Former Plaud exec raises $26M for AI app that listens to you in the background
Former Plaud executive Peter Mo raised $26 million for Ambi, an always-listening AI assistant.
Ambi, founded by former Plaud executive Peter Mo, raised $26 million across rounds led by Luminous Ventures and ODM Huaqin. It is releasing iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch apps that can listen all day and suggest actions during meetings using calendar, knowledge-base, and web context. Ambient capture is off by default, recordings are not stored, and data is encrypted, though the encryption method was not specified. Ambi has more than 50 employees in San Francisco, Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen and plans a desktop memory feature plus its own capture device.
- Raised $26 million in rounds led by Luminous Ventures and Huaqin
- iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch apps can listen throughout the day
- Ambient capture is off by default and recordings are not stored
- Planned device adds a screen, speaker, camera, and microphones
- More than 50 staff work in the US and China
- Products
- Ambi
- Organizations
- AmbiLuminous VenturesHuaqinPlaud
- Countries
- United StatesChina
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Ambi is releasing apps for iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch that enables ambient capture
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