亚马逊已收购名为Bee的AI穿戴设备初创公司，该公司生产一款售价50美元、具备AI功能的穿戴式麦克风。Bee设备可记录用户任务、习惯和关系数据，并通过手机App生成待办事项清单和每日总结。此次收购可能标志着亚马逊将AI助手拓展至便携式设备领域，但同时也引发了关于用户隐私的担忧，因为该设备设计为持续监听。尽管此前AI穿戴设备市场表现不佳，Bee的低价策略或能助其打开市场。

🌟 亚马逊收购Bee公司：Bee是一家开发AI穿戴设备的公司，其产品是一款售价50美元、集成了AI功能的穿戴式麦克风。此次收购标志着亚马逊可能将其AI助手业务扩展到智能音箱等固定设备之外的便携式领域。

👂 持续监听与数据收集：Bee设备的核心功能是“一直监听”（除非手动静音），并收集用户的任务、习惯和人际关系等数据。这些数据随后被用于在手机应用程序中为用户生成个性化的待办事项列表和每日活动总结。

🔒 隐私问题与数据安全：Bee设备的持续监听特性引发了对用户隐私的担忧。尽管Bee公司声称不存储音频数据，并允许用户删除个人数据，但鉴于亚马逊Echo设备近期停止本地存储以及Ring设备曾出现的隐私争议，用户对数据处理方式仍需关注。

🚀 市场潜力与竞争挑战：AI穿戴设备市场此前表现不佳，如Rabbit R1和Humane AI Pin等产品均未获得广泛成功。Bee以其较低的50美元价格定位，可能通过更具竞争力的成本优势，在这一新兴市场中获得一席之地，尽管整体市场仍面临挑战。

Amazon may have just found its own version of Fitbit.

Well, sort of, anyway, in the sense that it just bought a company that makes wearables for your wrist. That company is Bee, a startup that makes a $50 AI wearable. Bee co-founder and CEO Maria de Lourdes Zollo announced the acquisition in a post on LinkedIn this week, and Amazon confirmed the deal in a statement to TechCrunch, which noted that the deal is still being finalized. The terms of the deal are not yet public at the time of writing.

As of Wednesday, the Bee website included a statement that read, "Bee is joining Amazon! We’re incredibly grateful to our customers and community and we’re excited to continue our journey with you."

So, what the heck is Bee?

The startup makes a $50, screen-free, always-on, AI-powered wearable microphone that you can wear on your wrist or clip to your clothing. It looks a little like a Fitbit fitness tracker, except this wearable is always listening (unless you manually mute it) and collecting data on your tasks, habits, and relationships. Using this data, Bee can create to-do lists and daily summaries for you in a mobile app.

There are some interesting implications here. One is that Amazon might be looking into wearables and portable AI assistants, which until now have largely lived in Alexa-powered devices that are rooted at home. Another perhaps more important concern is that of privacy; these devices are always listening by design, making them potential privacy nightmares.

According to Bee's policies, the company doesn't store any audio data on servers and users can delete their personal data. Amazon's plans for Bee are unknown, but Echo devices recently stopped allowing for local storage, and Ring has a controversial history with privacy.

While big companies like Amazon and OpenAI are investing in AI devices, this product category has struggled to attract actual customers. Just think of high-profile failures like the Rabbit R1 and the Humane AI pin. Those devices both cost hundreds of dollars, while Bee's device is just $50, so maybe Bee can make headway where Rabbit and Humane could not. At any rate, Silicon Valley isn't done trying.

In a post on Linkedin, Zollo wrote, "Bee is joining Amazon and we couldn’t be more excited! When we started Bee, we imagined a world where AI is truly personal, where your life is understood and enhanced by technology that learns with you. What began as a dream with an incredible team and community now finds a new home at Amazon."