Bee AI co-founder Ethan Sutin contrasts Bee's product marketing strategy with Rabbit's high-profile CES 2024 launch.
Opinion
Sutin: The Humane AI Pin failed due to weight and overheating
“I think the Humane is like pretty incredible. Some of the engineering they did, but like, it wasn't kind of geared towards solving the problem. It was just it's too heavy. The swappable batteries is too much demand. The heat, the thermals is like too much.”
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Sutin: Traditional speech-to-text ASR will soon be obsolete and uninvestable
“Cause it's very clear that like all ASR, all speech to text is going to be pretty obsolete pretty soon. So like investing into that is probably kind of a dead end cause it's just going to be obsolete.”
Insight
Sutin: Bee replaced traditional RAG embeddings with massively parallel small models
“What we've learned is, like, doing the traditional, like, embedding and RAG is suboptimal. We kind of built our own using small models to do really massively parallel retrieval, which I think is going to be maybe more common in the future.”
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Sutin: Smartphones will dominate until affordable smart glasses arrive in 5+ years
“We think that the phone's just so dominant and it will be until we have the next generation, which is not going to be for five, you know, maybe some Orion type glasses that are cheap enough and like light enough, like that's going to take a long time before wi…”
Disclosure
Sutin: Bee executes agent actions using cloud-hosted Android phones
“Is an Android cloud phone. So it's going to be able to, you know, that has access to all my accounts. So we're going to abstract this away in the execution environments, not really important, but like we can go into technically why Android is actually a pretty…”
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Sutin: Social norms will adapt to ambient AI hardware within five years
“People's behaviors and expectations will change, whether that's like, you know, something that is going to happen now or in five years, it's probably in that range.”