Vibe launches Dot, a wearable AI device for capturing real-world workplace conversations

Vibe Inc., the creator of a contextual artificial intelligence workspace platform that handles real-world meetings, introduced a wearable device today that brings an AI assistant to professionals wherever they happen to be.

The device, Vibe Dot, captures spoken conversations and voice commands in real time, syncing everything with the company’s Vibe AI app as a central knowledge hub. Conversations are stored as structured summaries that contribute to institutional memory, while voice commands can be sent to connected agents that can then take action.

“We believe that still 40% of all meetings happen in the physical world where there’s no Slack and no Google Meet,” founder and Chief Executive Charles Yang told SiliconANGLE in an interview.

As a form factor, the Dot’s round disk is slightly larger than most competitors, just smaller than the palm of a hand, but it’s also extremely thin and attaches nicely to a lapel or to the back of a cellphone using MagSafe to iPhones or a magnetic ring for Android. The device was built with five microphones, with up to 16 feet of listening range, allowing it to capture complex, multi-person conversations, not just one-on-one exchanges.

The size allows it to house a significant battery, which permits a run time of about 30 hours of continuous recording. This permits users to set it and forget it for recording when it hears a human voice, allowing them to have it listen in and transcribe conversations or listen for trigger words. Alternatively, users can use a button on the device to long-press for voice memos or commands, double-click to trigger recordings, or single-click to capture key moments.

Although the device comes with a subscription to the company’s service, which backs up and organizes notes from recorded conversations, it does not trap users in Vibe’s AI ecosystem. Customers can bring their own AI agents to Vibe for offloading tasks, such as Anthropic PBC’s Claude Code or OpenAI’s Codex, for voice-triggered task execution.

“We are focused on teams. We are focused on enterprise,” Yang said. “We focused on real B to B workflow, instead of trying to bring another wearable, fancy consumer product in the market.”

The release of Dot builds on the company’s earlier launch of Vibe Bot, an in-room AI device designed to sit in meetings, capture audio passively, organize decisions and next steps and connect meeting context to enterprise tools. Vibe Bot also includes voice interaction capabilities, allowing users to ask questions about what was said in a meeting or trigger agentic AI-driven actions through spoken commands.

The smaller form factor also pushes Vibe’s strategy beyond the meeting room and into the places where business conversations often happen without a formal video call or collaboration app attached. Yang said the design was intentional, calling Dot “not too big and also not too small,” and argued that Vibe is focused on capturing work that happens in the physical world, from hallways and meeting rooms to field work and client-facing industries.

Vibe Dot is available for preorder now for $199 and the company said its core features are free without a subscription. A Pro subscription is available for users who run out of monthly transcription minutes or want extra agentic automation tokens for $19 per month per user, with higher tiers available for larger teams with more aggressive needs.

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