user. It's not clear if Ambi's apps or its upcoming device will have enough indicators to alert third parties that their conversations are being recorded if the user doesn't disclose their use of Ambi's tech.
Mo says users can turn off ambient data capture on Ambi's apps and devices at any time, and the feature is off by default. The startup says it doesn't store any recordings of users and encrypts the data, but it didn't specify what kind of encryption it uses. Despite these measures, the onus of declaring ambient capture is still on the users.
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