Friend, it’s an AI-powered necklace that you can wear, hanging around your neck to become your constant companion. It looks like a pendant, but it’s actually always-listening pendant that keeps you company. Featuring soft, round little shape that rests right to your heart, it looks just like an AirTag, this little friend would share its opinion with you through text messages or push notifications on the phone that it’s paired to.
On the down side, this device has “Always Listening” tagline, to those want their privacy, you can’t wear this pendant around your neck at all time. Friend is equipped with onboard microphone that listens to everything happening around its wearer. Tap and hold to ask question but sometimes, it will send messages to comment about conversation that you just had.
Powered by Anthropic AI’s Claude 3.5 large language model, it can engage in helpful conversation, offer you encouragement, or even comment on how bad you are at a video game. The battery life gives you around 15 hours of companion, it comes with an array of colors that look similar to color palette of first Apple iMac computers.
Instead of building robot, Avi Schiffmann, the founder of Friend, wants to build something different. Instead of creating humane AI to automate tasks and increase productivity, he wanted to provide human with companion. Because at the end of the day, when productivity is over, no one cares. One of important things in your life is people. Friend is an AI technology that offers purely companionship, overtime, it develops personality that complements user and always there to gas you up, chat about your day, or simply just have a good conversation with a friend.
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