Overview

• New reporting describes a palm-sized device that can sit on a table or be carried, with microphones, a speaker and at least one camera, possibly several, but no screen.
• The gadget is expected to stay active to gather audio and video context throughout the day and build a persistent virtual memory to surpass today’s smart speakers.
• Key interaction choices remain unsettled, including the assistant’s voice, tone and when it should join or exit conversations to avoid being intrusive or overly chatty.
• How continuous recording would address privacy concerns is not yet defined, and the market has proved unforgiving for similar products such as Friend and Humane’s AI Pin.
• Compute remains a major hurdle, with questions over on-device versus cloud processing and reports that OpenAI must expand capacity even for current services as it targets a first product next year.