Former Google X employees come out of stealth with TwinMind, an AI app that hears and remembers everything about you

The new company has announced that it has secured than $3 million in funding and was most recently estimated to be worth, around $30 million.

The app TwinMind serves as an AI companion residing in your device and remains alert at all times to assist you with tasks and information retrieval.

Daniel George the CEO and founder of TwinMind mentioned that their company has secured than $2 million in funding this year through two rounds of investments with the most recent one valuing TwinMind at $30 million post investment worthiness value assessment. Some of the investors so far include Oracles chief AI scientist Dan Roth, co founding partner of Rocketship VC Anand Rajaraman and Michael Liou who was an early investor, in Robinhood and Zapier.

TwinMind is stepping into a market saturated with numerous chatbots competing for attention. According to Georges interview with Business Insider he believes that TwinMinds unique selling point lies in its ability to serve as an AI assistant that not learns but also stores user data, for future interactions.

Other AI helpers and online conversational programs like Gemini from Google and Chatbot, from OpenAI are getting better at remembering things. They still struggle with it quite a bit.

George mentioned to BI that if you had your Jarvis assistant at your disposal why would you turn to Google or seek answers, from Chat GPT instead?" George pointed out the limitations of tools by emphasizing that they fail to truly capture your essence or comprehend your unique experiences and struggles in life."

TwinMind operates as follows. It functions in the background of your phone constantly listening to inputs which are stored temporarily and converted into text for storage, in TwinMinds memory bank users can access the app to view a summary of their day segmented into significant events and moments.

You can also inquire about things from it well because TwinMind is acquiring knowledge about you. Your activities and the individuals you've interacted with throughout your day. With the goal of gathering all that data to enable you to converse with TwinMind in a manner that seems more organic and, without needing to provide extensive context.

The new company is introducing a web browser add on that can track and remember what websites users visit after getting their approval to do so.With connections to calendars and Gmail accounts in place well as the ability for users to ask TwinMind to compose emails for them.While this feature isn't unique, to TwinMind as other chatbots can do the thing the advantage it offers is its capability to recall all the users past interactions and information.

George remarked about heading into the task "Simply walk in and craft your marketing email with ease." He elaborated further; "It's like Grammarlys sibling. Not just fixing grammar but crafting content, from our shared experiences and background."

At Google X George was the scientist specializing in machine learning, for Wolverine. A hearing wearable project initially covered by Business Insider in 2021. The project has now evolved into a startup called Iyo.

When Chat GPT was introduced towards the end of 2022 George was collaborating at JPMorgan, alongside Tang who is a co founder and CTO of TwinMind and a former member of Google X.

He mentioned that they observed their coworkers utilizing the AI chatbot during meetings.The duo quickly put together a chatbot to record meetings and provide answers to queries about the discussions taking place.This concept eventually transformed itselfinto the startup named ThirdEar.However the team decided to rebrand it as TwinMind due to the unavailability of the ThirdEar domain name.George mentioned that they also felt that the name did not align with the components they were incorporating such, as the Chrome extension.

TwinMind primarily processes data on the phone itself switching to cloud services when answering queries or enhancing the AI experience at the users request.They provide a free app version and a $ 2 per month premium tier for those seeking access, to cutting edge language models.

Naturally there are some concerns about privacy raised by this situation According to George TwinMind is similar to assistants, like Siri or Alexa as it does not gather images but solely transcribes audio

The hardware aspect may turn out to be the remarkable achievement here.

George mentioned that the key breakthrough is finding a way to keep this device operational throughout the day while its in your pocket without causing a lot of battery drain and dealing with all of Apples restrictions and regulations, in their ecosystem."

He mentioned that they were able to solve the issue and asserted that the TwinMind application can operate continuously in the background for, up to 12 hours without draining the battery.

The team recently started their seed funding round with George mentioning their aim to secure a minimum of $5 million in investments.They are also discussing their strategies with potential investors that involve enhancing the integration of TwinMind into users’ daily lives by ensuring a smoother transition, between phone and desktop usage.

George mentioned that over initial testers have already given their feedback and the team plans to release the app on Product Hunt this week. Initially it will be accessible for iPhone devices and as a Chrome extension with versions, for Android and Mac set to debut year.

George confidently predicted that within a years everyone will possess a personalized AI companion well acquainted with their life details and equipped with access, to vast knowledge available online. A new means for people to retrieve information instead of relying solely upon Google.