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The company formerly known as rewind ai (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33421751) is going all-in on wearable devices up-to and including a label mic/pendant that will plug into a ton of AI services (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37744213).
As a result, they're changing their name to limitless and also moving a ton of stuff off device and into the cloud.
I really wish someone would make a pendant like this which is focussed on local-only use. It could connect to a mobile app or computer for transcription and summarisation, but using local models or an API key that the use chooses. I would pay serious money for a device high quality that did this (>$500) if it was backed by open-source platform/infrastructure for processing the managing the audio. Even better if it wa…
It doesn't seem like this should actually be that difficult to build an open-source version of, modulo battery-life concerns.
I really wish someone would make a pendant like this which is focussed on local-only use. It could connect to a mobile app or computer for transcription and summarisation, but using local models or an API key that the use chooses. I would pay serious money for a device high quality that did this (>$500) if it was backed by open-source platform/infrastructure for processing the managing the audio. Even better if it wa…
MKBHD asked his pin what he was looking at, and in the time humane’s pin to take a pic, send it up to the cloud, decide what model is most appropriate, and narrate a really long (possibly hallucinatory) answer; he simply took his phone out and google lens answered correctly with a lot of time to spare.
I know these are first-gen products and the fact that this one would presumably have a much higher degree of context on my personal life might make this better (without speaking to privacy implications). Still, over-reliance on the cloud and the fact that this doesn’t interface with my phone (where most reminders, alarms, messages, etc, happen) is going to make these devices a tough sell.
The ugly thing is that this vast privacy invasion and resell has become so pervasively normalized that even the fucking services which you pay for almost universally sell off to others ad nauseam anything about you that isn't nailed down.
Since this thing offers to give you personalized AI based on everything you see and do in your day, that's some very private, juicy info to resell.
Seems to be hugged to death currently: „Sorry! Our app is melting due to overwhelming load Error fetching: TypeError: Load failed“
We are so honored this hit the front page of HN!
Here's the video announcement: https://twitter.com/dsiroker/status/1779857843895599383
And timestamps to moments in the video you might be interested in:
0:06 Reveal
0:48 Why Limitless?
1:39 Demo
3:05 Pendant
4:27 Privacy
5:23 Confidential Cloud
6:36 Rewind
7:12 Roadmap
9:25 Vision
It sounds like this is killing/replacing Rewind
We are shifting our focus to Limitless because we think it’s a better approach to solving the same problems. In fact, we plan to implement many of your favorite Rewind features directly in Limitless.
We are so bullish on Limitless that we decided to change our company name from Rewind to Limitless.
That said, we have no plans to stop supporting Rewind.
You can even use both products side-by-side and decide for yourself which one you like better.