Brilliant Labs is a

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-based technology company that produces open source eyewear featuring artificial intelligence (AI). Brilliant Labs was founded in 2019 in Hong Kong by Bobak Tavangar, a former

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program lead. Tavangar said he saw the potential for integrating the capabilities of

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into glasses to give consumers "visual superpowers." The goal was to use an

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platform for development that would allow for creators to access the company's code and create new apps for devices. In January 2024, the company introduced its first product, Frame, which were glasses that looked similar to those worn by

co-founder

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. They were designed to be indistinguishable from regular eyeglasses and would be worn by those who wore prescription lenses. The glasses were enabled for audio with a voice assistant called Noa and featured an AI search engine called

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. They came at a time when other companies introduced similar products, like AI Pin from Humane, R1 from Rabbit, or

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, and came after other products, like

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did not gain traction. Prior to this, the company offered the Monocle, an augmented reality (AR) lens that attached to traditional glasses, and which also used open source software.

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