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- Bee, owned by Amazon, launched two small devices that listen to conversations.
- The Bee Frontier costs $74.99; the Bee Eclipse, for phones, starts at $99.99.
- AI turns what they hear into summaries, reminders and to-dos, in Amazon’s cloud.
- Bee Pro costs $11.99 a month and can link Bee to Amazon shopping, if users opt in.
- Wearable
- A small electronic device worn on the body, for example on the wrist or clipped to clothing.
- Opt in
- To switch a feature on yourself; it stays off unless you choose it.
- Audit
- A check by an outside firm of whether a company’s system works as the company says.
Bee makes small devices that listen to conversations and let AI turn them into notes. Amazon bought the start-up in July 2025, CNBC reports. On October 15, Bee launched two new devices and a paid plan.
Two new devices
The Bee Frontier costs $74.99 and is on sale now at Amazon.com. It can be worn on the wrist or clipped to clothing. Amazon says it is water resistant to the IP67 standard and runs for up to 7 days on a charge.
The Bee Eclipse is about the size of a credit card and attaches to the back of a phone with magnets. It starts at $99.99 and will be available “soon”; Amazon gives no date. Amazon says its battery lasts more than 21 days.
Bee’s earlier device, the Pioneer, cost about $50, CNBC and Engadget report.
Amazon’s own pages of October 15; the privacy promises have not been tested by an outside review.
What the AI does, and what it costs
While switched on, the devices listen to conversations. Bee turns them into summaries, reminders and to-dos, and it can draft follow-up emails and calendar invites.
Summaries and 14 days of memory are free. Bee Pro costs $11.99 a month after 30 free days. It adds unlimited history, links to apps such as Gmail and Google Calendar, and a desktop app.
Bee Pro users can also connect Bee to Amazon.com and Alexa+. Products they mention in a conversation can then show up as suggestions on Amazon’s home page. Amazon stressed that both links are opt-in, Engadget reports.
People who bought a Pioneer before October 15 keep their current features for free, Bee says.
Privacy, in Amazon’s words
The AI does not run on the device. Amazon says the audio is turned into text in real time and then deleted. The text is processed in Amazon’s cloud, in a system it calls Bee Private Compute.
Amazon says that no one, including Amazon itself, can see the data. That is its own claim, backed by an audit it commissioned from the security firm Trail of Bits.
A button turns the devices on and off, and a light shows when they are on. For phone calls, the Eclipse prompts its user to ask the other people for permission each time a recording starts, Amazon says.
Engadget notes that the Eclipse looks like a phone battery pack. People nearby may not know that its light means it is listening.
Sources
Every fact in this story comes from the sources below. Open them to check our work.
- 1Primary source · October 15, 2026Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse: Introducing new AI wearable and phone attachment Amazon
- 2Primary source · September 23, 2026Bee Private Compute: How Bee keeps your conversations private Amazon
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- 4Research · October 15, 2026Amazon’s Bee launches two new personal AI devices, starting at $75 TechCrunch
- 5Research · October 15, 2026Bee unveils two AI note-taking devices, its first new products since being acquired by Amazon Engadget
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Prices and features come from Amazon’s own pages. The battery figures and the privacy promises are Amazon’s claims, and no independent review has tested the devices yet.
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