Your discrete AI assistant

  • Context-aware dialogue

    Asks quick questions anytime without needing to explain the background—Buddie already knows your personal context.

  • Hands-free interaction

    Enjoy effortless, hands-free voice interaction with cutting-edge LLMs (like ChatGPT) without taking out your phone or pressing buttons.

  • Meeting support

    Answers your questions, gives hints, summarizes key points from meetings and calls, and keeps your to-do list up to date.

  • Personalized assistance

    Listens and learns your preferences, offering tailored suggestions and recapping memorable moments in your daily life.

  • Meeting Summaries

    Buddie transcribes and summarizes your meetings, calls, and conversations, capturing key points and action items. These summaries are stored and can be easily retrieved anytime you need them.

  • Instant hints

    With a single tap, Buddie provides you with information relevant to the current conversation. For example, if your boss uses an unfamiliar word, Buddie instantly gives its definition.

  • Works with your current meeting styles

    Supports phone calls, online meetings, and offline meetings using Zoom, and Microsoft Teams, any meeting app supporting earbuds.

  • Always-Ready Assistant

    If someone tells a joke you don’t understand, you can ask Buddie to explain it without needing to repeat the joke or provide context.

  • Daily Recap

    Each evening, Buddie helps you reflect on the day’s events, highlighting memorable moments and engaging conversations, and reviewing your to-dos, so you can celebrate your wins, learn from your losses, and close the day without half-forgotten loose ends cluttering your thoughts.

  • Offers tailored suggestions

    Buddie learns your preferences and needs, offering personalized suggestions right when you need them—whether it’s finding a restaurant, preparing a gift for friends, or creating a shopping list.

New Era of AI Interaction

Buddie’s Technology

  • Always Listening so its Context-Aware

    Buddie is constantly attentive, capturing both online and offline conversations to understand your personal needs and provide timely, context-aware assistance. Context is the difference between being able to ask AI about an encyclopedia and being able to ask it about your life. Empowered by patent-pending data compression technology, low-power wireless communication, and intelligent power management technologies, Buddie supports 8 hours of always-on listening on a single battery charge, and just 10 minutes of charging enables 3 hours of use.

  • Effortless AI access

    Buddie offers effortless access to in-house and third-party AI cloud services, such as ChatGPT—all with just your voice—anywhere, anytime.

  • Privacy-first design

    Privacy is at the core of Buddie’s design. All audio processing occurs on your smartphone, with audio data deleted within seconds and transcripts encrypted locally. Private data don’t leave the phone unless you explicitly request it and you can easily delete your transcripts.

Buddie’s Hardware Feature

  • Comfortable

    Weighing only 4.3g (the weight of a grape) with a semi-in-ear fit for all-day comfort.

  • Long Battery Life

    8 hours of always-on listening per charge.

  • Sleek Design

    Minimalistic and discreet, perfect for both professional and casual settings.

Service Subscription Plan

  • Buddie is a revolutionary context-aware human-AI interface that supports AI services from third-party providers. To accommodate different needs, we offer a range of subscription plans.

    Subscription Plan: The three premium plans include built-in integration with GPT-4 to enhance your interaction experience. In the future, we’ll support additional models. Any unused voice interaction time from your monthly quota will roll over to the next month, ensuring you get the most value from your subscription.

    Subscription-free Plan: This version works with third-party LLM apps, providing free access to LLM services. It also allows users to enhance their interaction experience by integrating Buddie with their own LLM models through an open API interface. We provide simple, step-by-step instructions to guide you through the integration process.

    Free Trial: For every Buddie purchase, we include one month of free Basic subscription service, which is included in the $40 price.

    Below are the details of our subscription plans, along with a comparison to other AI model subscriptions.

Our Vision

  • Buddie is being developed by academic researchers in wearable electronics, AI, and human-centered computing. Steve Jobs revolutionized mobile phones by defining the touch screen as their primary interface. We believe that in the AI era, voice is the next transformative interface, and context-aware earbuds have the ideal form factor—enabling effortless access AI services hands-free, anytime, and anywhere.

  • The team developing Buddie has the following goals: making AI services widely and seemlessly accessible in day-to-day life, giving innovators the freedom to experiment, and respecting user privacy. To this end, we are working with high-quality yet cost-efficient manufacturers and pricing Buddie at production cost. We’re also open sourcing Buddie’s mobile app to allow other developers to experiment and share new ideas and verify that Buddie respects privacy. Buddie is designed to protect private data, which doesn’t leave the phone unless explicitly requested by the user and users can easily delete their transcripts.

Open-source Community

  • We’re primarily a team of researchers, although we have commercialized several technology products in the past (we were involved in the smartphone and wearables revolutions). We think efficient wearable AI interfaces will revolutionize computing and we want them to be open instead of walled gardens. Now is the time for invention and creativity so we’re focused on getting Buddie earbuds and its open-source app into many people’s hands as possible so they can experiment with it and try new ideas. We’re selling the Kickstarter product at production cost to make it broadly accessible. We’re also open sourcing the Buddie app, so developers can try and share new ideas for AI control and interaction. Designed for developers and users, Buddie offers unmatched flexibility, allowing customization through features like language model swapping. Through our open-source ecosystem and plugin marketplace, individual innovations become shared solutions that benefit the whole community. By contributing to Buddie, you’re helping to make open, privacy-focused, seemless, conversational AI assistance a reality.

Lilys

“We believe that earbuds will become the dominant interface for natural language AI due to their ideal positioning for clear, natural conversations. Buddie’s design combines futuristic aesthetics with minimalist versatility, crafted from premium materials that are lightweight, comfortable, pleasant to the touch, and perfect for all-day use. It enables hands-free, on-the-go interaction with AI, making conversations feel as natural as speaking to a person.”

Robert

“Without context awareness, it’s like walking into a room where others are in the middle of a conversation. It’s hard to figure out what’s going on. If you were around the whole conversation, everything would make sense. Buddie uses patent-pending compression technologies to enable always-on operation so it can give AI assistants context. That’s the difference between asking about your life and asking what’s in an encyclopedia.

Buddie is designed for privacy. A system that transmits your voice to a remote server is safe only if its current and future owners are ethical. Buddie deletes audio data immediately after transcription, and they’re never transmitted to servers. Your transcripts and context information don’t leave your phone unless you specifically request it, for example to get help from a third-party AI, and you can delete them whenever you want.”

Yuhu

“We are working with the most reliable and cost-effective manufacturers in the world to produce Buddie. We have already determined Buddie’s electronics bill-of-materials, its molds are done, the printed circuit board is ready for manufacture, and we’re starting a small-scale run of hundreds of prototypes in two weeks.”

Jaric

“Buddie is an open and accessible platform. We want to make it easy for researchers and independent developers to try and share new ideas so we’re open sourcing the Budddie smartphone app. That also makes it easy for security researchers to verify that it protects privacy. We also want to make Buddie available to nearly everybody, so we’re setting the price so low that we expect to just break even on the Kickstarter campaign.”