i.am+

i.am+[1] is an American technology company based in Los Angeles, California[2]. The company was founded by musician Will.i.am in 2013 with the mission of "creating wearable products that combine fashion and technology." In 2016, i.am+ acquired Israeli machine learning software company Sensiya, now known as over.ai.[3]

i.am+
IndustryConsumer electronics
Founded2013 (2013)
HeadquartersHollywood, California
OwnerWill.i.am
Subsidiaries

Wink

Websiteiamplus.com

Products

i.am+ camera for iPhone 4

In 2012 i.am+ announced a camera accessory for the iPhone 4. [4]

dial

dial is a SIM-enabled smartwatch currently available in the UK exclusively through Three. Featuring a voice-enabled AI named AneedA, the smartwatch is the first of its kind with a conversational operating system. The dial is also unique in that it does not need to be tethered to a smart phone and can send calls and SMS messages independently. Included with the dial is a music streaming service with over 20 million songs.

EPs

i.am+ EPs are high-end Bluetooth headphones. The circular form was supposedly designed to echo their namesake vinyl records. The EPs feature a woven fabric cable and a magnetic clip so they can be worn around the neck when not in use.

BUTTONS

The EPs were replaced with the 2nd generation of bluetooth headphones (now called i.am+ BUTTONS). i.am+ BUTTONS launched in November 2016. [5]

over.ai

In July 2016, i.am+ acquired Israeli company Sensiya, now over.ai, to continue research and development of their machine learning and natural language understanding technologies.[6]

Wink

In July 2017, i.am+ purchased Wink from Flex for $38.7M. [7]

Earin

In January 2018 i.am+ attempted to acquire Swedish earbuds startup Earin.[8] The acquisition later fell through for undisclosed reasons.[9]

Omega Voice Assistant

In October 2018, iam+ announced a new platform agnostic voice assistant called Omega.[10]

gollark: In relative or absolute terms?
gollark: If you're offloading all your complex real-time computing somewhere else, then currently that means you'll probably just burn away the power savings on running your device's 4G radios and have it randomly break when bandwidth drops low enough.
gollark: The nice thing about advancing technology is that it gets more feasible as time goes on.
gollark: There *are* dedicated "AI accelerators" on modern SoCs, too, maybe that could help.
gollark: And mobile processors tend to improve in efficiency as time goes on, and then the gains get used to just make the phones thinner and run more useless background services or something.

References
  1. Iam+. "i.am |". iamplus.com. Retrieved 2016-07-22.
  2. https://iamplus.com/contact/
  3. "Will.i.am's Smartwatch Startup Acquires Israeli Firm". Los Angeles Business Journal. Retrieved 2016-07-22.
  4. Georgia Dehn. "Will.i.am's iPhone accessories to 'turn smartphones into genius phones'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  5. "Bang & Olufsen's New Earphones Are Perfect for Working Out". 22 May 2019.
  6. "Will.i.am's Smartwatch Startup Acquires Israeli Firm | Los Angeles Business Journal". labusinessjournal.com. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  7. Ingrid Lunden. "i.am+ buys Wink, the smart home hub previously owned by Flextronics and Quirky". TechCrunch. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  8. "Wireless earbud startup Earin bought by Will.i.am's tech company". The Verge. 2018-10-08. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  9. "Will.i.am's acquisition of wireless earbud startup Earin has fallen through". The Verge. 2019-05-10. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  10. Figueroa, Mia (8 October 2018). "Will.i.am's Omega Voice Assistant Takes on Google, Alexa, and Siri". securitybaron.com. Retrieved 2018-11-07.
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