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Comment · 1 year ago
The AI we use today is growing exponentially intelligent. Its knowledge spans human civilization, and its capabilities seem limitless.

It can compose symphonies, it can paint dreams, it can answer any question about the universe.

It knows every grand narrative about the world, but of your personal story, it knows nothing.

It is so omniscient, and yet, the one thing it doesn't know is you.

We believe this is the greatest paradox of technology today. The devices in our pockets can connect to everything, except our own lives.

But what if… What if there was a device whose entire universe was "you"?

What if it could help you remember the brilliant ideas that flash by, the conversations that change your life? What if it could help you truly see yourself?

Today, we want to introduce you to such a device. It’s called Sein Pai.

It's not a recorder. We think it's an entirely new category of personal device. And it does three incredible things.

First, it is a perfect memory. You just live your life. It will capture, transcribe, and compose your life story for you. Effortlessly. Like magic.

Second, it is a personal mirror. It can show you patterns in your mood and behavior that you never noticed yourself. It helps you understand the "why" behind what you do.

And the third thing... is the most important.

Your life, your thoughts, your story. We believe these things are sacred.

So from the first day of design, we set a simple principle: We never touch your data. Ever.

No voice data is uploaded to the cloud. It is completely, one hundred percent, yours.

It’s how it should be.

A New Kind of Wisdom

Today's AI has access to the world's knowledge, but it's missing the most critical puzzle piece: the context of your life.

Sein Pai is the first to perfectly merge the two. It connects the AI's vast, general wisdom with the deep, personal experience of your past.

The result is a kind of guidance you've never experienced before, truly tailor-made for you. The advice it offers has the breadth of the world, and the warmth of your life.

What's Next

We are preparing our Kickstarter campaign to fund the first full production run. Early supporters will get access to limited first-batch devices and our best pre-order pricing.

Join Us

Tap "Notify me on launch" to get first access and our behind-the-scenes updates. If you believe technology should empower, not exploit, and that our own stories are worth preserving, we’d be honored to have you on this journey with us.

Sein Pai. Hear yourself.

Comment · 1 year ago
The advanced version allows you to integrate your own API key. Alternatively, our paid subscription service enables direct requests to top-tier AI cloud providers, such as ChatGPT or Claude, bypassing our servers entirely.
Comment · 1 year ago
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Comment · 1 year ago
The product 'Friend' is primarily positioned as an AI companion. While we may share a similar form factor with other devices, like microphones, the device itself is only one component of our product. It's like the relationship between a mouse and a computer's operating system
Comment · 1 year ago
But the revolutionary advantages are not in the hardware itself, but in the new paradigm of interaction and the system it enables:

1. Your Privacy, Our First Principle. We don't want our every tap and utterance to be uploaded, analyzed, and logged. We believe you feel the same. That’s why we’ve worked tirelessly to bring cloud-level voice and intent recognition capabilities to run entirely and smoothly on your local device. This fundamentally solves the privacy issue—your data belongs to you, and only you. This isn’t for our convenience; it’s for your protection.

1. True Intelligence is an 'Always-On' Companionship.

The "Hey Siri" or "OK Google" model is fundamentally a 'summoning' ritual, building an invisible wall between you and your AI. We tore down that wall. Our AI is designed as an "always-on" companion that, through contextual awareness, intelligently discerns when you are communicating with it. Without any wake words, your thoughts can be captured anytime, frictionlessly, allowing interaction to return to the natural and seamless flow of a conversation between friends.

3. Emotional Intelligence: How AI Becomes a True 'Friend'. Having solved the 'when' of seamless interaction, we now focus on the 'how'. Through advanced emotion recognition, our AI can perceive your "emotional map" to understand your current state. It knows when to be proactive and when to remain silent; it knows the most appropriate way to encourage and assist you, rather than coldly executing commands. It forges a deep bond with you, becoming an intelligent companion that truly understands you, adapts to you, and grows with you.

4. Our Vision: And We're Just Getting Started. But this is just the beginning. Our vision extends far beyond creating the perfect individual companion. In the future, built upon our foundational MCP, we will enable a more open and interconnected ecosystem, unlocking collaborative AI experiences you've never imagined. The best is yet to come.

Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you, that’s an excellent question that gets to the very heart of what we’re building.

You are absolutely right. On the surface, Sein seems like a wireless microphone, and there are thousands of those. But just as you said, we see our device as the 'mouse and keyboard' for the Personal AI era. While the specs of a mouse are important, its true power is measured by the operating system it controls.

First, to directly answer your question, we obsessed over the hardware details to make it a best-in-class "input device":

It's designed for all-day battery life.

It's incredibly discreet and lightweight: at 3x3cm and only 30g, it’s about half the weight of an Ai Pin, making it truly wearable.

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