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Pendant necklace (~2 inches). Always-on listening feeds a persistent AI companion persona. Companionship-framed rather than productivity / recall. Cloud LLM backend; no detailed encryption claims. Full Friend record →

  1. 1 Omi Voice-first / wearable AI memory

    also in Voice-first / wearable AI memory · same storage (vector) · same retrieval (similarity) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (episode) · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 13k released 2026-10-22 MIT Compare with Friend →

  2. 2 Otter.ai Voice-first / wearable AI memory

    also in Voice-first / wearable AI memory · same storage (vector) · same retrieval (similarity) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (episode) · also offered managed

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Friend →

  3. 3 Read.ai Voice-first / wearable AI memory

    also in Voice-first / wearable AI memory · same storage (vector) · same retrieval (similarity) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (episode) · also offered managed

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Friend →

  4. 4 Bee Voice-first / wearable AI memory ⚠ acquired — acquired by Amazon

    also in Voice-first / wearable AI memory · same storage (vector) · same retrieval (similarity) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (episode) · also offered managed

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ? Compare with Friend →

  5. 5 Limitless Voice-first / wearable AI memory ⚠ acquired — acquired by Meta

    also in Voice-first / wearable AI memory · same storage (vector) · same retrieval (similarity) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (episode) · also offered managed

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Friend →

  6. 6 π0.5 (Physical Intelligence) Vertical / domain-specific AI memory

    same storage (vector) · same retrieval (similarity) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (episode) · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ? ★ 13k Apache-2.0 (openpi repo; repo also ships a… Compare with Friend →

  7. 7 Memori Dedicated memory layers

    same storage (vector) · same retrieval (similarity) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (episode) · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 17k released 2026-05-28 Apache-2.0 Compare with Friend →

  8. 8 Memories.ai LVMM 2.0 / Project LUCI Voice-first / wearable AI memory

    also in Voice-first / wearable AI memory · same storage (vector) · same retrieval (similarity) · same memory unit (episode) · also offered managed

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ? Compare with Friend →

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