Omi
Wearable orb (necklace or clip) with open-source hardware + firmware. Continuous audio capture; real-time GPT-4o transcription; searchable memory graph. Supports app screen capture too. Hybrid privacy: cloud by default (SOC 2/HIPAA/AES-256), full local/self-hosted available under MIT.
Active · Verified 2026-10-22 · fresh as of 2026-10-22 · 57 cited facts, 5 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Open-source wearable orb + memory graph vendor fix
- Tier
- T1
- Section
- Voice-first / wearable AI memory
- Latest release
- v0.12.522+12522-macos (2026-10-22) repo fix
- Pricing
- Hardware-bundled third-party fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-22 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- open-source repo fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 119.56 (12-mo avg 36.89) · 504 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
Memory taxonomy
- storage
- graph
- retrieval
- graph-traversal
- persistence
- lifelong
- update
- append-only
- unit
- episode
- governance
- user-controllable
- conflict
- append
When to use
Optimised for: always-on capture + lifelog timeline + voice UX
Anti-fit: not for enterprise compliance-regulated environments without explicit consent flows
Pros & cons
Pros
Open-source hardware + firmware + cloud — only wearable lifelog with a fully inspectable stack; users can pick their LLM provider.
Cons
DIY-leaning — less polished than vendor-managed competitors; community support is the support model.
Claims & capabilities
Hardware $89. Entire stack open-source on GitHub (BasedHardware/omi). 24h+ continuous capture; users choose LLM provider.
Technical surface
- API surface
- searched not found
- Backend storage
- searched not found
- Deployment
- Both
- Embedding model
- searched not found
- Multi-tenancy
- searched not found
- MCP
- yes — repo ships an MCP server (mcp/ folder)
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- no — consumer product
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- Era Computer T5
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- Friend T1
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.
- Limitless T1
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- Memories.ai LVMM 2.0 / Project LUCI T2
Developer-first reference platform for AI wearables. LVMM 2.0 captures visual data through video, encodes it into frames on-device, and stores moments as searchable memories; companion app surfaces past conversations/decisions/experiences. Hardware-level security via Qualcomm partnership; cloud sync for enterprise tiers.
Sources (56 cited facts, 5 third-party)
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- What it is Open-source wearable orb + memory graph vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Wearable orb (necklace or clip) with open-source hardware + firmware. Continuous audio c… vendor
- Claims / benefits Hardware $89. Entire stack open-source on GitHub (BasedHardware/omi). 24h+ continuous ca… vendor
- Modalities voice vendor
- Created 2024-03 vendor
- Latest release v0.12.522+12522-macos (2026-10-22) repo
- License MIT repo
- GitHub BasedHardware/omi — ~13.2k stars, last commit 2026-10 repo
- Mindshare 1 press third-party
- Funding $2M seed (Jan 2025; Draper Associates, 468 Capital; prior $700K bootstrapped) vendor
- Customers / scale 1-10 ppl Open-source wearable, consumer, no named enterprise customers, $2M seed vendor
- Pricing Hardware-bundled third-party
- Compliance SOC 2 + HIPAA compliant (achieved 2025 via Delve); GDPR and ISO 27001 certifications upc… vendor
- Data handling All data encrypted in transit and at rest; hybrid: cloud by default; full local/self-hos… vendor
- Deployment Both repo
- HQ US third-party
- Founders / pedigree Thiel Fellow founder Nik Shevchenko; co-founder Joan Cabezas third-party
- Memory volume / scale no scale claim (lifelong capture) repo
- Versioning immutable append-log vendor
- Tombstoning append-only no delete vendor
- Schema evolution schema with migration vendor
- Namespace primitives per-user vendor
- Contradiction handling always append (no resolution) vendor
- Forgetting policy consolidation/summarization vendor
- MCP support yes — repo ships an MCP server (mcp/ folder) repo
- OTel no — consumer product vendor
- Webhooks / events webhooks supported (developer API) vendor
- Import / export JSON via API; OmiFS file system exposes conversations/memories vendor
- Validated verticals consumer / individual (voice + wearable users) vendor
- Time to running <1day (purchase hardware + pair) or <10min (software-only meeting bots) vendor
- Anti-fit not for enterprise compliance-regulated environments without explicit consent flows vendor
- Optimised for always-on capture + lifelog timeline + voice UX vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure self-contained device + cloud back-end vendor
- Pros Open-source hardware + firmware + cloud — only wearable lifelog with a fully inspectable… vendor
- Cons DIY-leaning — less polished than vendor-managed competitors; community support is the su… vendor
- Project & sources omi.me GitHub BasedHardware/omi product page vendor
- cost-token-budget no vendor
- cost-prompt-caching no vendor
- cost-semantic-caching no vendor
- cost-batching no vendor
- cost-model-routing no vendor
- cost-streaming-only no vendor
- cost-observability-cost-attribution no vendor
- eval-langsmith-evals no vendor
- eval-braintrust no vendor
- eval-weights-and-biases-agent no vendor
- eval-helicone-evals no vendor
- eval-custom-test-harness no vendor
- eval-human-loop no vendor
- eval-production-traffic-replay no vendor
- commit-trajectory [{"ym":"2026-04","cum":18291},{"ym":"2026-05","cum":18759}] repo
- architecture-deployment-locus hybrid vendor
- licensing-bucket open-source repo
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":2175.61,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":36.89,"openrank_current":119.56,"p… third-party
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