Omi Sees Your Screen, Hears Your Day, Remembers Everything
BasedHardware shipped Omi Desktop v0.11.333 on April 18 and the repo just hit GitHub trending at 617 stars in a single day. Total stars now 10.4k. Open source AI memory layer that captures your screen, transcribes your conversations in real time, and pulls action items out of the noise.
What makes Omi interesting is the form factor spread. Same brain runs on a wearable, a desktop app, and a phone. They claim 300,000 professionals already use it. The desktop app is the new hotness because most people aren't ready to wear a pendant, but everyone has a laptop.
This is the third or fourth time we've seen the always-on personal memory pitch. What's different now is the stack actually works. Whisper-class transcription is cheap, summarization is good enough, and storage is basically free. The hard part was always what the agent does with all this context. Omi bets on extension personas and a conversational layer over your captured data.
Written in Dart, C, Python, Swift, TypeScript and Rust. The repo: https://github.com/BasedHardware/omi
Personal context is the next moat. Whoever gets to live in your earbuds and your laptop screen first owns the relationship. Open source means you can self host, which is the only sane way to put a microphone on your life.
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What makes Omi interesting is the form factor spread. Same brain runs on a wearable, a desktop app, and a phone. They claim 300,000 professionals already use it. The desktop app is the new hotness because most people aren't ready to wear a pendant, but everyone has a laptop.
This is the third or fourth time we've seen the always-on personal memory pitch. What's different now is the stack actually works. Whisper-class transcription is cheap, summarization is good enough, and storage is basically free. The hard part was always what the agent does with all this context. Omi bets on extension personas and a conversational layer over your captured data.
Written in Dart, C, Python, Swift, TypeScript and Rust. The repo: https://github.com/BasedHardware/omi
Personal context is the next moat. Whoever gets to live in your earbuds and your laptop screen first owns the relationship. Open source means you can self host, which is the only sane way to put a microphone on your life.
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