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Associated Press
25-02-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
MEET SEEMOUR™, YOUR SMART HOME'S EVOLUTION TO INTELLIGENCE
Prompt AI Releases The World's First Home AI With Visual Intelligence SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Prompt AI, a pioneering visual intelligence research and technology company founded by leading scientists and pioneers of computer vision, today announced the availability of Seemour, the world's first visual intelligence platform. Seemour can understand, describe, and act on what it sees in real time when connected to a home camera. Seemour can summarize moments or hours of video footage, learn the names of family, friends, and pets, and even inform you which delivery service is at your door. Seemour is like if your home could talk, helping you feel safer and more connected to what's happening around you. Experience how Seemour can transform your home through visual intelligence. Download Seemour today for free from the App Store or visit for more information. Seemour's visual intelligence can reduce unnecessary camera notifications by as much as 70 percent. It harnesses the power of large vision-language models and machine learning to summarize multiple on-camera events into a single, easy-to-understand update. This intelligence also allows Seemour to review hours of footage and understand what's happening. In an upcoming update, users will soon be able to ask Seemour questions, saving time and gaining insight. 'Imagine a future where you can ask your home what happened today or inform your roommate that you've stepped out to go to the grocery store when they open the fridge,' said Tete Xiao, chief executive officer and co-founder of Prompt AI. 'That future is closer than you think, and we're excited to bring it to you.' Key features include: Intelligent Video Summaries. Get easy-to-read summaries of significant events captured by your cameras, saving you time and hassle, and never miss a moment. Personalized Notifications. Seemour learns and remembers familiar people, allowing you to label them for more personalized notifications. Specific Pet Notifications. Teach Seemour the names of all your dogs and/or cats, and Seemour can tell you which pet got into the trash. 70% Fewer Alerts. Stay informed without overload. Receive notifications only for the moments that matter, from familiar people and pets to potential intrusions. Suspicious Behavior Alerts. Seemour can instantly alert you if it sees unusual or suspicious activity, making your home safer and more secure. Delivery Service Announcements. Get instant notifications for who's at your door, whether it's FedEx, Amazon, or the mailman. Wildlife Detection. Capture and enjoy the beauty of nature with alerts for wildlife like birds, deer, or bears spotted on your property—helping you stay aware and connected to the world outside. Seamless Integration. See your camera feeds in one platform, with more integrations coming soon. Ask Seemour (coming soon). No need to review hours of footage just to know when something happened. Save time and gain insights by asking Seemour questions like, 'Where did I leave my keys?' or, 'When did my daughter leave home today?' Seemour reviews your camera footage, offering answers and highlights using naturally spoken language. Invisibility (coming soon). Seemour can remove individuals from video footage to protect their privacy. Custom Visual Alerts (coming soon). Get alerts when Seemour sees specific things like Fido digging in your backyard, even if it's never seen that before. Download Seemour for free today in the App Store to make your smart home smarter. Visit to learn more about our groundbreaking technology. About Prompt AI Prompt AI is a pioneering visual intelligence research and technology company based in San Francisco that aims to create human-centered, innovative, and useful products for everyone. It is co-founded by Tete Xiao and Seth Park, both of whom hold in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, and Trevor Darrell, a founder and co-leader of Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) lab, renowned for his significant contributions to the advancement of computer vision and AI research. Under their leadership, the company has raised $6M in seed led by prominent investors AIX Ventures and Abstract Ventures, with participation from several renowned angel investors. Learn more at
Yahoo
25-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
This AI Startup Promises to Erase People From Home Security Videos -- And Much More
You can find AI nearly everywhere today, and home security cameras are no exception thanks to the extensive AI video searches now offered by Google Gemini, Ring and many other brands. But startup Prompt AI and its Seemour platform (announced today) promise to go several steps further, into AI features I've never seen on a security cam before. Seemour's third-party AI focuses on visual intelligence, with training on things like objects and movement that allows it to analyze everything your home security cams are seeing. Most home security cameras can do this -- Arlo, for example, now allows you to label custom objects for AI identification -- but Seemour goes a step beyond. In addition to video summaries and personalized notifications about what it sees, Seemour touts a collection of much more unique tricks, notably the ability to learn your pets by name for more accurate notifications and the "coming soon" ability to recognize specific individuals and remove them from video footage, increasing their privacy around the home. Seemour's full promised list also includes other AI responses I haven't seen in home security systems before, such as specific notifications about wildlife, the ability to recognize and report a delivery (as opposed to just a package) and the ability to watch for suspicious human movement (a feature usually focused on commercial cams). Prompt AI also plans on giving the platform the ability to ask Seemour questions the same way Google Gemini currently operates, like, "Where did I put my keys?" And it's planning on incorporating specific activity alerts like a dog starting to dig a hole, something we've seen pet companies like Furbo experiment with as well. "Imagine a future where you can ask your home what happened today or inform your roommate that you've stepped out to go to the grocery store when they open the fridge," said Tete Xiao, chief executive officer and co-founder of Prompt AI. "That future is closer than you think, and we're excited to bring it to you." The Seemour app is currently available on the Apple Store (don't confuse it for a very different service) but hasn't yet come to Android. We'll make time to experiment with it ourselves and see how good the AI training is, but you can test it out yourself, too…with one caveat. It's difficult enough to trust a well-established security brand like Nest or Ring to analyze your video with AI, let alone a startup. Using Seemour is going to take some trust on your part as Prompt AI doesn't have much of a security track record yet and will need plenty of information on you and your pets, as well as access to your video feeds. It's also harder to ask consumer to adopt a third-party app for their videos than simply rely on what the security cam brand has already included, which is why I expect Seemour is probably aiming for eventual built-in integrations as well. That said, Seemour has an impressive list of potential capabilities, features I fully expect to come to other home security AIs in one form or another in the coming years. For now, Seemour seems to be first out of the gate for several of them, and I'll be keeping an eye on the service.
