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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.”
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.”
Wang: ChatGPT cannot match hardware agents without an always-on recording layer
“Just being able to have wake words, like enables some form of sort of voice agent, agent features that even chat GPT can never have because they don't have the recording layer.”
Sutin: Bee intentionally avoided an over-hyped Rabbit-style CES launch
“We didn't want to do like a big over hypey promised kind of rabbit launch. Cause I mean, they did hats off to them, like on the presentation and everything, obviously, but like, you know, we want to let the product kind of speak for itself and like, get it out…”
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…”
Sutin: Phone-based continuous audio fails due to mic monopolization and calls
“If you wanted to, like, have, like, continuous understanding of audio with your phone, it would monopolize your microphone, it would get interrupted by calls, and you'd have to remember to turn it on, and, like, that little bit of friction is actually, like, a…”
Sutin: Bee deletes raw audio and focuses its summaries on the user
“We process the audio. And nothing has persisted, and then it's summarized with the speaker identification focusing on the user.”
Sutin: Continuous wearable video requires impractically large batteries for radio transmission
“The radio is actually the thing that takes up the majority of the power, so you would really have to have quite a, like, an unacceptably, like, large and heavy battery to do it continuously all day.”
Sutin: Bee is adding geofencing and 'concept fencing' to control recording
“So we're adding certain features like geofencing, just like at this location, it's just never active and even like concept fencing. So you can be like, if these topics come up, then like don't, no capturing of that.”
Sutin: Bee AI is testing a beta integration with WhatsApp
“So, you know, one integration we have that is in beta is with WhatsApp.”