Brilliant Labs has announced the much-anticipated Frame AI smart glasses are now available globally for $349, with big upgrades also coming to its smart assistant and developer program.
The AI glasses have become one of the most anticipated wearables of 2024 after their reveal back in February, promising advanced AI features such as multimodal input inside a superlight 39g design.
Currently, orders for each color (black, white, and clear) all appear backed up on the Brilliant Labs site, with demand seemingly pushing shipments back a month even after ordering.
The Singapore startup notes that the price tag will remain in place until June, though it’s not yet clear what the price will jump to following this early bird offer.
Once Frame glasses begin making their way out to customers, they’ll also be doing so with plenty of upgrades from what we initially anticipated.
Brilliant Labs has stated its open-source integrated AI assistant, Noa, is now capable of fluid, two-way conversations with the wearer.
‘Wild Card Mode’ is also new, and will see Noa deliver everything from historical facts and news updates to recommendations based on the user location or what Frame is seeing.
When we spoke to co-founder and CEO Bobak Tavangar for the PULSE by Wareable podcast, one of the key takeaways was the company’s focus on creating open-sourced AI hardware.
It’s no surprise, then, to see plenty of developers jump on board since the open-source software and hardware code was made available in March.
Brilliant Labs says there are currently 8,000 members in its developer community – many of whom are building apps for Frame using Flutter – with use cases spanning agriculture, accessibility, healthcare, education, retail, gaming, and more.
Support for more large language models (LLMs) is also coming. The company is announcing that Antrhopic’s Claude 3, Llama 3, and Stable Diffusion will all work with Frame/Noa, which adds to the current crop of multimodal LLMs such as Perplexity, Whisper, and GPT-4o.
All told, the rollout of Frame is a major milestone for the company – and we think the decision to tilt the first generation towards developers is a sensible step. After all, we’ve already seen other hyped-up AI hardware such as the Rabbit R1 and Humane AI Pin flop in early reviews.
We’re hopeful the more established form factor – one that isn’t trying to replace your phone – and the relatively low price tag will stand Brilliant Labs in good stead, but stay tuned for our full test of the Frame over the coming month or two.
