Most AI assistants forget you the moment a chat ends. Memories.ai, the startup behind a personal AI called Luci, wants to change that by giving the assistant a memory of your actual day, and it says that memory can now live on Snapdragon-powered phones, PCs and smart glasses without leaving the device.
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One memory across your devices
Announced at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit, the update extends Luci from the desktop to the devices you carry. A moment captured on smart glasses, a note taken on your phone and a document opened on your PC all become part of one continuous memory that you can search from any of them. Luci is already available as a free desktop app for Mac and Windows that remembers your screen and meetings, which is where the company first proved the idea.
"The Snapdragon processors allow Luci to understand and remember privately, on the device itself," said Shawn Shen, founder of Memories.ai, whose team includes researchers from Meta and Cambridge.
How it stays on the device
Memories.ai says the heavy work happens once, at the moment of capture. A model it calls OmniCaptioner turns what a device sees and hears into a short, structured description of the moment, and a second, OmniRetriever, indexes those descriptions into a searchable personal memory. Because everything after capture is lightweight, the indexing, searching and answering can run on the Qualcomm Hexagon NPU, using models in the hundreds of millions of parameters rather than billions. The company says a full day of memory fits in a couple of gigabytes and the index never leaves your device, with the cloud used only to connect context between devices, not to store or process your personal content.
Qualcomm backs the approach. Vinesh Sukumar, vice president of product management at Qualcomm Technologies, said Luci shows how on-device AI can understand context and help "while keeping personal data under a user's control."
The questions it raises
A memory of everything you see is useful, and it is also sensitive. Keeping the data on the device answers part of the worry, but not all of it. Glasses that remember a conversation also capture the people in it, who never agreed to be part of your memory, a gap we explored in Meta smart glasses and Malaysia's missing voyeur law. Memories.ai has not said which phones, PCs or glasses will support Luci first, what it will cost on each, or when it reaches Malaysia.
What it means for you
Malaysians have taken quickly to AI assistants, and the market is shifting fast, as our look at ChatGPT falling below 50% share showed. The next contest is likely to be over which assistant knows you best. Luci's bet is that the winner will be the one that remembers your life without sending it to someone else's servers. For now, the desktop app is the version you can try today. Full details are on Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit announcement.
