Bee is a personal AI that listens to conversations and turns salient details into summaries, to-dos, reminders, and insights, and is being expanded with two new devices: Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse. Bee Frontier is a lightweight wearable that can be worn on the wrist or clipped to clothing, offered in Lavender, Sage, and Onyx, with IP67 water resistance, dual microphones with noise filtering, USB‑C charging, and up to seven days of battery life. Bee Eclipse is a slim, credit‑card‑sized magnetic attachment for phones, available in Silver, Midnight, Honey, and Blush, and promises more than 21 days of battery life. Both devices feed conversation context into mobile and new desktop apps that provide templates for lectures, care plans, and brainstorms, surface action items, draft follow‑ups, create calendar invites, detect recurring themes, and connect with Gmail, Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple HealthKit, and Photos.
Privacy and integrations are central: on‑device Bee Private Compute processes audio in real time and deletes it afterward, encrypts transcripts with device‑controlled keys, requires participant permission for call recordings, and shows an LED when active. Bee can link to Alexa+ for hands‑free access to summaries and to Amazon.com to surface product mentions as shopping recommendations. Bee Frontier is available now for $74.99; Bee Eclipse will start at $99.99. All purchasers get 14‑day memory and basic summaries; Bee Pro ($11.99/month) adds unlimited recent summaries, third‑party integrations, suggested to‑dos, daily memories, a personal chat assistant, templates, and the desktop app, with a 30‑day trial for new users.
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