Snap Specs Intelligence is a new AI assistant that can connect other digital accounts to help with tasks such as work responsibilities and keeping track of travel information. Snap describes it as an anticipatory AI service that helps you manage what needs attention today, so you can make progress towards longer-term goals. As with other AI assistants, you can chat with it directly.
Specs Intelligence is being launched alongside Specs, Snap’s first consumer pair of augmented reality glasses. It is also available on iOS today in preview, and there is a waitlist for the full early-access experience coming to Mac. Snap would not say on the record how the preview differs from the full experience.
How Specs Intelligence works
According to Snap, Specs Intelligence builds an understanding of your goals, priorities, relationships and routines from the apps and tools you choose to connect. The service is designed to carry that personal context across devices and to deepen its understanding over time, helping you move between work, personal responsibilities and the things you care about.
The assistant is designed to anticipate when help would be useful and surface relevant information and actions without waiting for a prompt. Before a meeting, it could highlight decisions to make, questions to ask and things to remember. For an upcoming trip, it could bring together flight, hotel and dinner plans while flagging a work deadline that falls during the visit.
On the Specs AR glasses, the tool can pull personal content and place it directly into view when relevant, such as when you ask for a daily briefing before work. Specs Intelligence can connect to apps including Gmail and Slack.
Models and privacy
Specs Intelligence uses a proprietary combination of open-source models hosted in the US alongside local LLMs. Snap says it regularly updates the mixture of models as it continues iterating towards the best version of the service.
The company faces the challenge of needing users to trust it with their information and with data from connected services. Snap says it cannot view or access personal content used with Specs Intelligence, and that personal content from connected accounts will not be used to train or fine-tune Snap’s AI models, or to serve personalised ads. Specs Intelligence is similar in concept to AI assistants such as Meta’s Muse and Gemini’s Spark.
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