AI的核心承诺之一是，它越了解一个人，就越能帮助他们完成任务和提出适当建议，如果你相信这些技术公司，就需要应用和装置随时倾听、观看或记录用户的活动，收集所有可能的背景。
任何不断收集你数据的事物，显然都涉及到隐私和数据安全。 但初创企业正在建造这些无阻的应用软件
前普劳德执行官彼得莫建安比做类似的事情。 该应用旨在通过不断倾听人们的声音，为人们提供实时智能和洞察力。
周一称公司拥有由Luminous Ventures领导的多轮融资回合的融资 2600万美元，该公司支持了Meituan和Unitree Robotics等公司，以及原设计制造公司(ODM)华勤。
Ambi也为iPhone,Macs和Apple Watch发布应用。 这些应用程序表现为会见便条接收者，但用户可以选择让其监听，这样可以全天捕捉上下文。
会议记录公司一直在努力根据它们在谈话中收集的摘要和行动项目，并利用软件系统的众多连接器，使接线任务自动化。 安比希望通过让其agent在会议期间开始工作来进一步推进这项工作。
公司承诺，AI agent会根据你的日程、会议、知识基础和网络数据，主动向您提供建议，用户也可以在一个设备上启动任务，并在另一个设备上继续。
“我们与情报的互动方式是有限的。 通常情报被困在屏幕上，如果使用Plaud这样的硬件，需要等待录音才能转到电话，上传到云端，处理后获得情报。 公司联合创始人兼首席执行官Mo告诉TechCrunch
公司有捕捉更多信息的野心。 其即将到来的桌面应用程序将能够查看用户的工作，并存储其内存中的重要部分，以给出更个性化的建议。 小鸟或小米米等Apps已经做了类似的事情。
启动器还计划给发布自己的硬件设备，其中将有一个屏幕，一个扬声器，一个相机，还有麦克风来捕捉上下文和显示信息。
隐私权问题
Ambi的发布在AI设备上越来越担心，并不清楚Ambi的应用或其即将到来的设备是否会有足够的指标提醒第三方，如果用户不披露他们使用Ambi的技术，他们的谈话将会被记录下来。
一些会议记录员甚至被起诉，因为他们的技术记录了人们未经他们同意的对话和数据。 此外，最近发布的Apple的语音情报功能不断翻录言论，有融资隐私关注。
Mo 称，用户可以随时关闭安比应用程序和设备上的环境数据捕获，功能默认关闭。 称的启动程序并不存储任何用户的录音，尽管采取了这些措施，但宣布环境捕捉的责任仍然在用户身上。 他将此列为全行业问题。
“我们必须通知我们的用户，他们必须告诉其他人环境捕捉情况。 我们作为一个行业，还没有解决这个问题。 我们试图把关于披露的信息放在每一个可能的地方，但如果用户试图隐藏捕获
Ambi目前在旧金山，北京，上海和深圳的办事处有50多名工作人员。 该公司正在聘请其上市功能和AI工程师从事语音识别模型的工作。
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One of the core promises of AI is that the more it knows about a person, the better it will be able to assist them with tasks and make appropriate suggestions, which, if you’ll believe the tech companies, requires apps and devices to listen, watch or record users’ activity all the time and gather all possible context.
There’s obviously privacy and data security concerns with anything that’s collecting data about you continuously. But startups are building such apps undeterred anyway, arming themselves with the belief that the market for personalized assistance is big enough to swallow such concerns.
Former Plaud exec Peter Mo is building Ambi to do something similar. The app aims to provide real-time intelligence and insights to people by listening to them all the time.
The company said on Monday that it has raised $26 million across multiple funding rounds led by Luminous Ventures, which has backed companies like Meituan and Unitree Robotics, and Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) Huaqin.
Ambi is also releasing apps for iPhones, Macs and Apple Watch. These apps act like meeting note-takers, but users can choose to have them listening so they can capture context all day.
Meeting note-taking companies have been working to automate tasks that follow once calls are done, based on the summaries and action items they gather during the conversation, and using multitudes of connectors to software systems. Ambi wants to take this a step further by having its agent start the work during the meeting itself.
The company’s promise is that its AI agent can proactively give you suggestions or surface relevant knowledge while you are in a meeting, based on your calendar, meetings, knowledge base, and web data. Users can also start a task on one device and continue it on another.
“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,” the company’s co-founder and CEO, Mo, told TechCrunch.
The company has ambitions to capture more information. Its upcoming desktop app will be able to look at the work that users do and store important parts in its memory to give more personalized suggestions. Apps like Littlebird or Minimi already do something similar.
The startup 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.
Question of privacy
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 is 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.
Some meeting note-takers have even been sued because their tech recorded people’s conversation and data without their consent. Plus, the recent release of Apple’s Voice Intelligence feature, which transcribes speech continuously, has raised privacy concerns.
Mo said that 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 said 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. He classified this as an industry-wide problem.
“We have to inform our users that they have to tell others about ambient capture. We, as an industry, haven’t solved this problem [of disclosure]. We have tried to put the information about disclosure in every place possible, but if users try to hide the capture, we can’t just solve the problem,” he said.
Ambi currently has over 50 staff across offices in San Francisco, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. The company is hiring for its go-to-market function and AI engineers for working on speech recognition models.
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