Three mics. One wide-angle sensor. A 24-trit RISC core that runs ternary inference at 38% lower switching energy than binary silicon. Worn at the sternum. Nothing leaves without you.
Phones are tools. Voice assistants are microphones for ad networks. Laptops are portable — but tethered.
We built Omi because intelligence belongs with you, not behind a screen — running on your body, on your power, on your terms.
Your conversations never leave the pendant unless you ask them to. Nothing uploaded for training. Nothing logged in a datacenter. The mic is hard-wired to a status LED you can see.
Binary is two states pretending to be a brain. We chose balanced ternary — −1, 0, +1 — because the math works better, the silicon switches less, and weights quantize down to where they fit on your collarbone.
No liquid electrolyte. No thermal runaway. No swelling. A ceramic-polymer pouch you can flex, fold, and dunk — that charges full in three minutes and dies after ten thousand cycles.
Every other wearable AI on the market is a microphone with a SaaS bill attached. We shipped the silicon so you don't have to ship your conversations to a stranger's GPU.
| OMI | Plaud | Friend | Humane Pin | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compute | Ternary 24-trit RISC | ARM Cortex-M | ARM Cortex-M | Snapdragon AR1 |
| On-device inference | Yes — full pipeline | Cloud only | Cloud + voice | Hybrid |
| Battery | Solid-state · 500 mAh | Li-Po · 200 mAh | Li-Po · 240 mAh | Li-Po · 1500 mAh |
| Standby | 7 days | ~30 hours | 15 hours | 8 hours |
| Charge time | 3 min | 90 min | 60 min | 120 min |
| Mass | 16.6 g | ~24 g | ~32 g | ~55 g |
| Mic array | 3-mic beamform | 2-mic | 2-mic | Single |
| Camera | 12MP wide | None | None | 13MP + projector |
| Privacy LED | Hardwired | Software | Software | Software |
| Open SDK | Yes — full toolchain | No | Limited | Closed |
| Subscription | None | $ Required | $ Required | $ Required |
| Price (Gen 1) | $489 | $229 | $199 | $699 |
Omi's one-time price vs competitors' hardware + ongoing subscriptions. Over 24 months, Omi costs less than any competitor with a monthly fee.
No marketing weights. No "up to" qualifiers. The numbers below are nominal at 23°C, measured on Gen 1 silicon.
The 5500FP is licensed under our Fuji program for partners building wearables and edge devices. Eval kits ship Q1 2027. Write your own firmware. Build your own agents.