The present flooring of CES 2026 are awash with AI-powered notetaking and companion units that take heed to every little thing round you so you’ll be able to return and have a pc bear in mind a dialog you simply had. The parents at Thine suppose any person else already bought the {hardware} proper, and all they should offer you is the app.
Pratyush Rai, the CEO of Thine, mentioned in an interview that he determined to create an app for Apple’s iPhone as a result of the capabilities he would’ve wanted to create a tool, like a pin, a ring or a necklace, already existed within the telephone’s microphone and Siri capabilities.
“What now we have realized is we must always not attempt to clear up an issue each from a {hardware} standpoint and a privateness standpoint that Apple has already solved for,” he mentioned.
The iPhone streams stay audio whereas it waits so that you can say “Hey Siri,” and Thine makes use of that very same perform to seize and transcribe the conversations you’ve. Its microphone additionally has superb noise cancellation — one thing a brand new {hardware} firm must work to excellent by itself.
From there, Thine takes over, coaching an AI mannequin on these transcripts so you’ll be able to ask questions like, “What did that AI govt inform me the opposite day at CES?” It’s going to reply like a typical chatbot would, with a abstract of that dialog. At CES, I watched as Rai requested Thine to recall the dialog we first had concerning the app two weeks earlier, and it supplied correct and fairly thorough highlights.
Rai mentioned Thine would not retailer the audio recordings of your conversations. The precise transcripts aren’t obtainable proper now, however the firm is engaged on a brand new model that may present these transcripts and permit you to add them into your personal chatbot, sort of like in the event you ran the Voice Memos app on a regular basis and simply stored the transcriptions. Rai mentioned the choice to permit folks to entry verbatim transcripts got here after suggestions from customers of competing AI notetaking units, who mentioned they actually wished the precise transcriptions.
For now, a totally practical Thine app is an costly subscription: $200 monthly. Rai mentioned the target market is executives and tech founders who need to hold monitor of all of their networking conversations. However he expects costs to return down considerably with scale, together with because the AI fashions and software program enhance. Already, he mentioned, these enhancements enable the corporate to organize the model that simply presents transcriptions for round a greenback a month.
The massive expense stays long-term storage — and conserving it safe. Rai mentioned having these previous conversations accessible by the AI mannequin is crucial to scale back hallucinations, when AI makes stuff as much as fill the gaps in its context. If you’re making an attempt to recall conversations you really had with actual folks, you do not need the AI’s greatest guess at what you talked about. You want the reality.
Having the ability to get that’s key to Rai’s objective of making an AI software that helps you’ve higher connections not with the chatbot, however with different folks. He would not need folks to construct relationships with Thine, however with one another. “This isn’t one thing we ever think about with Thine,” he mentioned.
